Time's Up In Tennessee
January 6th 2011 16:01
It was a spectacle for all to see, admire, and drop their jaws to. I remember it as maybe the best college football game I've ever watched, and I think many would agree. Texas and Southern Cal, January 4th, 2006. With the national championship on the line and already having a super-natural type of game, there he was, trotting into the endzone, making a situation and a play so tough, look so, so very easy. At that moment, Vince Young was on top of the world.
Flash-forward just over 5 years later, and here we are, contemplating if this Vince Young, once considered to be a player that would change the game forevor, will ever start in the NFL again. He was going to be Randall Cunningham and Michael Vick combined. He was going to finally take Tennessee to the promise land of lifting the Lombardi Trophy. Those hopes have long-sinced vanished.
Owner Bud Adams finally came to the reality that Young was not part of the future plans of the team, something the rest of the organization had already long determined. Seemed like when "VY" would start doing things right, for one reason or another, he would fall back and Kerry Collins would enter in his place.
From a fight in a strip club, to throwing his shoulder pads into the stands, to injury problems (darn Madden curse), Young could never quite get things going his way. Bad decisions and a mix of bad luck, finally all added up against him. Even with the injuries that plagued Young, the majority of his troubles weren't with what happened to his body, but more of what he did with his head.
Beside the club and pad incidents, we all remember when Young went "missing" after he was booed off the field in a 2008 game against Jacksonville. His agent said the story had been "blown out of proportion", but either way, the damage had been done. And Young is the one who's done.
Do I think Young can play quarterback in the NFL still? I think so. He's a great athlete, and a decent thrower. The questions are now poring in, asking what team Young would fit with. San Francisco? Maybe Washington? How about Arizona? There's teams out there that are willing to take a chance on him.
So where does Tennessee go from here? Carson Palmer and Vick may be on the market, or there's always the draft. As for Young, he will be remembered as a failed experiment in Nashville, one that Jeff Fisher didn't even want, but was forced to draft him by Adams. It almost, and still may, cost him his job.
In the end I think VY will find a place somewhere, most likely in Arizona, because they probably have the worst QB's. But here's to Vince Young, one of the best QB's...that never was. Atleast not in the NFL. Oh, how much he probably wishes he could go back 5 years.
Flash-forward just over 5 years later, and here we are, contemplating if this Vince Young, once considered to be a player that would change the game forevor, will ever start in the NFL again. He was going to be Randall Cunningham and Michael Vick combined. He was going to finally take Tennessee to the promise land of lifting the Lombardi Trophy. Those hopes have long-sinced vanished.
Owner Bud Adams finally came to the reality that Young was not part of the future plans of the team, something the rest of the organization had already long determined. Seemed like when "VY" would start doing things right, for one reason or another, he would fall back and Kerry Collins would enter in his place.
From a fight in a strip club, to throwing his shoulder pads into the stands, to injury problems (darn Madden curse), Young could never quite get things going his way. Bad decisions and a mix of bad luck, finally all added up against him. Even with the injuries that plagued Young, the majority of his troubles weren't with what happened to his body, but more of what he did with his head.
Beside the club and pad incidents, we all remember when Young went "missing" after he was booed off the field in a 2008 game against Jacksonville. His agent said the story had been "blown out of proportion", but either way, the damage had been done. And Young is the one who's done.
Do I think Young can play quarterback in the NFL still? I think so. He's a great athlete, and a decent thrower. The questions are now poring in, asking what team Young would fit with. San Francisco? Maybe Washington? How about Arizona? There's teams out there that are willing to take a chance on him.
So where does Tennessee go from here? Carson Palmer and Vick may be on the market, or there's always the draft. As for Young, he will be remembered as a failed experiment in Nashville, one that Jeff Fisher didn't even want, but was forced to draft him by Adams. It almost, and still may, cost him his job.
In the end I think VY will find a place somewhere, most likely in Arizona, because they probably have the worst QB's. But here's to Vince Young, one of the best QB's...that never was. Atleast not in the NFL. Oh, how much he probably wishes he could go back 5 years.
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