Vince Young Getting Ready

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Wait, what?

VYkings is a legit possibility?

I saw some guys on tWWL talking about Vince. Tim Hasselback was making the point that if you look at VY through the years, he has continually improved. And that there are shit ton of QBs getting minutes who don’t have his record.

If this dude and Peterson share a backfield, I won’t necessarily get a Vikings jersey and spend SUNs in sports bars with my face painted but I’ll watch every game VY starts.

Also, what about VY playing indoor soccer?

cmdr, that’s the rumor.

VY to the Vikes had been a hot rumor, then I think it was downplayed somewhat by Vikes personnel, and lately whispers of Donovan McNabb and/or drafting someone like Ponder or Dalton have surfaced.

All of which leads me to believe that VY to the Vikes is a very strong possibility.

Hilariously, Rick Gosselin’s final mock has the Titans taking Jake Locker at 8. If Kenny Britt was sending shout-outs to Vince last year, I can’t wait to see what he does when Locker airmails an out route 5 yards over his head for the fourth time in a game. I’m envisioning that he either gets a life-size tattoo of Vince on his back, Steve-O style, or immolates himself like a Tunisian fruit vendor.

VY to Zygi Wilf: “I’m your huckleberry.”

His rep must be pure horeshit right now. He was playing extremely well last year before he got hurt, and before his, ah, “theatrics”.

I still remember that awesome post someone made comparing VY to the Natural. No longer a very “young” qb, exiled from his first team, that post post was prophetic. I still believe in VY.

Now that’s he’s been totally scorned and (irrationally) labeled a bust, I imagine there’s a chip on his shoulder so big only a super bowl will suffice. Get it Vince.

Locker will be a lot like Vince, except smaller, slower, paler, less accurate, and less successful. Good call, Titans.

Vince will easily step right in to Brett Farve’s very large Crocs.

VY till I die!

Or has mechanics improved significantly? Granted it’s only practice, but those are some sweet looking spirals with significant velocity.

What some teams still evidently don’t get is it’s Vince’s IT factor, http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/recap?gid=20091129010&prov=ap, that trumps all of the measurables. Every NFL QB not named Tom Brady takes a back seat to VY in that respect. Game manager QBs are fine if all the other pieces are in place, but most clubs don’t feature that kind of roster.

Red, it took me sixteen years to get here. You play me, and I’ll give ya the best I got.

He is indeed working out. My friend saw him at a Galleria area gym Tuesday.

That Viking O would be loaded with playmakers. Let’s not forget Harvin and Rice, assuming Rice sticks around.

mgv, I like Justin Gage and Bo Scaife better.

Thanks for the link, Sailor. A Trips Right classic is what that is.

Who is the coach and offensive coordinator for the Vikes?

Burnt Orange Wookie certainly enjoyed the post. So did I.

Can you be labeled a bust with a winning record?

If you have about an hour to kill you can watch pretty much every play VY made last year (good and bad): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnCZ7N_H5fE&feature=player_embedded

If you watch, notice VY do all the things his critics say he can’t do.

Also for comparison with he’s peers (Elite QBs), here’s single season QB Rating up through age 27: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/tiny.cgi?id=fWPoK

He’s #22 all time there and notice all the HOF and likely HOFers in front of him. And Chad Pennington. As an aside, besides being elusive with the law, Roethlisberger has a fantastic showing on the list.

Lastly, VY’s supposed bad winning % vs. winning teams would put him top 20 all time: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=570

What’s even funnier is that he is labeled a bust, with a winning record, and that completely ignores context.

When he doesn’t play, the team went something like 2-16 the last 2 years. It’s not like he’s filling a spot in the batting order of the 27 yankees. He is singlehandedly the past 2 years the difference between Tennessee being the worst team in professional football and being a playoff team.

Of all the strange things I’ve witnessed from afar the VY in Tenn saga is the most bizarre and inexplicable. They win, consistently, with him in there. They lose, almost every game, without him. The organization was not smart enough to play him, and the coach who had his job saved multiple times engages in a vicious smear campaign against him.

Is there an analog for this situation anywhere else in sports? I’m not smart enough to find one if there is.

Wulaw Horn, in Tenn they only remember the 13-3 season that came before the last two and just assume that was the norm and VY somehow ruined it. They forget the pathetic playoff performance against the Ravens where it was obvious they needed a difference maker at QB and not a caretaker. They don’t understand that team might have made the Super Bowl if they had had VY at QB and not Kerry Collins.

Hey Titans. Eat 12 extra spicy dicks.

They don’t deserve the spice. Give them mayo.

I posted a comment with a couple of links showing objectively how amazing VY’s been, but it must have been stolen by aggy gnomes.

If you ever have a few hours to kill, google trackingvince where you can watch pretty much every play VY’s made over the past few years (good and bad). You’ll see him do all the things critics say he can’t.

A few things I found using the player season finder function on profootballreference: VY’s past season QB Rating ranks 22nd all time among QBs (min 100 attempts) 27 and under, 9th all time for 27 year olds, 17th all time for 1st round picks 27 and under, and 8th all time for 27 year old 1st rounders. Other rate stats (such as ANY/A) rate him similarly or better. The guys in front of him are HOFers, future HOFers, and promising players whose careers were hampered by injuries.

His supposed bad record against winning teams (slightly under .500 on a team searching for absolute zero without him) would put him top 20 all time. Only 11 QBs in NFL history have winning records against .500+ teams.

VY wins 62% of his starts while the Titans win less than half the time without him (with close to every non-VY win coming in 2008 when they had a top defense). That improvement is better than many HOF QBs, include Aikman, Elway, and Montana.

On my computer, I’ve compiled a spread sheet comparing VY to Brady, Montana, S. Young, Elway, Aikman, Manning, Brees, Marino, Favre, Kelly, and McNair. At the age of 27, VY’s past season is as good or better than all of them by any measure except maybe fantasy football points.

He’s been elite in a terrible situation (bad team, bad relationship with Fish, conservative offense), I can’t wait to see what he’ll do in a better situation.

Got it back from the gnomes, bb.

Any idea who the receivers are in the video? Just curious.

I still predict multiple Super Bowls (provided we still have Super Bowls). Were the Tight Ones the tempering fire that makes VY the best evah? I can’t imagine that organization (and I use that term loosely) being any more wheels off. I can understand how being in the middle of that clusterfuck could make any young man a little unstable.

The Titans chose a prospect that will need a year to learn the system. If he sees the field right away, I don’t think Locker makes the full season uninjured. Which is sad because it’s a waste of a great running back—arguably the best in the league who could get used up before they sort out their qb issues.

Minnesota drafted a qb but know that they need someone like Vince to play right away. The other guy can sit and learn but they aren’t going to waste the talents of AP on someone that can’t win right now. The best scenario for Vince is Minnesota or the Cardinals. He could lay waste to the whole NFC West and have some receivers to throw the ball too if a team like Arizona picked him up.

Jake Locker!!!!

HA HA HA HA!

the only regret is that they won’t have Fisher “coaching up” Locker…

I tell you what, four teams reached for quarterbacks, and I think at least three of them will be mightily sorry they did. Especially when someone picks up Vince for cheaper than they’re paying rookies who will in all likelihood never be as good as VY.

I think Vince has already won more games in the NFL than Locker ever will.

Hell Jimmy Clausen was a more polished QB than Locker. Just a combine freak and nothing more.

I have never gotten the Locker love. I hope that the UT guys can get out of Tennesse asap. I will actively root for them to lose every game from here to eternity now.

They’ve made me do the unthinkable and root for the disgrace of an organization at Reliant 2 times a year.

if Minnesota was willing to pay Fauvre an ungodly amount of money, they will have no problems paying Vince.