Vince Young Injured, Out As Starting Quarterback

Wouldn’t be surprised if the Cowboys pick him up next year because of the UT connection. Dude still has some issues and needs to grow up. All VY does is win pout.

Close to unforgivable.

I’ve got 2 boys. I can no longer speak highly of Vince to them because of this embarrassing behavior. While I don’t depend on athletes to serve as role models for my sons, it sure would be nice if I didn’t have to do the opposite – telling my kids that these supposed heroes on the field are terrible examples.

So disappointed in Vince, whom I once admired so greatly.

Chris Simms looks to be the replacement for VY.

and I loved warren moon. My blood also happens to bleed the purtiest shade of burnt orange, and when VY came to nashville I was stoked. Since he’s been here, its been bumpy and this really is the last straw. It was obvious that fish didn’t want vy from the beginning and I think that he has made some questionable decisions because vy has made great strides parts of this and earlier seasons…but this baby like attitutde had to stop, and the only way it will is if fisher or vy leave, and I think it’s obvious who is leaving.

…youve been great and shown an amazing ability to come back from adversity. But I also would have hoped this would have given you some poise, some maturity of how to deal with issues, publicly or privately.
But it seems things have not really changed. I would hope that things only get better for you…

should have come back for his senior year. Would have had a year more of maturity, would likely have gone to a different team. I believe this would have made all the difference in the world.

I loved him at Texas, but that ended when he went to the NFL.

is that outside of blogs like this, VY has lost in the court of public opinion. I think that this is an incredibly complex situation with facets that we common folk on the outside will likely never know, and there is likely blame to be put on both (or more) parties involved. Unfortunately, though, Jeff Fisher is a media darling. He has the respect of all the talking heads and so called experts who are inevitably going to side with him immediately. Vince is going to get chastised (rightfully or wrongfully) by the media and will be labeled as a crybaby and immature. He will be declared the source of the problem without any inkling that Fisher might be partly or wholly to blame for the situation. I think the only chance Vince has now is to get out of Tennessee where he can start fresh. If things don’t improve then, then we all know that Fisher isn’t crazy, but if it does, hopefully people will rethink their opinions

VY needs to get out of there and come back to Houston or Dallas. Bud Adams is one of the worst owners in the league, and Jeff Fisher has treated VY like crap. This was always a bad fit.
I do not like VY’s behavior, from walking out on his team to fighting in late night stripclubs. He needs to grow up already. He has had his chances, and he needs to learn how to deal with adversity better. The NFL should definitely send him to mandatory anger management classes to help him stop making an ass out of himself.

Ability/Excitment of Mike Vick, temperment/maturity of Jeff George.

what an immature puss. everything came easy for him in college now that he has to work hard and playing against the best the first sign of adversity he pouts like a bitch. if you can’t handle getting booed from the crowd you don’t deserve to be in the league. he’s shown he’s weak, disappearing with a gun after he got booed, fighting in a strip club cause he can’t handle a little shit talk and now throwing his pads in the crowd. might be a good athlete but sucks as a person.

Under Fisher’s “coaching”, he was a bronco being forced to give rides to kids at a birthday party. The man MUST BE TURNED LOOSE. He was never going to work in Fisher’s bullshit conservative scheme.

Jeff Fisher played and coached at USC. That explains a lot of his behavior, IMO.

Almost all Trojans have a vendetta against the Longhorns, and especially Vince Young, after he “stole” the 2005 BCS Title from their self-righteous minds.

and VY did want to go back in the game. He was wearing his helmet and very upset on the sidelines.

BUT both the press and Fisher do such a good job of twisting the story!!

I wouldn’t waste your time posting anything as their ignorance over there is like talking to a brick wall. I get the impression that Titans fans don’t want VY on their team, and I would imagine that VY quit playing for the fans there a long long time ago.

The fanbase in Tennessee is classless and the bloggers are even worse. What VY did after the game was immature but Tennessee fans have been ready to shit all over his name for a long time now. Have fun with Randy Moss and Rusty Smith. What a joke this entire organization has become. Jeff Fisher is a .500 coach that always seems to keep his job even though they haven’t won a playoff game in 7 YEARS! Although VY has drawn negative attention to himself by his actions after the game, his game play against Washington did not lose them the game. The playcalling and the terrible defense lost them the game.

VY was 7/7 in his first few passes that game… 8/11 for the first half. For the game (until 3rd quarter, when his thumb got injured), he was 13/16 with a 107.6 rating.

Fans were booing playcalling/Moss, not VY, but the media and Fisher are so good at spinning the story!! If anything, the fans were upset that VY had to come out of the game. They were booing the playcalling, Moss (not getting thrown to nor open enough), defense, VY getting injured, or VY leaving. What yall think?

And he will get it, given all the crap teams are trotting out at quarterback.

While he acted in a childish manner, NFL fans regularly forgive much worse.

and has had trouble dealing with adversity in the NFL. Not exactly a new concept for Texas players in the NFL. The other week there was a Tennessee news reporter asking what the heck the people in Austin did to him, b/c he is completely incapable of handling any kind of criticism. Young was lucky to be drafted by a team that has almost always had a strong running game and defense. In how many games that he won, did he throw for over 200 yards? His record was inflated b/c the team he played on hid his deficiencies. Fisher finally got fed up with his immature behavior and is moving on. The guys career is going to mirror Ricky Williams’ IMO. A few moments of brilliance in the midst of bizarre behavior and overall average results.

Besides politics which started back in 2006 (Texas vs USC) and now way beyond repair here, another problem is a mismatch in philosophies.

Fisher is a defensive-minded coach with a conservative approach to the game. VY is a good passer with accuracy better than people who don’t watch him realize, but his biggest asset is obviously his ability to also run. Hence why the Titans have used the option play with some success, but they may be reigning him in too much with restrictive playcalls.

VY would do even better in a system where he has more freedom to improvise at the QB position (like P.Manning does). Granted, VY isn’t at Manning’s level in QB acumen (few QBs are), but he has improved via film study. VY is a dual-threat with a good arm, and a beast of an athlete. He needs to play for a coach who will allow his full potential to be unleashed.

Good analogy from a fellow peep on ESPN.com:

“Hitching Vince Young to Jeff Fisher is like hitching a champion racehorse to a field plow. Bad for the champion racehorse and bad for the potato farmer.”

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If the man comes on the facility and you throw him off of it [or you had the ASSISTANT do it, actually], how in the hell is he going to be able to apologize to you face to face? Fisher should be fired for acting like a bit-h.

VY offered an olive branch and Fisher shoved it in his face [no, IN PUBLIC, actually]. He has no class whatsoever.

If Fisher can call VY out on texting an apology, then Fisher needs to be called out by not being a “man” and telling Vince man-to-man that he doesn’t accept his apology. Instead he goes into a press conference and makes it a matter of public record. Besides, how could Vince Young apologize in person if he isn’t allowed at team facilities?

Fisher tells McNair he has been traded by locking him out of the facilities when Steve showed for work. Fisher didnt call McNair, didnt email him, didnt text him, didnt page him, just locked him out. The with Vince, he sent some assistant to tell Vince to leave and that Vince is not welcome there (which violated league rules), and then he has the balls to complain Vince didnt say something to him face to face?

Conclusion: Jeff Fisher is a classless a-hole with a long-time major grudge against VY the Longhorn