VY, the GREAT

what starts here changes the world

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what a turn around...un-fn-believable...

 

Yet still less fun than cheering for a team. Cheering for an individual player will never amount to the same as cheering for a team.

 

You are wrong so wrong. It was so sweet to see every single statement about VY go to hell when he PASSED his way to VICTORY yesterday.

VY the hall of famer....

 

That's why Austin sucks, it will turn you into a man lover.

 

First loss for VY, but he still had an ok game. His WR did drop what looked like a TD pass.

 

I just hope this thread keeps going...maybe even forever.

 

2 things really turned this game around. nate washington dropping a sure 65-yd TD that hit him right in stride right in the damn hands (where else would you like it nate? i think he dropped a 50 yarder against the texans that hit him right in the hands) and then the titans somehow giving indy a fg after scoring with only 20 seconds left in the 1st half. stupid short kick by fisher. he did the same thing against the texans and of course the texans got in fg range in short order. and then the personal foul that got indy to the 30 for the fg.

while the titans screwed up in epic fashion after first and goal at the 1/2 yard line (timeout, fumbled snap, holding penalty, fade route on 4th down?), they could have kicked a field goal if it was 21-10 instead of 24-10 b/c of that end of half FG. and then the next time they got inside the 20, they could have kicked a FG instead of going for it again b/c of all the other missed opportunities. it was kind of like watching a texans game. relatively good play with all sorts of "shoot yourself in the foot" moments to mess it all up.

 

I think this is the longest thread in bbs history.

 

Vince Young is a tool

 

Hell of a run by the titans and vince to win 5 straight. I still expect them to finish 9-7 but be short of the playoffs.

 

Yep. All the credit in the world to Vince for his part in this incredible turnaround, but at the end of the day, football is a team sport and one guy cannot do it all. No matter what college he went to, uniform he wears, or position he plays.

 

That is incorrect, sir. [and we will continue to argue about it until it DOES become the longest]

 

Just a Very Nice Article on VY - Rocket River


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1163719/2/index.htm

An Angel In His Pocket
With the memory of his late mentor to guide him, Vince Young has rediscovered the joy of football and reclaimed his career
LEE JENKINS

At Madison High in Houston, Young's coach was Ray Seals, who counseled him on everything from gangs to recruiters. At Texas it was Brown, with whom he still talks or texts every other day. The relationships were personal, bordering on familial. "We sometimes spoil kids at this level and help them deal with problems that don't have to do with football," Seals says. "But a lot of these kids don't have dads at home. You try to fill that void." Young thought of his coaches almost as fathers. Fisher, by comparison, was a boss.

"It took me a while to get used to that," Young says. "In high school and college there is a lot of love. They help you become a man. In the NFL they make you be a man.

In the final week of June, Young went to see McNair. They met at the former Titan's restaurant in Nashville, Gridiron 9, and Young vented. "I want to play so [much]," he said. McNair told him, "It will come back again. Be ready." A week later McNair was dead, and Young's complaints about playing time could not have seemed more insignificant. He and Fisher embraced at the funeral, united in their grief. McNair's last bit of advice—"Be ready"—became a soothing and inspiring mantra.

Young told strength coach Steve Watterson, "If you see me being lazy in the weight room, let me know." He told his longtime girlfriend, Candice Johnson, "If you see me being lazy in our relationship, let me know." Young and Fisher grew closer, but Collins was still the starter as the season opened, and Young spent the first six games wearing an earpiece on the sideline. "Some people thought it was an iPod," linebacker Keith Bulluck says. "It wasn't." Young was listening to every offensive call, and when Bulluck asked him what the Titans were about to run, Young relayed the name of the play and how to execute it. "If the safety comes over," he'd tell Bulluck, "we have to check down."

After the debacle at New England, which matched the worst loss in the league since the AFL-NFL merger, Tennessee called on Young. Owner Bud Adams, who had lobbied to draft Young, told reporters he ordered the change. Fisher maintains the decision was collaborative. As offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger prepared Young to start against Jacksonville—yes, Jacksonville again, at LP Field again—he warned, "The biggest key is going to be how you handle adversity." Before the game Heimerdinger gave Young instructions on what to do after his first interception: "You're going to be upset, and I'm going to be upset. So I'm going to go one way and you go the other, and we'll meet back at the bench a couple of minutes later."

Young did not throw an interception in that game, a win over the Jags, or in his next one, a win at San Francisco. He had one in his third game, against Buffalo, but an unfamiliar calm came over him. "It didn't kill me the way it used to," he says. His teammates were watching. "He is not as demonstrative," Collins notes. "He's not as emotionally connected to the ups and downs." The Titans beat the Bills handily, and the 86-year-old Adams celebrated in his luxury box by throwing a series of middle fingers into the air. Few noticed the gesture Adams had flashed just before he flipped the bird: hook 'em horns.

Young no longer has the tape the Texas coaches prepared for him after that Missouri game, but on Thursday nights during the season he often watches the 2006 national championship game against USC "to remind myself who I am." Now he is part leader and part jester, just as he was in Austin. He'll wear his jersey backward at practice, handcuff his offensive linemen with tape, hide Bulluck's laptop in the locker room, turn off the lights and croon R&B. The Titans' offense even includes echoes of the one Davis designed for Young, putting him in the shotgun, moving the pocket, running some option. It helps Young that he plays alongside Johnson, who is leading the league in rushing. And it helps Johnson that he plays alongside Young, who has completed 62.9% of his passes since his return and divides the attention of eight-man fronts. Young's throwing motion is as awkward as ever. The difference, Heimerdinger says, is better footwork.

Even if the Titans fall short of the playoffs, they will have accomplished something just as significant: rediscovering a potential franchise quarterback. NFL teams want their QBs to operate as efficient machines—make the call, make the read, make the throw—but emotion will always be a critical part of Young's game. After an interception on Sunday he flung his helmet down, mainly because he'd banged his knee on the play but perhaps also because rookie receiver Kenny Britt stopped his route. Young sat alone on the bench, but when the Colts punted the ball back, he clapped his hands, then drove the Titans 66 yards, finding Britt for a touchdown pass.

Britt also scored on a pass from Young the week before, with no time left against Arizona, the culmination of an unforgettable 99-yard drive that included three fourth-down conversions. After his finest moment as a pro Young rushed to his guests in the stands, Tyler and Trenton McNair. He can never replace Pops, but he took McNair's young sons to their school's Dear Dads breakfast this semester, accompanies them to Dave & Buster's on Friday nights and leaves them tickets whenever they want. He is not looking for a father figure anymore. He is one.

Now on SI.com

 

I think Fisher took a few too many gambles. .. [should have kicked those field goals]

Rocket River

 

Had he kicked (and made) the first FG, the complexion of the game would have changed and we will never know if the opportunity to kick the 2nd FG would have even arisen. For all we know, the Colts could have run the subsequent kickoff back for a TD.

 

your probably right but
IMO . . in those type of games they needed to just
hang around. . . keep it close.
Then maybe catch a break at the end

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