Vince Young: victim of his surroundings or himself?

He's young, we need to give it time. Really can't answer much right now.

Most young QB's struggle. Add to that fact that he has very little offensive help....who should be surprised or very ticked off about the situation? I'm not, and don't see how any reasonable person could be.

I think we should surround him with more talent (which is part of the problem), and obviously give him time.

That may not be an exciting controversial answer, but I think it's the truth.

 

I think the majority of the scouts didn't believe he would be effective until at least year 3 maybe even year 4. You'll occasionally see flashes of the throws he can make (one to troupe for 20 yards today). Last year I believed we were a couple years away from being a serious contender. We went to the playoffs this year which no one in their right mind would have thought we would do that this year. I think making some good pick ups in the offseason and getting our key guys resigned will really help our team possibly become a contender next year, and hopefully vince will be able to step his game up.

 

I don't like the term "victim" because it has a negative connotation. I think he is ahead of schedule, and is still developing. I thought he would sit out his first year, and start his second season and struggle. Instead, he started as a rookie and made the Pro Bowl (granted as an alternate), and guided (whether it was because of him or not) his team to the playoffs in year 2. I am celebrating this season, not moaning about it and pointing fingers.

Honestly, my thought when they drafted them is that he would sit his first year, we would go 3-13 and draft Adrian Peterson and grab a WR after winning 5-6 games this year. We are way ahead of the schedule I had predicted.

 

Considering the top 3 WRs on the payroll (Givens, R. Williams, and Jones) were injured, as well as the top pass catching TE (Scaife), and VY's quad/hip is obviously still injured (limited/no scrambles), and Chow sucks (I blame him, not Fisher, for the offensive play calling), and two OL starters were out (Mawae, Roos, maybe more?)...

I'd have to go with "surroundings."

VY was year 2. Titans made the playoffs, while being in the toughest division in the AFC. How can anyone not be happy with the season?

MANAGEMENT has $40 mil in cap room to spend this offseason. Time to pick up a few good free agents. Pats did it with Moss/Welker/Stallworth -- how horrible was it that the Titans front office was asleep at the wheel during THAT WR bonanza?

 

thank you! Give VY time and talent and he will take us where we wanna go.

 

While I agree that we do need to give Vince Young more time and more weapons (even when completely healthy, there is not a serious gamebreaking playmaker on that offense), and while I certainly do not think that Young is to "blame" for anything, I am in favor of adding another option at QB, via a mid-round draft pick. It is hard to get past the fact that Young certainly did not show any significant improvement from last year to this, and that he is most likely our weakest starter (no small feat for a team that started Roydell Williams and Justin Gage at the wideouts)...

Young is clearly our starter next year, but there is no sense in putting all our eggs in one basket, especially when that basket has not yet shown the ability to hold all those eggs...

And I certainly hope that Norm Chow finds his way back to the college game next year: it will be good for him, good for the Titan franchise, good for whichever college hires him, and good for both college football and the NFL.

 

If anyone takes a look, then it's clear its his surrondings. VY has his short6 comings and has to improve on his QB skills as well, but a little help from the OC, and a Playmaking WR or two will help him alot. If you want video, take a look at the 2007 season.

 

Well said chem..

Nobody talks about brandon jones but when 100% healthy he is a similar caliber player to roydell and gage. We sure could have used him yesterday.

That's 2 of our top 4 Wrs out, our starting TE and 2 o-linemen. And we all know vince isn't as good without the wheels.