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1. bob said:

   November 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

   I woke the baby up I was screaming so loud.

   (add your own Texan dig here)

2. someone said:

   November 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

   Kinda fitting that Matty was starting for Arizona.

3. HenryJames said:

   November 29th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

   Starts off on a 97 yard drive before they turn it over. Gets the ball back on his own one and takes them right back down the field to win it.

4. mpayne said:

   November 29th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   vince young is a cold-blooded killer. just a terrific performance. to all the doubters, vince says ‘hello’…and, oh, by the way, F U.

5. uthookem said:

   November 29th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

   And no one on Football Night in America has said anything about it yet…

6. Trips Right said:

   November 29th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

   And his number 1 receiver is Nate Washington. Chris Johnson doesn’t touch the ball on the drive either.

7. TOR said:

   November 29th, 2009 at 5:19 pm

   Much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Houston as the Texans lay another smelly one and VY wins. It’s really hilarious to watch, especially as a Cowboys fan.

8. Dutchie said:

   November 29th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

   Fisher is an idiot for ever benching him. Kerry Collins, seriously?

   VY is the man. Completely unrelated, but this just makes me feel REALLY fucking good about going to Pasadena.

9. Homesick Alien said:

   November 29th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

   FUCK YOU, HATERS!!! FUCK YOU IN THE NECK!!!

   Vince Young. Forever. Unconditionally.

10. EyesOfTX said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    Vince’s 9th consecutive winning start. He was benched with a four-game winning streak going. That’s coaching.

    That was the greatest game-winning drive in NFL history. Pure magic.

    Hook ‘em!!!

11. Merril Hodge said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    It was obviously against a weak and tired defense. His mechanics are horrible and he will never win anything for Tennessee.

12. Tdiddle said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    Oh my god I LOVE VINCE YOUNG!!

13. ghostofagroundgame said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    Kubiak is the gift that keeps giving.

14. Trips Right said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    He’s baaaacckkkkk!!!

15. Trips Right said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    Espn will now hide, not highlight Merril Hodge.

16. Woody Bombay said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    Sure, it’s impressive that he won two straight Rose Bowls, earned (but did not get) a Heisman and won a national championship. Hooray to all that.

    Today, though, Vince Young saved me in my NFL pool. I am in awe and in his debt.

17. srr50 said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    This is like deja vu all over again.

18. Sugarpants said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    I just heard some douche (I think it was Dan Dierdorff – the original Matt Millen) say “Well, I don’t think he’s your typical pocket passer. They’ve got a great running game in Tennessee and Vince has been able to manage the game, not turn it over, and win with his legs.”

    Please read the stat line, dumbshit. Almost 400 yeards passing and 8 rushing yards. Well, I guess it’s the 2% that makes the difference.

19. Barton West said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    Trips Right said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    Espn will now hide, not highlight Merril Hodge.
    —————————————————-

    That is fucking money right there

20. Sugarpants said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    Merril admitted to being dead for a minute after his last NFL play. Dain Bramage. He now has my sympathy.

    Ditka has been making those other dbs look like fools. He’s been jocking Vince and Ricky all year. Ricky had another good day himself – 115 yards.

21. sizzlechest said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:14 pm

    Sugarpants, that’s because Dierdorf is an old, crippled chimney-sweep moustache wearing cunt that still lives in a world where Bo Schembechler is regarded as an offensive genius.

22. Sugarpants said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    The talking heads on ESPN also claim that “Jeff Fisher’s system is perfect for Vince Young.”

    O, really?

23. honkskillet said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    In Chris Johnson’s first 6 games this year (when Collins was QB) he only had ONE game (week 2 vs Houston) where he had more yards than in his least productive productive game with VY taking the snaps.

24. Jackanape said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    Sizzle – brilliant.

    In a world where Matt Millen and Dierdorf are paid to yammer, the one eyed man is king. Or something.

25. Fried Rice said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    You mean he’s better than Tim Tebow?

26. ghostofagroundgame said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    Not at healing lepers.

27. tangentorange said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    Titans TD drive
    Titans final touchdown drive
    Here is the play-by-play for the Titans’ winning touchdown drive — 18 plays, 99 yards, 2:37 (down-distance-ball on):
    1-10-TEN 1 — Young pass to Britt for 6 yards.

    2-4-TEN 7 — Young pass incomplete.

    Two-Minute Warning.

    3-4-TEN 7 — Young pass incomplete.

    4-4-TEN 7 —Young pass to Britt for 10 yards.

    1-10-TEN 17 — Young pass to Scaife for 19 yards.

    1-10-TEN 36 — Young pass to Hawkins for 2 yards.

    2-8-TEN 38 — Young pass to Cook for 12 yards.

    1-10-50-yard-line — Young pass incomplete.

    2-10-50-yard-line — Young scrambles right end for 6 yards.

    3-4-ARI 44 —Young pass incomplete.

    4-4-ARI 44 —Young pass to Hawkins for 13 yards.

    1-10-ARI 31 — Young pass to Scaife for 5 yards.

    2-5-ARI 26 —Young pass incomplete.

    3-5-ARI 26 — Young pass to Cook for 17 yards.

    1-9-ARI 9 — Young pass incomplete.

    2-9-ARI 9 — Young sacked for minus-1 yard.

    3-10-ARI 10 — Young pass incomplete.

    4-10-ARI 10 — Young pass to Britt for 10 yards, TOUCHDOWN

28. TOR said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    “Young pass to Scaife for 19 yards.”

    That’s good to see. Bo was a good receiver for Major.

29. TOR said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    ‘Receiver’ used in the general sense, as he’s a TE obviously.

30. flamingmonkeyass said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Think Matt’s on suicide watch tonight? I mean the guy goes out and has basically his best game as a pro, leads his team down the field to take the lead, and who just so happens to lead the opposing team to one of the greatest come from behind victories ever? Mother Fucking Vince Young. It’s like their destinies are intertwined and Matt’s role is the bitch.

31. Brent M. said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    *The* Major. . .

32. TOR said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    THE Major, apologies.

    Hilarious reading in the Tennessean game discussion- http://bit.ly/763WPX

33. Nordberg said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    Bo has been better in the NFL than he was “for Major”.

34. texoz said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    In addition to the sheer joy of watching one of my all-time favorite players send out a big FU to all the doubters, that drive helped convert my 9-year-old daughter into liking football.

    “Daddy, I like football now.”

    Top that one fellow Horns.

35. dick said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    I do appreciate all the slobbing that ESPN is doing now over VY. But one thing I do not like is them acting like his time on the bench was spent “learning” from Kerry Collins and becoming more mature somehow BECAUSE of Kerry Collins and THAT is the reason why he is able to do what he is doing. He was doing this shit before too, I’d be interested to see what they say about him the first time he has a shit game and they lose.

36. tangentorange said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    Only highlights I could find at this point:

37. Sasha is a Longhorn Dog said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    Pretty good highlight of him at half-time of tonight’s game. Maybe others are finally starting to believe…

38. LurkerintheDark said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    Has any other player ever carried the kind of fan loyalty with him that Vince does?

39. Lilia B. said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    tangentorange:
    Thanks for the link. I’ve watched it twice now… and will probably watch it five more times tonight.

    Lurker:
    Probably not. Maybe Nolan Ryan? But I doubt it…

40. Varsity said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    VInce is undefeated as a starter and captures the attention of the entire NFL today while the Texans’ loss means another season without a playoff game was decided prior to December.

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

41. The Dog Pound said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    Eyes:

    The mistake by the lake begs to differ.

42. burnt orange outrage said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    Watching that drive was like watching the end of the ‘06 Rose Bowl all over again. Unbefuckinglievable. I cannot adequately express how thrilled I am that Vince is seizing his second chance and proving all his doubters and haters wrong. And doing it with class and grace when he would be 100% justified in telling every one of his detractors to Suck It.

    Since I’m concerned with neither class nor grace, I’ll gladly say what Vince is no doubt thinking: Merrill Hoge, Jeff Fisher and every other sack of shit who ever doubted Vince Young: Fuck you, douchebags. You’re all worthless pieces of shit and I wish heaping piles of misery on you all.

    I cannot fucking believe it took that ignorant asshole Bud Adams publicly demanding that Vince be put in at QB for Fisher to pull Collins and give Vince a chance. For that and that alone I thank Adams, who’s still an ignorant asshole. The ironic thing is, Vince might just be saving Fisher’s job, which is bad for Vince, as I think he would flourish even more in a different system.

43. Blueshorn said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    Glad to see Leinart was a good sport about being VY’s bitch, again. I guess the money he’s making lessens the sting a little.

44. SL Xpress said:

    November 29th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    Remember, it wasn’t just Adams demanding Fisher put Vince in that has the team at 5-6. If it hadn’t been for Adams, there’s no way anyone else in the Titans franchise was going to draft Young in the first place.

    I’ve always hated that POS Bud Adams as much as the next guy, but man. He’s produced some tremendously conflicted feelings. He gets it. The asshole absolutely gets it. If he’d been allowed to build Reliant Stadium in Houston instead of Bob McNair. Vince Young would be the QB for the Oilers right now, and we’d be having Luv Ya Blu 2, Electric Bugaloo.

45. austindave said:

    November 30th, 2009 at 3:25 am

    The final play, in Tecmobowl-vision:

46. Texoz said:

    November 30th, 2009 at 7:09 am

    I grew up in Houston during the Luv Ya Blue era and was a huge fan. Like many other people I know from my generation I don’t give a rat’s ass about the Texans. If they had drafted him they would have immediately gained anywhere from 100k to 200k (at least) rabid fans.

    I’ve never been to a Texans game. I’m fairly certain I would have been to quite a few Texan games by now if Vince was there.

47. spider said:

    November 30th, 2009 at 8:44 am

    Merril Hodge can inhale a crate of penii.

48. Orangeblood said:

    November 30th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Quote from the SI recap:

    “A couple plays into that game-winning drive, Cardinals receiver Steve Breaston came over to Leinart and told his quarterback he had a case of deja vu. Breaston had seen Young lead a late-game drive against his Michigan team in a similar fashion.”

49. Homesick Alien said:

    November 30th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    Merrill has officially begun attempting to backpedal.

50. Sugarpants said:

    November 30th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    SL – that was some funny stuff.

51. brooklyn_horns said:

    November 30th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    Bless you, Barking Carnival: my number one spot for indulging my VY man crush. I saw this comment on a Tennessean post and it says so much of what I’ve wanted to say, albeit slightly more conspiratorially, assuming that’s a word:

    It wasn’t McNair’s death, Vince Young maturing, or any of that nonsense. It was:

    A) Getting rid of incompetent unqualified Norm Chow. The guy is the offensive coordinator at UCLA now. Their offenses are horrible. Do people still think that Chow was this great NFL coordinator that Young was holding back? Remember: Merrill Hoge claimed Young got Chow fired, and would get any offensive coordinator or head coach fired. After Chow got fired, he’s been badmouthing Vince Young ever since to save his own reputation. Funny how nobody is talking about that now.

    B) Getting actual NFL wide receivers in Kenny Britt and Nate Washington. Meaning guys good enough to play for other NFL teams. Do any of you think that Roydell Williams, Brandon Jones, Eric Moulds, or the other guys Fisher surrounded Young with his first two years could have made ANY of the critical plays that Britt and Washington have made this year? And remember: Fisher only went out and got Britt, Washington, and Cook because he thought Collins would be the QB. Back when Young was the QB, he kept avoiding WRs like the plague, knowing that everyone would put the blame on the QB that everyone had prejudged and stereotyped to fail to begin with. I still remember Paul Kuharsky’s infamous claim “the Titans’ WRs are good enough if Vince Young can get them the ball” and Merrill Hoge’s stating that Jay Cutler’s superior statistics had NOTHING to do with the fact that he was playing with 3 Pro Bowl caliber WRs with Mike Shanahan and Mark Heimerdinger running the offense.

    C) Jay Cutler’s playing horribly. Funny how everyone who insisted that Young’s problems shouldn’t be blamed on the WRs, or that if Cutler were in Nashville with his great accuracy and leadership and high Wonderlic score and dropback passer ways, he would transform Roydell Williams and Brandon Jones and Bo Scaife into all pros. Well, the people who were booing and trashing Young EVEN WHEN HE WON because he wasn’t Jay Cutler are now silent, and that has reduced the pressure on the guy.

    More than anything else, young QBs need confidence to succeed. Vince Young had an incompetent offensive coordinator, wide receivers who couldn’t get separation/ran the wrong routes/dropped passes, a head coach and offensive coordinator who was trying to undermine him, a fan base that didn’t want him, and a local media that was rooting for him to fail. (Only now that it is obvious that Young is the QB for the long haul is this Wyatt character admitting that Young has a history of leading comeback victories. This is the same guy who spent over a year claiming that the Titans should have drafted Cutler, and as recently as 8 weeks ago was claiming that Young was outplayed by Pat Ramsey and could be released at any time). And when his hamstrings (and if I am correct, also his knee) got hurt, that was really a blow, because take away a young running QB’s legs and that is really a blow to the confidence. (The next member of the Nashville media who acknowledges that Young’s legs were injured most of 2007 and in 2008, and that he was trying to tell Fisher that his legs were bothering him in that Jacksonville game but Fisher sent him back in anyway, only to have Young do further damage to his leg will be the first. Now it could be that Fisher never believed that Young was hurt and was making excuses, as Kuharsky acknowledged recently on ESPN that Fisher was trying to get Young to scramble more in 2007 and got angry when Young refused, but what does that tell you about Fisher? But I still remember Chris Johnson last year defending VY, saying that Young’s only problem was that he was hurt.)

    Well, now the guy is healthy, has a capable coordinator, guys who can play around him like Johnson, Washington and Britt instead of White, Roydell Williams, Eric Moulds and Ben Troupe, and his main nemesis, Fisher, is now severely diminished because he A) threw away a likely Super Bowl run last year by refusing to put VY back in the game when he was healthy, B) went out and got talent to surround Kerry Collins with when he didn’t do so for VY, C) gave Kerry Collins a $15 million contract and promised Collins that he wouldn’t have to compete with VY (because he knew that Collins couldn’t beat out VY in a fair competition, and Collins knew too!), and D) he stuck with Collins throughout the 0–6, blamed Collins failures on the entire team causing the team to quit on him, and puts VY in who leads the team to 5 straight wins.

    Oh yeah, and F) the local media, whom Fisher, Chow and his intermediaries spent YEARS leaking “off the record” NONSENSE to has been exposed also. These were the same guys who kept insisting that Young would be cut, Young would be beaten out by journeymans like Simms and Ramsey, Young was so horrible in practice, the guys in the locker room did not trust Young and were fully behind Collins, Young was throwing all these INTs in practice, COLLINS GIVES THIS TEAM THE BEST CHANCE TO WIN, etc. Now NO ONE is going to believe ANYTHING that these guys say.

    So, er, yeah, Young’s confidence is SKY HIGH right now. And you know the only guy who backed Young through all this? HEIMERDINGER. When Heimerdinger first came to Nashville, Kuharsky and Wyatt were all giddy about how Heimerdinger was going to run Young out of the NFL. (The truth is that Adams forced Fisher to fire Norm Chow and brought Heimerdinger in to do the same with Young as he did with McNair, took another QB that Fisher was ruining and turned him into an NFL MVP.) Instead, Heimerdinger and Young are very close, and Young knows that Fisher is the guy who nearly destroyed his career. So, who is the most influential guy on the Titans right now? That’s right, Heimerdinger. Who is going to have a lot more clout on draft day, in game planning, and the direction of the team? Heimerdinger. Who is going to take over when Adams finally gets tired of Fisher’s nonsense? Heimerdinger.

    If this keeps up, Fisher is going to have to answer questions like why didn’t he draft Dwayne Bowe and or Steve Smith in 2007, instead taking Michael Griffin and CHRIS HENRY. He is going to have to answer why he didn’t go back to Young in 2008, even as a role player, and why he threw away the 2009 season. He will have to answer why Fisher didn’t believe VY in that Jacksonville game when VY was trying to tell him that his legs were really bothering him. And so on. Hopefully, Wyatt, Biddle, Climer, Kuharsky, McCormick (from the City Paper) and the other guys will ask all these questions just like they spent the last 4 years recycling Merrill Hoge quotes. Then again, I won’t hold my breath …

    http://blogs.tennessean.com/titans/2009/11/29/young-outdid-himself-this-time/#comment-2697

52. bob said:

    November 30th, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    Good lord. Are there still people that think Jay Cutler is a better quarterback than Vince. His career record is 21-25 and he’s played for better teams. How is that better than 23-11?

53. Wolfemanjack12 said:

    November 30th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    As a loyal NU fan (I know, maybe not the best week to make my first post on the site), Vince is the ONE former Texas player that I will cheer for night and day. The way he dropped his sh!t on USC and made me large sums of money will forever hold a warm place in my heart.

    As Texas fans…..how many times do you all use Fisher’s name in vein? WTF? Seriously, Kerry Collins over this man child?

    I’m amazed that the media hasn’t made more out of that story line. Fisher is basically forced to start Vince and all he does is go 5-0 since that point. Sunday’s game was the clincher for me that it doesn’t matter what level he’s at, Vince just wills his team to win. I don’t care that his throwing motion isn’t ‘ideal form’ or crap like that….he throws a nice catchable ball, can throw on the run, and then on top of that presents a huge threat to run the ball. He’s a joy to watch and I’m glad to see him doing so well and putting it back in people’s faces. I don’t like Tennessee, but as long as Vince is playing, I’ll be cheering (just hope they don’t play my Vikings anytime soon as they are on a roll and could do some damage).

54. Sugarpants said:

    November 30th, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    ESPN was DEFENDING Fisher against Bud Adams, saying that Adams violated Fisher’s contract by insisting that Fisher start Young.

    WTF? Yes, he may have control over personnel decisions, but it’s the owner’s right to go in and say “There is no reason to start the current QB. Start the other guy or I will assume you’re tanking the season and you’ll be in breach of your contract.”

    It would be a reasonable assumption given that most folks were calling for Collins to be benched after week 4.

55. 75% male said:

    December 1st, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    ka-ching!!

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