Vince Young’s magic merely a memory

Author: admin

26 Aug

It’s sad watching Vince Young play football these days. There’s no other way to describe it.

The sensational playmaker we saw deliver a national championship to Texas no longer exists. When Young played at UT, you never missed a play because you never knew when he would deliver the spectacular.

All we knew is that it would occur – and if you didn’t miss a play, you didn’t have to rely on descriptions from friends and other writers that simply wouldn’t do it justice.

Frankly, Young should’ve won the Heisman Trophy instead of Reggie Bush.

All you need to know is on USC’s most important play in the national championship game, Bush was standing on the sideline. On UT’s most important play in the waning seconds, Young scored the game-winner.

That’s among the reasons it was so difficult to watch the Tennessee Titans’ backup quarterback play in a preseason game Friday against Dallas. These days, Young plays with none of the swagger of the youngster who once convinced Mack Brown it was OK to be a rapper.

The Texas Two-Step? That’s just a memory.

Bobby Carpenter, trying to shed the label of first-round bust, easily tackled him in the open field as though Young was just another buster playing in the fourth quarter of a meaningless preseason game. Which he was. Next >>