Sep 12th 2008 6:20PM by Will Brinson (author feed)
Filed under: Titans, AFC South, NFL Police Blotter, NFL Media Watch, NFL Rumors
The more chatter we hear out of Vince Young’s camp regarding last week’s public relations debacle makes it sound, of course, like a big, giant, huge misunderstanding. But that’s probably not the case, especially when we hear Jeff Fisher say that Young will have to “put some things back in perspective” to get his starting job back.
And even more so when the (via MDS at PFT) uncovers a filed police report that has repeated mentions of “suicide” and talks about Young driving around his car with a gun.
A police report filed after the Monday night search for Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young states Titans Coach Jeff Fisher told police the star player’s therapist said Young “mentioned suicide several times.”
The report from Central Precinct Lt. Andrea Swisher states Titans’ head of security Steve Burke notified police that he had “a player over at the stadium going off.”
“Sgt. Windus later advised me that it was Vince Young and that he was driving a black Mercedes and armed with a gun,” Swisher’s report states.
There are more fairly bizarre and disturbing details of the report as well, including the fact that Young’s manager lost him on the highway driving at a high speed while following him home, and that someone named “Major”, purportedly Young’s agent Major Adams, phoned Fisher to say the quarterback was at a friend’s place and not in any harm.Continue Reading
