But you’re right, there’s not much difference. Collins is a decent game-managing QB who is well past his best days, and it is curious that many Titans fans want to put the label “great” on him. “Good” is even pushing it.

The problem I have with Vince talking is twofold: 1) He said he wasn’t going to and 2) He’s just bad with words. He said he knew he couldn’t win with the media (he’s right) and spoke anyway, and the media predictably tried to twist his other interview into him demanding a trade. Obviously, to anyone who actually bothered to listen to the interview closely, he said no such thing, which he clarifies in this interview. It’s certainly not his fault there are people in the media who apparently despise him and that the slow offseason news leads the sensationalist folks at SI or ESPN to jump all over little tidbits, but either he needs to get a coach for these things or he needs to avoid them right now. He’s not helping himself.

That being said, the interview above is much better, but even then, don’t be surprised if people try to use this against him too.

What’s most bothersome to me is that even Titans fans seem to be pretending that he straight lost his job to Collins rather than via injury. We have no body of work to judge Vince on for his third season, yet people are saying that his third season was a complete failure. In that regard, I hope he backs up his claims and he proves all these people wrong. Nobody doubts his talent. What people are doubting is his ability to adapt and his heart. However, the way he needs to prove it is on the field, every single day in practice. Fisher can be loyal to a fault, but if VY is so obviously better than Collins every single week, he cannot justify starting Kerry over him.

so here’s some nonsense.

Vince’s speaking out is probably not that much of an issue for people involved in the NFL. I’d bet that the media’s play w/ his interview is for fans & the public in general, & that those who are a part of the NFL, if they care at all, are probably thinking more along the lines of, “Man! That dude’s got to stay out of the media. All they do is play with him.” Anybody who’s asked that line of questioning & doesn’t respond w/ an expression of a desire to not be a career backup is pretty much done. This is just another part of sports reporting’s growing gossip column.

My fear for Vince is based in fear. Coaches’ fear. Their fear for their job. If Vince can’t regain the starting spot in Tennessee & ends up getting cut, I really worry about his career. Somebody would pick him up as a backup, I’m sure, but I think he’d essentially have to luck into a good enough situation (possibly through injury) to ever re-emerge. Coaches, it seems to me, in the NFL are much more oriented toward finding players that suit their scheme than getting the most out of the players they have or that may be available to them, & I don’t think Vince has proven himself to be anybody’s prototype. The lifespan of the NFL coach has been reduced to a point that I believe many of them get conservative, in many ways, to a point of almost having blinders. If you don’t fit the model they have in their head about what they want done w/ their team, or if you don’t at least fill an immediate need, then they’re probably not going to change their mind about how they would like things run because they don’t want to get fired for what the result is on the field while trying to work w/ a new idea or player. Who wants to get fired for a product that was never their true intention? Vince’s decision making & ability to make the correct throws obviously needs to be proven better, I just worry that he may never be given the same opportunity he’s presented w/ in Tennessee. Collins is nearly 40, & there are no other alternatives to this point. Just keep working Vince. My bet is that he still ends up the starter there. McNair developed w/ Fisher as head coach. So can Vince.

…….they said Vince had said in an interview (I just missed it being played) that (paraphrasing) he hadn’t even been told what it would take to win the starting job. As the guys on TheZone said, how about play better than Kerry Collins.

If he wants to play, then he better play better football. Losing 30lbs wouldn’t hurt his play either.