News Flash: Norm Chow Wanted Matt Leinart Instead of Vince Young
by Jimmy on Aug 27, 2008 4:08 PM CDT
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PrintFormer Titans offensive coordinator Norm Chow was on the Wake Up Zone on 104.5 this morning and had this to say about the 3rd pick in the 2006 NFL Draft:
"Everyone knew who I wanted and... the minute that they took Vince I told my wife, 'I think my days are numbered here.'"
Obviously Chow is talking about Leinart. So basically the Chow VY relationship was doomed from the beginning. What I can't figure out is did he say this because he didn't think VY would fit his system, or because he didn't think VY was good enough to play quarterback in the NFL. Either way it is a terrible attitude to have, and it goes a long way in explaining why he and VY never seemed to mesh.
You can say what you want about VY's progression so far, but Leinart has been worse. I know Leinart has had some injury issues, but even when he has been healthy he hasn't been any good, and keep in mind that he has not one but two receivers in Arizona that are 100 times better than anyone here.
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"Everyone knew who I wanted and... the minute that they took Vince I told my wife, 'I think my days are numbered here.'"
Spoken like a true champion.
/sincere
Michael Roos doesn't eat pitas because NOTHING BREAKS THE POCKET ON HIS WATCH!!!
Or he could have meant
That because they didn’t honor his request for the QB he really wanted, that he figured he wasn’t going to be a good fit (coach / owner won’t listen to me). Impossible to know what he meant exactly, but any way you cut it he wasn’t the right OC, and Leinart probably wasn’t the right QB.
I was rooting for Cutler, personally – but I was excited by the VY pick too.
Uh hmm... Annnnnyway...
…I hear that Mike Heimerdinger is a pretty awesome OC. Glad we got him and can’t wait to see the offense in full swing this year.
Superman was an amateur.
by MilkyWhiteNegro on Aug 27, 2008 5:45 PM CDT reply actions
2 years of Chow
was too much…..
he was terrible at find the correct play to run….his schemes were bad….he had bad instincts and no guts…..
Leinart
Leinart and Young have been equally bad. Titans would have been so much better off with Cutler, but that was tough to see because he played for a bad school.
Not to folks who saw every home game he played
and every away game that was on TV… I begged and pleaded for Cutler then and Bennett this off season.
No comment on the Vince slight; you kids have already convinced yourselves that VY’s accomplishments never happened and only his bad plays exist.
Michael Roos doesn't eat pitas because NOTHING BREAKS THE POCKET ON HIS WATCH!!!
Maybe, but Vince was AMAZING with a capital Z during the Rose Bowl.
I wanted VY, and I was way glad that the Titans took him. Plus, given the team’s history with using QB mobiliy successfully (see also: McNair in Super Bowl, etc.), I thought then (and still do) that VY was the right choice for this team. Maybe not every team, but this team.
And I’m not gonna say that VY can’t or won’t do it at the pro level until he has pro-caliber receivers. If he was playing with AZ’s receivers, I dare say the team would have looked a lot better at least twice this preseason.
Besides which, he played well in his rookie season. He didn’t play well last year. So I think you’d have to say that THIS is the really telling year for what kind of career we can expect him to have long-term.
DannoE
Go read FRIDAY MAD SCIENCE at www.paperbackreader.com
Go Titans!
cutler
cutler took over a 7-5 team that was currently sitting in a playoff spot and let them OUT of the playoffs…..then followed that up by leading a veteran Denver team with a solid defense to an underwhelming season where the “Great Leader” Shanahan is on the hotseat for the first time ever….
cutler has good stats and is bad in the win/loss column…..
Ughh
If you think Denver had a good defense last year you are sadly mistaken.
Cutler is more of a QB than Vince Young will ever be. Also, you know I too am glad that you guys took Vince Young because it means your team is set back at LEAST 4-6 years while my team, the Colts, continues to stack up on talent.
Heck the Texans will probably pass you guys this year.
by MasterRWayne on Aug 28, 2008 10:02 AM CDT up reply actions
That is what everyone keeps saying,
but let me ask you this, How have the Texans improved since last season?
Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles
Best part is, if VY does improve, you twerps won't even give him credit for it.
because for a guy who’s ‘set us back’, your boys sure have a hard time beating him so far!
Michael Roos doesn't eat pitas because NOTHING BREAKS THE POCKET ON HIS WATCH!!!
by August West on Aug 28, 2008 10:16 AM CDT up reply actions
See, this is why I dislike you RWayne.
It’s the “ever” in that statement. You can make an argument that VY is behind Cutler now. I wouldn’t agree, but you can say it and defend it on the merits.
But then saying Cutler will ALWAYS be better is just foolish. You don’t know. No one knows.
DannoE
Go read FRIDAY MAD SCIENCE at www.paperbackreader.com
Go Titans!
almost all of the people who really hammer VY make the same damn mistake.
mostly because they either have an axe to grind, or they’re so dumb they always speak in hyperbolic absolutes… it makes me go further the opposite direction.
Michael Roos doesn't eat pitas because NOTHING BREAKS THE POCKET ON HIS WATCH!!!
by August West on Aug 28, 2008 10:30 AM CDT up reply actions
It's just weird. I mean, Eli Manning was pedestrian at best for 3/4 of last year.
But he was GREAT for the last quarter, the one that really mattered. So, bottom line, you’d think folks would allow for the possibility of growth, especially since Eli’s last name is “Manning”.
DannoE
Go read FRIDAY MAD SCIENCE at www.paperbackreader.com
Go Titans!
They're blinded by play style.
Colts fans watch, every week, one of the greatest traditional QBs ever to play the game. So, since Peyton is so very very good (and he is, I just wish he played in a different division), they can’t conceive that a QB who doesn’t play the way Peyton does can ever have success.
I have to say, after hearing the clip replayed on 104.5 this morning
Chow did say ‘I had no problem with Vince and still have no problem with Vince’. It made the whole statement sound like more of an indictment of the front office and Fisher’s faith in him, than throwing VY under the bus.
Still a dumb, cry-baby thing to say.
Michael Roos doesn't eat pitas because NOTHING BREAKS THE POCKET ON HIS WATCH!!!
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