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How #VinceYoung became the cautionary tale that overnight success leads to massive disappointment. · The Facts with Jamal 🇺🇸🦅👊

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  All right, so I hope everyone's having a good day up to this
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  point and all that good stuff. Time for a little sports topic.
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  And this has to do with, you know, a, you know, the NFL.
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  I apologize. So let's do a drawback on a
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  Sunday. Now this guy coming out of the
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  draft in 2006, I actually thought he was going to be kind
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  of like that, at least at that point.
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  The next mode of you know, quarterbacks that we see
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  nowadays in the NFL, you know, the dual direct quarterback that
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  can make plays with his legs has a good to even great enough arm
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  to where he can electrify the crowd at any given moment just
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  for the sake of helping elevate a franchise.
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  Now when I and I cannot forget to mention that along with him
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  being a part of you know, the court banks that we normally
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  talk about. Now we also have to bring into
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  equation, you know, the O GS before him, the Randall
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  Cunningham's, Steve Young's and the Michael Vick's obviously.
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  But for this guy that I'm about to mention, it seemed like he
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  had a brief glimpse of, you know, what he could have been
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  had he just stayed on course as far as you know, improving his
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  game of all. But then in the blink of an eye,
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  it seemed as if everything instantly changed and he was no
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  longer really a guy that was going to be a difference maker.
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  So here's a Sunday drove back Events Young, an electrifying
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  quarterback at Texas who amazed the world on the national stage
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  in the national title game, only to not live up to what he could
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  have been in the NFL. You know, when I was almost 11
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  years old, even today, I've seen a lot of great college football
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  games in my life, some of the best bowl games and even, let's
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  just say for the sake of argument, even now as an adult,
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  endings to natural title games that made me had to be on the
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  edge of my seat. But if we're talking about from
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  start to finish, one of the, you know, from start to finish the
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  greatest college football game, bottom line, you would be hard
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  pressed to not say that the 2006 Rose Bowl is right up there
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  because at the time you had Texas and USC, no doubt the two
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  best teams in all the nation. On one side you had USC, led by
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  P Kell and back-to-back Heisman winners winning the forefront
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  Matt Lyon, who won a year prior 2004.
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  And of course, by that point, a guy in Reggie Bush who had, you
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  can argue, has solidified himself as the most electrifying
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  player in all football, even in the professionals.
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  And of course, UFC was the consensus favorite before the
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  season and even before the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to win the
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  national tire once again. What they weren't prepared for,
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  however, was this QB that I'm not going to lie to you, before
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  the season, I never really paid any attention to and French
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  Young who put Texas back in the national championship spotlight.
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  And I'm going to be honest with you, going into the game, I
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  thought, you know, like many people, I thought your seat
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  based off on the talent and experience that they have from
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  winning national championship a year prior.
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  I thought they were going to take care of business against
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  the Longhorns, but man, it was like every time Texas got the
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  ball, I kept seeing #10 out there.
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  And I kept seeing back and thinking, you know, as a soon to
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  be 11 year old, who is this guy and why hadn't I not seen him
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  very often up until that point? And I got to tell you, at that
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  point, he won me over. Not only did the Longhorns upset
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  the heavily favored Trojans, but it was like in a way fence Young
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  overnight because of his spectacular performance, put
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  himself on the map for the spring around April's draft.
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  And I think a lot of people were enamored with his potential in
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  what he could be at the next level.
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  Now, mind you, the 2006 draft was around the 2006 draft, I
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  apologize, was around the corner, everybody.
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  And I, for me personally believe that draft was doing that, you
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  know, decade one of the more underrated drafts.
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  And then for this file, save that for another day.
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  Tennessee had the third overall pick that year.
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  And after training away franchise legend Steve Air
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  McNair, rest in peace to my Ravens.
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  The Titans want to go younger at the position and so they
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  selected him. Finch young guys with the third
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  overall pick with the hopes that he can usher in the new era in
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  Nashville and everything started off promising.
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  You know, fence Young was offensive rookie of the year.
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  It seemed like game after game that particular season, he was
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  leading the Titans to some of the most bizarre and you can
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  argue remarkable comebacks at that point to where you would
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  think, wow, did this guy continues to improve.
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  You know his passing and you'll become more of an accurate
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  quarterback. Sky's the limit for him.
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  Here's where, however, things from Jump Street got off to a
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  Rocky star, if you will. For whatever reason, Jeff
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  Fisher, who was the Titans coach at that time, wasn't too keen on
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  drafting Young or having Young be his quarterback.
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  Because remember, he was Steve Mcnair's guy.
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  You know, McNair was with the franchise when they were still
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  the Houston Oilers in 1995. And then when the franchise
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  moved to Tennessee full time in 1998, Ray named the Titans a
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  year after that was this guy. You know, he really made Steve
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  McNair in a lot of ways what we new in the BS record back in
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  vice versa, McNair to Jeff Fisher again, blessing peace to
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  my guy and McNair. But back-to-back seasons in 2004
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  and 2005, Saul McNair, after sharing the MVP award with
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  Peyton Manning, suffered season and the injuries both seasons in
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  a row. The Titans, wanting to kind of
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  replaced the quarterback position, felt it was time to
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  move on from the franchise icon. And instantly after getting
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  Finch Young that year in the draft, that's when things start
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  to kind of spill over. First, let's start with Vince
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  Young. This is always the case.
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  You know, when you come out of the draft, there are questions
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  about a lot of things. You know, particularly how smart
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  you are, you know, in the film room, breaking down game tape
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  and breaking down certain coverages.
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  Many saw offense young with tremendous upside, but as a
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  player who probably needed some work.
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  I mean, let's just be real honest.
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  If you're a quarterback coming out of college, you know you're
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  not a finished product. I mean, let's just be real
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  honest. Even some of the legends need a
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  time to refine their game when they came out of, you know,
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  where they came from as far as college.
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  But you grow and you become a better quarterback as time goes
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  on. But there were some red flags,
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  you know, in Young's case. For starters, that Lundelik
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  score that you probably heard of.
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  He didn't apparently test all that well on it.
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  He his score was less than a 10. And I just wanna be specific on
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  that. If your score is less than A10
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  and if you're a quarterback, that's an immediate red flag
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  that I'll save that part for. At the moment.
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  May felt that even at Texas, Young relied too much of his
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  athletic ability to help him succeed.
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  Not a bad thing when you're in college and you can actually get
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  away with it. But when you get to the next
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  level, arm strength, accuracy in the intellect matters a lot
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  more. So there were some questions
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  about that part of it as well. But many people thought inspire
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  that the upside was there to where maybe if he learns to kind
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  of grow into being a more refined Passover time and be
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  able to break down certain things easily, he can't
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  compensate anything. Now where things get murky
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  between he and Fisher. Remember when I said earlier
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  Fisher was not exactly keen or wanting Young to be his Corp?
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  And it wouldn't be long even after that breakout rookie
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  season where the two of them constantly clash with one
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  another, one of the first signs of Young's, I guess you could
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  say immaturely as a quarterback. Apparently he throughout his
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  first 2-3 years in the NFL, he spent an exorbitant amount of
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  money on. Get this Cheesecake Factory and
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  no I am not joking. Go research that story of how he
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  would spend almost up to 50,000 a week.
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  Not you know, on a blue moon, just for like a reward or
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  whatever. No, this would be nearly 50,000
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  a week the guy would spend on Cheesecake Factory for not only
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  himself, but for several people. And like most players in the NFL
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  who had finally make it big and had kind of in a way establish
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  themselves, you get a little full and you want to share the
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  welfare value by Unfortunately, that's how many of them find
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  themselves in financial trouble where on in life that part will
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  get into soon enough. But as far as you know, on the
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  field, even after Young's rookie season and even once again
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  showing what he could be, it was clear that he and Fisher was
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  never going to be meant to coexist.
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  And not surprisingly, after Young's breakout rookie season,
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  that's when everything started to fall apart.
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  He never was really able to build off that great rookie
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  season and he struggled at times with injuries, never really was
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  able to work on his game overall as far as being more of a
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  complete passer. And the next, you can really say
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  parts of five years he was in Tennessee was really up and down
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  for him. Along with missing time through
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  the injury, The Titans in 2008 actually won 13 games.
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  But remember, Carrie Collins, who they got from free agency
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  started the bulk of those games that year.
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  And the offense you from 2008, 2009 was mostly centered around
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  Chris Johnson, CJ2K especially that year in 2009.
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  And as an aside, with him definitely sending players
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  'cause he's barely ALS you know in my thoughts CJ2K.
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  But as far as Vince Young was concerned, it was more than fair
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  to say that he was never really able to reestablish himself in
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  Tennessee. He and Fisher constantly clash
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  with one another and even in the media.
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  His play started to deteriorate over the next couple of seasons
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  with the team and it wouldn't be long before the long time Titans
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  coach and their once promising quarterback that was supposed to
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  be the future were both gone. Now, Fisher went on to coach
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  with the Rams when they were in Saint Louis sliced away.
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  But here's with Vince Young's career that looked to be
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  promising at one point now, who was able to fully get back off
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  the ground after history disease in 2011 when he joined
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  Philadelphia, If you remember, they were supposed to be that.
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  And and this is actually laughable, you know, now,
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  considering how far that franchise has come since that
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  year when, you know, 2 Super Bowls after that.
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  But that Dream Team in 2011? And if you're an Eagle fan, you
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  remember exactly what I'm talking about.
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  Yeah, Long story short, that Dream Team was a nightmare.
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  I'll just leave it at that. Young was never really able to
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  stick around not much longer after that scenario panned out,
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  although he tried, you know, to rest elect his career for a
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  couple of teams. It was as good as the guy, as
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  far as you know, either being on the roster for training camp and
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  or preseason. Buffalo, Cleveland, and I
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  believe Green Bay was in the cards at one point.
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  If I'm forgetting one, I apologize.
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  But he was never really able to reinsure himself, as you know,
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  the guy that showed what he could have been in his rookie
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  season. And before you know it, the once
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  hyped prospect from Texas who amazed everyone in the Rose Bowl
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  just a couple years prior was out in the NFL.
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  But that was really only just the beginning or just the tip of
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  the iceberg, as they say. As far as you know, how things
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  completely unraveled. As I mentioned earlier, like
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  most promising players who made it big to the NFL, it didn't
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  take long for the financial bug to get too young.
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  Remember earlier when I had talked about him spending all
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  that exorbitant money on The Cheesecake Factory?
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  Yeah, so he tried his hand. That other kind of things,
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  spending unnecessary money on, you know.
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  Materialistic things that make absolutely no sense, bad
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  investments. And yeah, and again, that's
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  technically not uncommon for, you know, NFL players to go
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  completely, you know, broke a couple years out of the league.
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  And Young, unfortunately, was no exception to that, but it was
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  the off the field, you know, stuff after he was done playing
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  that I'm not going to say was a surprise, but it's like from a
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  distance. Wow.
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  And if you saw that documentary that I believe it's on Netflix,
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  you can kind of see how he looks now as opposed to what he was
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  when he came out of college. He's had several run insurance,
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  you know, with DYDWI and after at one point working for his all
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  monitor as far as doing game day telecast, it just seems as if, I
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  don't know. He just never was.
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  He has been able to get himself back in order.
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  And, you know, I think the unfortunate thing was it was
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  like he never was able, in my estimation, to fully, you know,
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  mature not just, you know, as a football player, but as a human.
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  Because remember when I said that he had clashed with Fisher,
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  You know, at times in Tennessee, he tried to reach out to Fisher
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  one day to try to make amends for what happened down there in
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  Tennessee. Apparently, Young misspelled his
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  name. And do I think that's that big
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  of a deal? Maybe it may not in the kind of
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  an ideal sense, but it's one of those things where you have to
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  kind of look at and say, did he really do that on purpose or was
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  there some labeling feelings from what happened years earlier
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  between the two that I don't think Young ever learned from?
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  It's hard to say. I mean, again, you have to watch
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  the documentary on finishing for that Regardless, you know, you
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  want to wish a guy well and you want to be able to hope that he
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  can get himself hopefully back on the right track.
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  But as far as, you know, football wise, I thought he was
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  going to be great. I thought he was going to be, as
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  I mentioned, you know, from the old fellow names of the past,
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  the Randall Cunningham, Steve Young's and Michael Vick's to
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  even the guys we see today to Josh Allen's, Lamar Jackson's,
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  Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts. I thought Young was going to be
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  in that fame. I thought his talent warned him
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  to be in those kinds of conversations.
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  OK, I thought he was going to be somewhere in that mold, if you
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  will. But unfortunately, and this is
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  just the case of how 1 Noble performance put someone on the
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  spotlight that they probably would not prepare for because it
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  was like, in a way that national title performance against UFC
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  put Vince Young, you know, on the spotlight immediately.
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  But then came the high level of expectations that I don't think
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  he ever was able to fully live up to.
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  And that's not, like I said, uncommon for something like that
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  to be a case. I mean, I've seen, and not just
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  in football but in all sports mostly you can say basketball or
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  hockey where a guy that comes in has like a noble ear season or
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  performance that you look back on.
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  You say, wow, he could have the potential would be great.
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  But then in one fell swoop, the level expectation gets raised,
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  the pressure amounts, you know, money certainly will play a part
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  in it. But then when all those things
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  happen, then everything comes in full circle to where he will
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  never be able to live up to what he was supposed to be.
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  And Vince Young, you know, fell into that category or really
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  that kind of manga almost immediately that he was never
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  really going to be able to live up to what he could have been.
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  Yes, certainly playing for a coach who wasn't a fan of his
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  didn't help. But the lack of maturity, only
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  really having one great season and just being injured at times
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  hindered what he could have been long term for his career.
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  And that is the bottom line. So the next time you see kind of
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  like your normal season or performance, what have you that
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  elevates an athlete you know overnight, don't buy into hype.
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  Let them see how they can be over a long period of time,
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  because more often than not they are more destined to fail than I
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  think most people realize.