Sep 15th 2008 3:48PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: Titans
It’s clear that Vince Young has a lot of work to do to convince his Tennessee Titans teammates that he’s the guy who can lead them to the Super Bowl.
Although Young once looked like one of the league’s most promising quarterbacks, in the last week we’ve learned things that call into question whether he has the right mental makeup to be an NFL quarterback, including that Young asked out of the Titans’ playoff game in January, and that the local police say they were told by Young’s therapist that he was contemplating suicide.
And then there’s this, which Peter King says someone inside the Titans’ organization told him:
“Vince definitely is going to have to win the locker room back. As bad as Pacman was when he left the building or at 3 o’clock in the morning, it never interfered with his football. He loved football. Loved practice. The guys loved him. Players are going to be on your side if you show that you’re going to help them win. Vince has to prove that to this team.”Young seems like a nice man away from the game of football, while Pacman Jones is a menace to society, but the bottom line is that football players care mostly about whether their teammates are helping them win, and it’s telling that players on the Titans think more highly of Pacman than they do of Young.
