Titans QB Vince Young is giving interviews again and he takes a time-worn tactic to help motivate himself; the media. Young says that he is using his poor treatment by the media and their coverage of his meltdown, and his refusal to go back into the Titans week 1 game against the Jags to motivate him.
Young told Tom Curran of NBC Sports; "I feel like they’re writing my legacy,” Young said. “They’re writing my story. I’m a great guy, a great humble guy. I’ve done a whole lot in my career in just three years and for [the media] to do stuff like that to try to make me look bad for some reason — I don’t know why — but they’re just writing my legacy.”
Asked about concern over his mental welfare, Young said Wednesday, “I don’t want to talk about that,” then added, “That’s something else the media made people think like that. I know who I am, everyone knows who I am as a person. They know good and well, I ain’t trying to commit suicide or all that kind of crap. It was just a story everybody wanted to write. It was hot and everybody need to make their money, feed their viewers. I always get the bad end but I just brush that off and use that as motivation for myself"
You need the media to motivate you? How about your "competitive fire"? How about your desire to be the #1 QB again, to take the job from a 36 year old who was cut by the Raiders? How about not letting your teammates down? Again?
Of course when he was talking to ESPN later in the locker room, he was saying all the right things and forgot to mention to the gathered reporters that he had blamed them for his troubles when he was talking to Curran. The report was filed by former Titans beat writer Paul Kuharsky who writes for ESPN's Hashmarks.
Young talks about how he supports Collins and he's a competitor and how close he and Collins are now. How he's just happy the team is winning and how he's just trying to learn. He closes the interview with this:
You talked about things you wanted to get out. Was it true that going through the adversity you've gone through, was part of that because you didn't have much adversity coming into the NFL and you didn't know how to handle it?
VY: I had a lot of adversity. Just being the Texas quarterback, just being period. It's just that the whole world knows now who I am as a person. This is the whole world. I'm not just dealing with Austin like I was. Now I am dealing with everybody now. It's a learning process for me, but at the same time, I'm over that. That's out the window. It's made me a stronger black man that I am and it's making me a stronger competitor. And when I do get a chance to be back on that football field, it's going to be a whole other Vince Young.
Why do you say 'black man,' why not just 'man?'
Why do you say 'black man,' why not just 'man?'
VY: Period. Well I'm a black man, so I'm going to say I'm a black man. [Laughter]. Man, period. I'm a strong, strong man, a strong black man, which I am."
I don't know which interview from Young to believe. The "I know this will be on ESPN so I'll say the right things" VY or the "I got a raw deal from the media" VY, or if it really matters. Until he proves that he's still a capable NFL QB, he's the guy who quit on his teammates, had his coach and the Nashville police looking for him and a police report indicating Young mentioned suicide.
5 comments:
this is a completely different song then the piece i put together. interesting.....email me his contact on this one, i'd like to talk to them & find out WHY, they made this guy choke on his words like this.
i take umbrage when a "media" outlet, takes part of a story we did & twists it up & spits out a whole shtty version~ya dig!!
i can honestly say i highly doubt he sounded that uneducated, because he is educated & knows what he has to do to get back to being a starting QB.
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No he doesn't.
This is the timeline, VY ripped the media to Curran then he smiled and said all the right things in the locker room after practice on Wednesday. The reporters thought, "Hey VY is getting it", then after the interview they read what VY said to Curran. The beat reporters,did not appreciate it, not one bit. I'll e-mail what I heard this morning. VY didn't do himself any favors and the only twisting that was done was by VY, not by ESPN, the beat writers or Curran.
i got the email. so he doesn't know what he has to do to get back to a starting QB spot. Interesting....
you don't think if he sits & learns, he will never be a starter, because of his talking? So vince twisted what? the reporters made him sound like he talks ebonics & he doesn't.
uh i must be missing something here or i just don't get it
No one twisted any of VY's words, he said all this stuff to several reporters in the locker room, he said what he said.
The stuff he said to Curran is going to be a much bigger problem with the guys, beat writers, covering the team. The thought is going to be, "Is VY telling me story A but then he'll go and tell a national guy story B?"
He didn't help his relationship with the press much.
As for him being a good QB, I don't know if he's trying to learn anything or not, we'll have to see how he does when he gets back in there. I want to believe that he is doing whatever he needs to be a great QB.
ya i got ya, he sounds intelligent in my blog & like he's talking ebonics in the reports he gave to others. gotcha! still think the guy is intelligent, still think he has great potential & still not arguing this point , it's like throwin the guy under the bus. not gonna do it ;0
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