Vince Young Has Had Quite Enough of Riding the Bench for Tennessee, Thanks Very Much
One year as the back-up in Tennessee was more than enough for former #1 draft pick Vince Young:
During an interview with WMAR-TV, Young said that if he doesn’t win back his old job, then he wants a change of scenery.
“I definitely want to get back out there playing ball and picking up where I left off, winning games and having a good time with my teammates and with the fans,” Young said. “At the same time, if them guys don’t want me to be in there, it’s time for me to make a career change for myself. Because the fact is I’m ready to play ball. If they’re not ready for me to play ball, then somebody is.”
During the offseason, Titans coach Jeff Fisher declared that Young would have to “earn his job back” to overtake [Kerry] Collins.
Seems to me that, given all the crap that went down with Vince last year, the quiet approach would be the one for him to take. You know, get himself ready, study his playbook extra-hard, be the first guy on the practice field and the last to leave, all that stuff. If Vince is as good as he wants us to think he is, that talent will bear itself out, and he will beat Collins for the starting job fair-and-square. And if he’s not that good? Well, there might be someone out there dumb enough to trade for him, but frankly, I would rather have Michael Vick. At least with Vick I know I’ll get a motivated player who, now that he’s gotten that whole dog fighting thing out of his system, is likely to be a model citizen, and not someone I’ll have to send the cops after cause I’m afraid he’s going to stick his head in the oven.
