Tennessee Titans Thursday Morning Linkage

why Big Al and Pacman hate each other???
Was there a fight? What caused it? When did it happen?
I think I missed those headlines...

 I feel Mawae did go out on a limb just a bit when talking about Young.
This was the most telling statement:

"He's got to be committed to becoming an NFL quarterback. What I mean by that is it's not enough to be an athlete running around any more. He's got to become a student of the game, be able to know our game plan inside and out so if things don't go the way he thinks they go, he has the ability to go in there and say, `Hey, we should run this' or `I am going to call this play' or that kind of thing.

I interpret that as him saying Young needs to work at understanding the formations, who should be in on what plays and being able to react with who you have in the huddle.  It is a fast moving game.  Being able to adapt with the circumstance is key to a completing a drive or punting it away.  Is Young able to think on his feet?

 Do I think he is addressing Young's work ethic.  Possibly, but I am not convinced enough to say an outright yes.  The reason I say possibly is:  why wasn't he (Mawae) in on the day they cleaned out their lockers?  Was he trying to avoid Young and hope his words would get to him through the media?  Who knows? Maybe he had different plans that day and had nothing to do with his statement.

  Mawae apparently feels that Young does not know the game inside out.  Is that expected of someone in their second season?  I don't know that either. I will give Young the benefit of the doubt this season, next year I won't.  I would think Young should be getting a very good idea of who should be in a play by now, but then again so should the coaches.   Really this is a lot of speculation until more statements are made.

This makes me think of the commercial where Matt Hasselbeck is reading to his girls and if he wants them to go to sleep he gets out the playbook and thats all it takes, because it is so boring.
  I wonder if Young opens up his playbook at home and goes over it? and does he fall asleep?

Sorry Mawae, but if you think Vince Young is smart enough to study the game, you're mistaken... can you say, 'single digit Wonderlic'?  We need a quarterback who can quickly read the defense for the called play and determine whether there is a higher probability of success by calling an audible.  And if you call an audible, identify the best play that gives us the highest probability of scoring against that defense. But if your quarterback doesn't know how much change you should get back when you give the clerk $1 for a bar of candy that costs 50 cents, forget about figuring out probabilities.  Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner whose team ended up #3 in scoring in the red zone said, "The good teams in the red zone are the ones who can run the ball in and just say, 'We're going to dominate the line of scrimmage.' And there are the ones that say, 'Things might break down, things might not be perfect.' But you find a way to get it done.".  Hey, we have the #5 rushing team in the NFL so we meet that requirement!!  But he also mentions,
"Many of those scoring plays have been improvised, Warner said. "We try to design plays," he said, "but things don't quite measure up like they do when you're on the 50-yard line, with spacing and all of that."  Vince improvises after the play breaks down.  He needs to improvise with audibles before the play starts.

Well Big Bad Bulluck, after reading the article posted above, I guess you know more about the Wonderlic test and how to draft football players than all the NFL Football General Managers and Scouts do which includes Houston.  My apologies.