Sep 14th 2008 12:30AM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)
Filed under: Titans, AFC South, NFL Fans, NFL Coaching
Vince Young’s had a busy week. He started the Titans season opener against the Jaguars, played poorly, threw a couple picks, strained an MCL, got booed, supposedly threatened to retire/kill himself (not necessarily in that order), had his employer call the cops as a result, and spent the last few days refuting much of the speculation.

ESPN’s Chris Mortensen spoke with Titans head coach Jeff Fisher about all this, and here’s what we know (well, through Mortensen’s eyes, anyhow): Young isn’t guaranteed his job when he returns from the knee injury, and pretty much everything we read this week about the circumstances surrounding the Titans quarterback as he left the stadium following Sunday’s game are false.

Apparently, much of the police report is wrong, thanks to Mike Mu, Young’s local marketing manager. Mu called the team therapist, Sheila Peters (Young doesn’t have a personal therapist), saying that Young had left his home without his cell phone, “threatening to quit and was speeding down the interstate with a gun in his car after talking about suicide.” Reports had previously stated that Peters had spoken to Young, which wasn’t the case.

Upon hearing this news from Peters, Fisher “did what anybody would do” and called the cops.Continue Reading