Fox won’t commit to Delhomme

Carolina Panthers head coach John Fox was non-committal on Monday as far as who would start at QB for him next week.

“I don’t know that and even if I did I probably wouldn’t announce it quite yet,” Fox said, per Steve Reed of CarolinaGrowl.com. “We’ll evaluate it and see who gives us the best chance heading out to Arizona… We’ll do whatever it takes for us to start developing some confidence in the (passing) game, whether that is staying the same or making a change or if there’s a viable option or not, those are all things we’re evaluate just like we do at all positions. Sometimes it’s a matter of executing better like our run game was a couple of weeks ago.”

Delhomme is 32nd in the NFL in passer rating, which some experts would consider a bad thing. He is on pace to throw a whopping 35 INT’s this season. Re-read that. Yeah, it’s bad. And they gave this guy a new contract in the offseason! We thought the economy was supposed to be bad. How can you afford to give a bad employee a lot of money?

Fox did have some positive things to say about Delhomme.

“I still believe Jake is our best quarterback. I would have no reason to believe otherwise. Truth be told. But collectively we’ll do whatever it takes for us to improve. What that is I can’t honestly tell you this second. That is the best I can answer it.”

Expect Matt Moore and A.J. Feeley to get more reps. John Fox’s job ain’t exactly secure and he can’t afford to keep losing games.