An apology to VY

Unlike sports talk radio hosts, ESPN sock puppets or know-it-all bloggers, I'm not afraid to say I was wrong. Dead wrong about VY. At the beginning of the season I felt he had played his last games as a Titan. After his quitting on the Titans against the Jags and then his strange behavior right after that game I figured that Field Goal Fisher was done with VY.
My belief was further reinforced when Field Goal Fisher stuck with Kerry Collins despite it being clear to everyone but him that something had to be changed. I'm convinced FG Fisher would have stuck with Collins had Bud Adams not gotten involved.
In fact Adams had to tell FG Fisher in no unceratin terms to start VY. "I have been wanting [Fisher] to play Vince Young more because [Kerry] Collins has been having his problems out there," Adams told The Tennessean last week. "I just think we need to find out how well [Young] can do.
"If you don't play the guy and lose all your games, it is hard for you to see what he can do for you. Vince has won a lot of games for us.''
It still took Fisher 2-3 days before he would announce VY was the starter.
I figured after FG Fisher did announce VY was the starter he would look for the first sign of him not doing the joband pull him, but to VY's credit he hasn't given FG Fisher a reason to take him out. From the looksof the sideline last night, FG Fisher is his biggest fan, you'd never know that FG Fisher and the coachig staff had lost confidence in VY.
Keep up the good work VY and again, I was wrong.

Why did it take Fisher so long?

Vince Young is now 3-0 as a starter in 2009 for the Titans, and fans are wondering, again, why did it take owner Bud Adams telling Field Goal Fisher to start him before he went with VY? Did Fisher really have that much confidence in Kerry Collins?

0-5 and no VY

Peter King in his MMQB:
"Magic's over, Kerry Collins. It's Vince Young's turn."

Jeff Fisher:
"Kerry is our starter and when games get out of hand either way you play your back-up,' Fisher said. "Kerry's not the problem. … There are still a lot of games left. I am not going to speculate. What we are trying to do is try and win our first game, that's all. We've made out own mess, and we're going to find our way out of it.''

Coach, at 0-5 and heading to Foxboro, this isn't the week to try to find your way out of the mess; it's only going to get worse, probably much worse.

VY time

After watching the disaster in North Florida, it's time to either start VY against the Colts on Sunday night. No he's not going to get the Titans into the playoffs but it's time to see if he is an NFL QB. Kerry Collins and every other Titan is proving that it's really hard to sustain winning in the NFL.

For coach Jeff Fisher this is an all too common pattern; great season disaster the next. The last time the Titans went13-3, they went 7-9 the next. They also lost in the first round of the playoffs that year too; to the Ravens.

The Titans have a very good chance to be 0-6 at the bye, they have the Colts at home next Sunday night then the Patriots. If that happens VY is your starter, you know what you have with Patrick Ramsey, a younger Kerry Collins, it's time to see if you invest more time and money into VY.

Tony Romo is moving on

Tony Romo, who finally dumped Madame Psycho just before her 29th birthday, is dating again. This time he is dating someone who hopefully comes without the baggage; the crazy dad, a crumbling singing career, a talentless sister.

The new girl is Candice Crawford - the sister of Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford. Romo is getting cozy with former Miss Missouri. Candice is a Dallas TV sports reporter and hosts the weekend Dallas Cowboys sports show Special Edition.

I have no idea if this will make Romo a better QB or not but it can't hurt to get rid of both TO and Madame Psycho in less than 6 months.

Pacman is playing football again

Jim Trotter of SI.com is reporting that Pacman Jones has agreed in principle to play for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL.

"It'll be a good experience for me to get back in game shape and compete and play football, which I like to do," Jones told SI.com. "I'm real happy for the opportunity that's been given to me. Of course it's disappointing to me to not be playing in the NFL. But things happen and you have to adjust. "

Pacman's talent on the field has never been questioned, but off the field he has been a complete trainwreck. He has the talent but as one GM told Trotter; "He's already got 2 1/2 strikes against him, so he's just not worth the time."

This does worry Blue Bombers GM John Murphy but he seems unconcerned about picking up Jones and believes the buzz picking up Jones is worth it for his team.

"If I was in the same position in the NFL I might have a lot more reservations," Murphy said. "But for me it's a win-win. I'm smart enough to know that if I'm looking for somebody who can be a playmaker for the second half of our season, there isn't a better football player who's not in the NFL, at 25 years old, who's ready to play football, is going to play with a chip on his shoulder, and is going to bring some fun and excitement to our team, our locker room, our city, and our league.
"And at the same time it's a business decision as well as football decision. From a marketing standpoint, a business standpoint and a football standpoint, I could go to 100 NFL training camps and every preseason game and more people will hear and know about the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the next two weeks -- from the coverage we'll receive -- than in the last 10 years."

I have faith in Pacman, if he can find trouble in Morgantown, WV and here in NashVegas I am sure he can find trouble in Winnipeg, it's only a matter of time.

Update: Charles Rogers is also joining the Blue Bombers, good times north of the border.

She just will not go away

I said it when they first started dating and will continue to believe it until she does something, anything to prove me wrong; Jessica Simpson is one crazy biatch. Not only did she cry about Tony not wanting to marry her, she did little to dispell rumors that she was pregnant, which she wasn't. But if that wasn't enough, Madame Psycho has hired a witch to put a curse on Tony. Most Cowboy fans would say she did this long ago but is just now admitting that Madame Psycho played the voodoo card on Tony.

From the National Enquirer:
Jessica Simpson paid a witch to put a curse on her ex-boyfriend.
The unlucky-in-love starlet - who was dumped by American football star Tony Romo the night before her 29th birthday last month - has visited a woman she met on the internet to help her put a spell on Tony and ruin his chances of falling in love again.
A source told National Enquirer magazine: "Jessica is normally a really sweet girl, but she still can't believe Tony callously dumped her.
"She found a woman in California. The two met at the star's Beverly Hills home where they lit a candle, burned some incense and performed a couple of incantations."
The scorned singer-and-actress hopes the meeting will also taint the sportsman's career, and is waiting in readiness for his next match on September 13, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Meanwhile, Jessica has reportedly been cozying up to football star Colt Brennan - a Washington Redskins quarterback and sporting rival of Tony's.
The hunky sportsman has even sent her one of his team's shirts to wear.

Kicker vs DB 50 yard dash

It's not often that a kicker can outrun a DB but it happened at the Cowboys' training camp this week. Rookie pk David Buehler raced rookie db DeAngelo Smith and beat him by a full step in a 50 yard dash. I'm sure Smith won't hear about this again from the other DBs.

From the Dallas Cowboys blog,

Rookie defensive back DeAngelo Smith doubted the speed of fellow fifth-round pick David Buehler and paid for it with a public embarrassment.

Smith and Buehler, locker room neighbors who had exchanged good-natured trash talk throughout training camp, staged a 50-yard race at the end of practice. Buehler won by a full step, much to the amusement of the rest of the defensive backs.

"A lot of people were telling him it's all downside," said Buehler, whose fastest 40 at the combine was 4.56. "If you win, you know, you're supposed to beat a white kicker. It is what it is. I'm just being honest.

"A lot of players were telling him it's a lose-lose situation, but I just kept getting in his ear and talking. He just got frustrated and wanted to do it."
Smith, who is primarily playing safety in large part because he lacks elite speed, was a gracious loser, saying Beuhler beat him fair and square. But Smith wants a rematch.

Buehler is willing to race almost anybody on the Cowboys.

"Well, I know Newman is fast," Buehler said. "I'm probably not going to mess with him."

Nice game VY

After a week of hearing how terrible he was and how the Titans would be better off without him, VY did the only thing he could do to make some people happy, he went out and played well.

Saturday night against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Young completed nine of 14 passes for 131 yards and a touchdown, with a quarterback rating of 118.5. He looked like a completely different QB against the Bucs; confident, decisive and comfortable, especially when throwing on the run.

"I am not even thinking about that. It is not all about me; it is about me and my teammates and executing plays. That's all I care about right now,'' Young said. "I feel good. Just getting more reps and back into the rhythm is the biggest thing. All my teammates did good things.''

We'll see how much, and how quickly, the mood about VY has changed. I'm thinking there are going to be a couple of Titans' fan who want to see #10 as the starter.

Vick+Eagles=bad

Despite what Peter King and others are saying, Vick to the Eagles is not a good move. Vick is not a West Coast O kind of QB. He's inaccurate and he's skittish, he has no field vision and no idea what the reads are.

Ask this one question, if the West Coast O was so perfectly matched for a running, inaccurate QB, would the Vikings have ever courted Lord Favre?

Nope, they have Tarvaris Jackson to fill the Vick role and yet they did everything they could to get a more accurate QB. True, Lord Favre is not Brady or Manning but he is tons better than Vick or Jackson.

Bottom line...bad signing.

As I told one of my buddies with unbridled happiness; he's not a Cowboy....burn.