And I will be there again this year I still believe the texans will go 7-9 at best, and Titans will do better. We shall see how the texans do against the colts next week.
He had a 95 passer rating and 40 rushing yards. He did enough for his team to win. If not for a missed catch they might have won, and also they were playing the best team in the nfl.
Really? Did you watch the game or not? Just curious. This looked like one of his best games in managing everything. Few (or none, I think) turnovers, kept the chains moving, made some plays with his legs and some really good throws. He has a lot of room for improvement, but I thought he had a great game. Overall, credit the D with playing well and really tightening up in the red zone. That's one of the best ways to stick around with the colts- find a way to limit them to fg's and not td's. You know they'll move the ball....
Funniest thing about the Vince Young Haters to me is this they loving the Texans Winning . . . good good but the fact that they LOVED them some David Carr People wanting Vince is 1. He vince but 2. CARR SUCKED!! Everyone coming here to dog him out seems like the same ones that were drinking the CARR Kool Aid now Carr is gone and magically the Texans look credible . . they wanna still act like Vince would not have been an upgrade the point blank in simple is. . we can agree Carr Sucked Young, Schuab, Two sammiches, anyone would have been better Vince still doing well . . .20-22 against the defending champs that handed the saints their asses last sunday . .ain't nothing to sniff at Rocket River
I WATCHED THE ENTIRE GAME. He overthrew receivers, and he made stupid penalty during a crucial moment in the game. He also looked rattled on that final drive, overthrew an open receiver and didn't show much poise. He looked like a rookie out there, calling it how I saw it. Watched the entire game. I live in Arizona and the Texans game wasn't televised out here.
After seeing the Saints get blown out by the Bucs today, I'm not sure if that's true. Besides, if David Carr can beat them, surely Vince can too.
I watched the entire game as well, he def made a stupid penalty at the end of the half. On the final drive he was one catch away from setting up a game winning FG, he ran for a first down on 3rd and 7, had his WR drop the ball on 3rd down. He didnt look like a rookie, he just came up a little bit short.
The flip the ball penalty at the half was not too bright, among the overthrows...That act alone probably cost a potential score...
I watched about 75% of the game. He did get a stupid penalty called on him for the personal foul. A weak call, but against the rules, so it probably cost his team a field goal. On the last drive, they had 1 time out and were having to drive 50 or 60 yds in under a minute so I don't know if he was rattled as much as his options were limited trying to get the ball to the sidelines. Anyway, he has room for improvement, but I didn't think he was horrible today by any means. That last play of the game, I agree he needed to chunk the ball downfield, but I guess all he could think of was keeping the ball alive by lateraling it. But the play before, Brandon Jones did him no favors on a ball that should've been caught and might have set up a game winning fg. I respect you calling it how you saw it- I'll do the same. I didn't think it was a crappy game, but sure, he can get better. And I'm hoping some good wr's develop as the season progresses. I've been really pleased with the o-line and running game so far.
Then the lateral. Like I said, 15 seconds left and one timeout you take your chance down field, don't flip it back to an offensive lineman.
It was 4th down, needed 4 yards to continue the game, it was an all out blitz by the colts. I wish vince couldve thrown the ball but he had no time and couldnt get rid of the ball... No reason to throw ball way down the field as you said.
There were 15 seconds left, it was 4th down, time being an issue, they had a timeout, and they were pretty close to being in field goal range. There was a reason to go down field there was no reason to go backwards.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/recap?gid=20070916010 Indianapolis 22, Tennessee 20 AP Sports Writer September 16, 2007 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Vince Young and the Tennessee Titans ran out of magic. Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison couldn't ice the victory. Adam Vinatieri struggled kicking the ball. So of course, the Indianapolis Colts' defense -- yes, the one that let the Titans come back to win in December -- made the plays that mattered most. Manning threw for 312 yards and a touchdown, and the Colts held off Tennessee for a 22-20 victory Sunday when their defense stopped Young on a final-drive comeback. "Our defense saved the day, and that's what good teams do," Colts coach Tony Dungy said. "They find a way to win." This time, the Titans (1-1) trailed by 13 points instead of 14. "Anytime the ball's in Vince Young's hands, everyone feels like we're going to win the game," Titans defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch said. "We were just waiting for something magical to happen." But unlike last December, when Rob Bironas capped a similar comeback with a 60-yard field goal, the Colts collapsed around Young on fourth-and-4. That forced him to lob the ball away in the final seconds. Manning kneeled down to run out the clock as defending champion Indianapolis (2-0) reminded Tennessee which team remains atop the AFC South. "The defense came up big," Manning said. Vinatieri had one of his worst days in years despite making field goals of 22, 39 and 20 yards. He had an extra point blocked and a field goal partially blocked that bounced off the crossbar before going over. He also missed a 36-yarder to the left after the Colts recovered a fumble in the fourth quarter. "There were some things out there I've never seen before," Titans coach Jeff Fisher said. "I've never seen a ball tipped, and then hit the cross bar and go in. That's the good fortune of the world champs." The Colts had every reason for a letdown in their first road game after unveiling their title banner before the opening 41-10 rout of New Orleans. And they played without starting linebackers Freddy Keiaho (right elbow) and Rob Morris (ribs). Indianapolis allowed Tennessee 313 yards, including 141 yards rushing. That was well below the 282 yards the Titans had in their opener. The Colts nearly blew a 16-6 halftime lead. Vinatieri struggled and the Titans picked off Manning and sacked him twice in the second half. Indianapolis twice had the ball at the Tennessee 8 and had to settle for field goals. They even came up with a fumble when linebacker Tyjuan Hagler, starting in place of Keiaho, recovered at the beginning of the fourth period. But Tennessee, which gave up more yards than any other NFL defense in 2006, had to settle for two field goals before LenDale White scored his first pro TD in the third. The Titans held the Colts to a three-and-out after the turnover. But Vinatieri, the kicker signed last year for his accuracy in the clutch, missed a 36-yarder. "We won, and that's the only thing that's really, really important," Vinatieri said. Young, who stopped a drive himself with a taunting penalty just before halftime, drove the Titans 74 yards and pulled them within 22-20 with a 2-yard pass to Roydell Williams with 6:02 left. Manning had his own chance to seal the victory. But Titans cornerback Nick Harper, who won a Super Bowl ring with the Colts in February, leaped up and tipped away a pass intended for Harrison at the goal line. Then Vanden Bosch sacked Manning on third down, forcing the punt. "We were trying to get a touchdown and put the game out of reach," Manning said. "We didn't do as good a job as we wanted of running the clock." Young, who looked so poised in becoming the first rookie quarterback to lead two comebacks of 14 points or more in 2006, finally showed his youth. He stopped a drive just before halftime when flagged for taunting after running out of bounds, and Manning drove the Colts to a field goal after getting the ball back. The Titans had 98 seconds left and needed a field goal to win and improve to 2-0 for the first time since 1999. Young was sacked on the first play. He overthrew Brandon Jones on third down, then the Colts collapsed around Young on fourth down and he fumbled. Left guard Jacob Bell grabbed the ball for the Titans, but that was it. "We fought hard. We played well. We just didn't finish it," Young said.
