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The Titans have had two rookie quarterback since I started this blog. My first season was 2006. The blog started right before Vince Young took over as the starter during that season. Things have changed a lot since then, but if you were around here back then, you know how badly I wanted VY to succeed.
In fact, I was all in after his rookie year. I hung on every positive thing he did in a football game- even when the negative things he was doing were far outweighing the positives. "But look at this throw, or this play" I would say as proof that Vince would eventually be a good quarterback.
That went south, and the Titans turned to Jake Locker a few years later. I was, and still am, in love with Jake Locker the person as a quarterback. He has all of the traits you want in your quarterback from a personality standpoint. The same cycle happened with Jake that it did with Vince. I tried to hang on to the glimpses of positive that I saw all the while ignoring the negative.
I remember thinking one day, while watching the beat reporters tweet out Jake Locker's numbers from a training camp practice, "I bet the beat writers in Green Bay don't tweet out Aaron Rodgers's numbers from a training camp practice." I should have been smart enough to figure out right then that Locker wasn't the guy.
This line of thinking started earlier today when I saw these Tweets from Rivers McCown earlier today:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I think approaching the quarterback position with skepticism rather than optimism leads to better evaluations. Thoughts?</p>— Rivers McCown (@riversmccown) <a href="https://twitter.com/riversmccown/status/531886713795133442">November 10, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>It feels like it's really commonplace to say a quarterback has "promise" on one or two throws, then overlook a lot of glaring flaws.</p>— Rivers McCown (@riversmccown) <a href="https://twitter.com/riversmccown/status/531887089504096257">November 10, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>... And then it's easy to use that "promise" to overpromote a quarterback's chances of improvement. It's a really silly cycle. That's all.</p>— Rivers McCown (@riversmccown) <a href="https://twitter.com/riversmccown/status/531888231042666497">November 10, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>(I do wonder how much of the "promise" trap occurs because of what I'd term the prevalent coach mindset of "we can correct _____")</p>— Rivers McCown (@riversmccown) <a href="https://twitter.com/riversmccown/status/531892328055570432">November 10, 2014</a></blockquote>
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