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7 hours ago, Napoleon said:

I only saw VY play in person two times because I wasn’t living in Texas at the time. 

Game 1: 

January 1st, 2005 vs Michigan 

 

Game 2:

January 4th, 2006 vs USC

 

I was living in LA at the time. I picked a good couple of games.

 

Yup, I felt obligated to go to the rose bowl in 2006 since I was living out there. Was even better sitting with my USC coworkers at the game 🤣

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1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

Am curious. 
What will VY’s NFL retirement be when he’s eligible to start drawing it?

Vested players (generally after three years) receive a monthly pension at age 55 based on their credited seasons. The average annual pension was $43,000 in 2023

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19 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

the all time greatest rose bowl qb !!!!!

 

I still, to this day, just can't see how he ever did any of this...looks like he's going slow motion, never really powered through tackles like Cam did.  And yet he just did it over and over and over again.

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5 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Vested players (generally after three years) receive a monthly pension at age 55 based on their credited seasons. The average annual pension was $43,000 in 2023

That’s a lot of Cheesecake Factory!

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Bruce Feldman had a recent article for The Athletic where he rated Vince Young the #7 rated player overall of the 2000s. He had Cam Newton and Reggie Bush as #1 and #2. 

Kirk Bohls sent him a thumbs up emoticon. 

No Colt McCoy anywhere on the list. 

It seems crazy to say, but Vince Young is underrated nationally for how good he was. The best player I've ever seen. Better than Earl Campbell, high school and college, and I don't say that lightly. I say that to emphasize how unbelievable he was. What he did with Madison HS his senior year shouldn't have been possible. 

Even his first year in the NFL was incredible, until poor personal decisions and playing for Jeff Fisher caught up with him. But he had a sensational second half of a season that year after Fisher let him take over the starting role. What could have been. Ah well. I cherish all the memories I have. 

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3 hours ago, Drew said:

I still, to this day, just can't see how he ever did any of this...looks like he's going slow motion, never really powered through tackles like Cam did.  And yet he just did it over and over and over again.

i can't help but wonder if the same weird slow moving view is how he looked on the field and people just continuously underestimated him

he had some swift ability to side step people with his long legs , as well as the best stiff arm i have personally seen 

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6 hours ago, BigHornedLurker said:

i can't help but wonder if the same weird slow moving view is how he looked on the field and people just continuously underestimated him

he had some swift ability to side step people with his long legs , as well as the best stiff arm i have personally seen 

People also underestimated how big he was. AJ Hawk, the Ohio State linebacker, said tackling Young was like tackling a tree trunk. 

I remember watching him in high school and defenders just bounced off him. When Vince was behind the line of scrimmage looking to throw downfield he acted as if opposing players weren't even there. If he ever happened to get sacked it literally looked like a tree falling down, with Vince looking baffled as if this could ever even happen. 

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"That was Vince Young. That drive was all Vince Young." 

Just reposting because Jeff Fisher is a sub-mediocre, petulant, sad, little bitch who, at best, should have been working the counter at the DMV instead of ruining what could/should have been an incredible NFL career. Sorry for the shitty quality - all of the decent looking film of this game's highlights is blocked by the NFL

 

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