Who Wants Vince Young? Where Will He Play In 2011?

Vince Young comes with a lot of baggage.
That much is true.
How much talent he brings remains to be seen –
A risk will be taken by an NFL team –
The question is: Who?

Vince Young has had a rocky tenure in Tennessee to say the least. Statistically this most recent season was his best. His 10-3 TD/Int ratio is impressive, and he started 8 games in 2010. He has good on-field experience, so you know he’s not going to be very rusty.

So many questions. In what kind of shape is he going to keep himself this off-season? Is he going to be historically thin-skinned wherever he goes? Can your offense handle an emotionally immature field general?

There are way more questions than answers with Young, who we all remember from the unbelievable performance he put on in the 2005 BCS Championship game — probably the best college football game of all time.

Young has a long list of past issues: getting kicked out of meetings, throwing his jersey into the stands, going missing for a few hours with a loaded weapon after mentioning suicide, crumbling at the first sign of fan dissention, quitting in the middle of games, almost quitting football altogether.

The list could go on, but you get the drift. It would seem illogical to take a risk on a player with so much baggage, but he has an undeniable amount of talent. The kind of talent that gets you drafted #3 overall.

The Titans have indicated that they would rather trade Vince Young than release him. Here are a few teams that might consider trading a draft pick for #10:

Cincinnati Bengals

Anytime someone has serious baggage issues, the Bengals always seem to be the landing spot. It truly is the island of misfit football players.

With the uncertainty surrounding Carson Palmer and his threatened retirement, it may be time for the Bengals to take that next step into insanity by trading for a quarterback that is just as mercurial as its owner.

Seattle Seahawks

Pete Carroll is a PAC-10 guy. The Seattle Seahawks are practically an all-time PAC-10 team. But Carroll’s nightmares won’t let him sleep. He is forever haunted by Vince Young’s touchdown scamper in 2006.

He begins to think crazy thoughts: The only way to excorcise these demons is to have VY on his team. Then, and only then, can Pete sleep.

Philadelphia Eagles

With the news of the Eagles franchise-tagging Michael Vick, Kevin Kolb will have to move. There’s no way the Eagles could sit on that kind of resource and not reallocate it into something usable.

Michael Vick is exactly the kind of guy Vince Young should look up to, and he is probably one of the only guys that Young would sit behind quietly. He could learn from Vick and maybe settle down a bit.

One problem with Philly: they boo absolutely everybody. Vince Young has MAJOR emotional problems with getting booed.

Oakland Raiders

TO calls VY on the cell phone one day and tells him that he’s going to Oakland. TO thinks it would be sweet to have VY as his quarterback. Someone young and malleable. Someone he could bully into throwing it to him all day.

VY gets excited and has his agent call Al Davis. Al Davis worbles something that sounds like “Yes” and VY is on the next plane to Oakland.

Fast forward six weeks into the 2011 season, Al Davis is wondering how the hell Vince Young got on his team and he demands interim Head Coach Al Saunders to put Ken Stabler back in.

Minnesota Vikings

The Vikings have shown that they have a propensity to make bad decisions at the quarterback postion. And they need a quarterback — like really bad. 

I bet Vince Young would kinda look like Daunte Culpepper in a Vikings uniform.  Maybe that would sell a few season tickets.  Or maybe not.

Arizona Cardinals

In Arizona, a corpse would be an upgrade at quarterback.  You could tell Vince Young to make up every play as he goes.  That would be better than trying to get Derek Anderson to understand an NFL defense.

Can you believe Derek Anderson still has a job in the NFL?  Could you imagine sucking as bad at your job for 2 straight years as he has and still having your job?

Oh, you already do that?  You must have a federal job.

Tennessee Titans

OK, so this wouldn’t involve a trade, but with Jeff Fisher leaving, it’s possible Bud and Vince kiss and make up.  Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner did it all the time.  Weirder things have happened. 

There are probably a few other teams that would be interested in Vince Young, and the team that picks him will probably be the last team we thought possible.

I have an even better question for you.  Would you want Vince Young on your team?

I wouldn’t.