The Titans may be 12-1, but if you're Vince Young, it wouldn't surprising if you wished that 2008 had just never happened.He lost his starting job to Kerry Collins, police tried to track him down after team officials thought he was in danger of commiting suicide, he's been called a "soft baby," and his desire to play football has been questioned. But while Young may have lost some of the respect of his teammates, Titans owner Bud Adams is still a VY believer, as he told the Tennessean.
"He is a young guy and he is learning. He is still growing up,'' Adams said Tuesday during a visit in his penthouse office. "Vince is under contract for three more years, so he is not going anywhere. I just think he is going through a lot of different things right now. In his first year he went to the Pro Bowl, then took us into the playoffs the next year. And then at the start of this season he got booed and was injured, and it was just too much to take. But he has gotten over that and we've talked. I think he's doing a great job working as the No. 2 guy behind Kerry, but he'll get another chance.''
It's hard to believe what Adams saying is likely to happen. After leading the Titans to the best record in the NFL, it makes sense that the Titans would give Collins a new contract and the starting job for 2009 barring a complete collapse over the next couple of weeks. And if that's true, it's hard to imagine Young being happy to sit on the bench, when someone, somewhere would be likely to give him a chance at the starting job.
Maybe Adams is right. Maybe the Titans and Young will have a patience that most NFL teams and players don't have. But it's hard to believe it.
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12-14-2008 @ 6:06PM
CJ said...
I think he deserves another chance, no doubt about it. I think some of the crap he's been handed is just the majority of people who give the Titans a second glance and look at them as nobodies, but he shut them up his rookie year. He hasnt done anything to show he should be scrapped as Pacman Jones. People do need to learn patience, it's a virtue.
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12-14-2008 @ 6:47PM
johnny said...
vibce young has suffered enough.the media espn etc has criticized him enough.if he was jay cutler,brett fave or some other white quaterback you would not have all of this critizing.i think that it has a lot to do wilth race.remember his rookie year he did took his team to the playoffs what did cutler do
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12-14-2008 @ 8:05PM
CJ said...
Hey, johnny, Vince Young didnt take the Titans to the playoffs his rookie year, he was one game away and lost to the Patriots, it was last season before we went. But i agree, Jay Cutler is a joke and i still believe that the Titans got the best pick at QB in VY's draft year and made a wise choice in taking him instead of Cutler and Matt Leinhart.
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12-17-2008 @ 1:09PM
terrance calhoun said...
yes i agree i think vy is a good qb and desrves a chance i find it upsetting when i heard one or more of espn sports the person was the guy who was a rb for pittburgh stellers he hate vy he said vince didnt want the position because he isnt making any noise in the locker room now vy is being smart shut up be a team player but if he acts out then he would be call trouble maker i thank vy for being wise and cutler have done nothing and he has better recievers so what does that tell u any thing short of a playoff cutler is a failure bt this goes back to what donovan has said blk qbs are judge different if titans decide to move on i hope vy gets with a goo coach who will put a good team around him id like to see him in kansas city they are young and need a qb and im glad to see some one no how to see the vy situation
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