Eagle 1
08-24-2009, 11:00 AM
01:26 AM CDT on Monday, August 24, 2009
Column by JEAN-JACQUES TAYLOR / The Dallas Morning News | jjtaylor@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/082409dnspotaylorcol.33da293.html
It's sad watching Vince Young play football these days. There's no other way to describe it.
The sensational playmaker we saw deliver a national championship to Texas no longer exists. When Young played at UT, you never missed a play because you never knew when he would deliver the spectacular.
All we knew is that it would occur – and if you didn't miss a play, you didn't have to rely on descriptions from friends and other writers that simply wouldn't do it justice.
Frankly, Young should've won the Heisman Trophy instead of Reggie Bush.
All you need to know is on USC's most important play in the national championship game, Bush was standing on the sideline. On UT's most important play in the waning seconds, Young scored the game-winner.
That's among the reasons it was so difficult to watch the Tennessee Titans' backup quarterback play in a preseason game Friday against Dallas. These days, Young plays with none of the swagger of the youngster who once convinced Mack Brown it was OK to be a rapper.
The Texas Two-Step? That's just a memory.
Bobby Carpenter, trying to shed the label of first-round bust, easily tackled him in the open field as though Young was just another buster playing in the fourth quarter of a meaningless preseason game. Which he was.
If the Titans have the courage to deal with the embarrassment, none of us should be shocked if they cut him.
He's just not that good.
It's hard to believe he was recently quoted as saying he would be the next African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl, and that he'll eventually be in the Hall of Fame.
Actually, those comments sound like the kind of empty braggadocio usually associated with prize fighting.
Young can't even beat out Kerry Collins, an over-the-hill, faux starter with a popgun arm. Do you really think the Titans want Collins starting? Of course not.
Young's failure is hard on everyone who watched him dominate at UT.
Roy Williams needed nearly 10 seconds to figure out a way to describe his former teammate's career.
First, Williams smiled. Then he paused. Then he shrugged. Then he looked upward.
Then he smiled awkwardly. Again.
Finally, Williams spoke.
"I wish the best of luck to the guy," he said. "We all know he can play and we all know the things he can do when his head is on right."
We saw a glimpse of what Young could achieve when he helped lead the Titans to the playoffs in his second season with his combination of passing and running.
His career fell apart last season because the hometown crowd booed him and he listened.
Young hasn't been the same since, but it's way too easy to say he's failed because he's too sensitive.
Young hasn't displayed the passing skills necessary to be an upper-echelon quarterback. Young is a career 57.3 percent passer with 21 touchdowns and 32 interceptions, which isn't nearly good enough.
In his defense, if you draft a player like Young, he must be the epicenter of the offense to maximize his skills. You can't ask him to make a bunch of reads when he drops back to pass or make him feel like a failure when he runs.
Still, Young isn't the running threat he was at UT because many NFL linebackers are just as fast. No longer is Young the best athlete on the field.
The glory days, for Young, are over.
He can tell his kids that once upon a time, he was the best. There's certainly no shame in being a college legend who failed as a pro.
Archie Griffin is doing quite well.
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He is the best football player ever and is a once in every two to three generation player.
So I'm wondering, is he still hailed as the "best football player ever"?
http://bbs.3adownlow.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=61313&perpage=15&highlight=vince%20young&pagenumber=1
IMO when he matures out of the taken every boo as an insult and realizes he is a mobile QB first then he will progress
http://bbs.3adownlow.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=86053&perpage=15&pagenumber=2
Aint going to happen.
Column by JEAN-JACQUES TAYLOR / The Dallas Morning News | jjtaylor@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/082409dnspotaylorcol.33da293.html
It's sad watching Vince Young play football these days. There's no other way to describe it.
The sensational playmaker we saw deliver a national championship to Texas no longer exists. When Young played at UT, you never missed a play because you never knew when he would deliver the spectacular.
All we knew is that it would occur – and if you didn't miss a play, you didn't have to rely on descriptions from friends and other writers that simply wouldn't do it justice.
Frankly, Young should've won the Heisman Trophy instead of Reggie Bush.
All you need to know is on USC's most important play in the national championship game, Bush was standing on the sideline. On UT's most important play in the waning seconds, Young scored the game-winner.
That's among the reasons it was so difficult to watch the Tennessee Titans' backup quarterback play in a preseason game Friday against Dallas. These days, Young plays with none of the swagger of the youngster who once convinced Mack Brown it was OK to be a rapper.
The Texas Two-Step? That's just a memory.
Bobby Carpenter, trying to shed the label of first-round bust, easily tackled him in the open field as though Young was just another buster playing in the fourth quarter of a meaningless preseason game. Which he was.
If the Titans have the courage to deal with the embarrassment, none of us should be shocked if they cut him.
He's just not that good.
It's hard to believe he was recently quoted as saying he would be the next African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl, and that he'll eventually be in the Hall of Fame.
Actually, those comments sound like the kind of empty braggadocio usually associated with prize fighting.
Young can't even beat out Kerry Collins, an over-the-hill, faux starter with a popgun arm. Do you really think the Titans want Collins starting? Of course not.
Young's failure is hard on everyone who watched him dominate at UT.
Roy Williams needed nearly 10 seconds to figure out a way to describe his former teammate's career.
First, Williams smiled. Then he paused. Then he shrugged. Then he looked upward.
Then he smiled awkwardly. Again.
Finally, Williams spoke.
"I wish the best of luck to the guy," he said. "We all know he can play and we all know the things he can do when his head is on right."
We saw a glimpse of what Young could achieve when he helped lead the Titans to the playoffs in his second season with his combination of passing and running.
His career fell apart last season because the hometown crowd booed him and he listened.
Young hasn't been the same since, but it's way too easy to say he's failed because he's too sensitive.
Young hasn't displayed the passing skills necessary to be an upper-echelon quarterback. Young is a career 57.3 percent passer with 21 touchdowns and 32 interceptions, which isn't nearly good enough.
In his defense, if you draft a player like Young, he must be the epicenter of the offense to maximize his skills. You can't ask him to make a bunch of reads when he drops back to pass or make him feel like a failure when he runs.
Still, Young isn't the running threat he was at UT because many NFL linebackers are just as fast. No longer is Young the best athlete on the field.
The glory days, for Young, are over.
He can tell his kids that once upon a time, he was the best. There's certainly no shame in being a college legend who failed as a pro.
Archie Griffin is doing quite well.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
He is the best football player ever and is a once in every two to three generation player.
So I'm wondering, is he still hailed as the "best football player ever"?
http://bbs.3adownlow.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=61313&perpage=15&highlight=vince%20young&pagenumber=1
IMO when he matures out of the taken every boo as an insult and realizes he is a mobile QB first then he will progress
http://bbs.3adownlow.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=86053&perpage=15&pagenumber=2
Aint going to happen.