Browns quarterback Jake Delhomme has attributed his struggles with the Panthers last season to the playoff defeat the team suffered at the hands of the Cardinals in January 2009. "Awful, last year was awful," Delhomme said. "There's no other way to put it. I was awful. There's no sweeping it under the rug. I didn't play well, I played awful. But I put pressure on myself. When we lost in the playoff game [to the Cardinals in January 2009] and I didn't play well at all, my whole focus and goal was to get back and play well. "Then, in the first game of the season, one of my first few passes gets tipped, tipped and picked and it's like, 'Don't make another mistake, don't make another mistake' and I played that way the whole season. That's just something you can't do. You never, ever can play that way and I've never done that. I just put so much on myself. 'I gotta play good, I gotta play good' and when you're so tight like that, it's just worse." Delhomme, who landed in Cleveland this offseason, threw 18 interceptions in just 11 games for Carolina in 2009.