Vince Young?

[The Shadow]

Vince Young????
God help the Packers if Rodgers goes down.

[cheesner]

He has "IT" and will win a lot of games in the NFL over his career.

Who was the Rat who called Rodger average but VY had "IT"?


Maybe they are getting real serious about defending the Pistol. They want VY so they can get the Defense used to chasing around a mobile QB. VY was always a pretty good QB, I think he can be a real good back up QB and I am interested in seeing what he can do.

Curiously, he recently defaulted on a payday cash loan of $1.9M. He made $34M in salary and another $30M in endorsements. Now let me ask you all, why would he need a payday cash loan? How can he go through $64M in 6 years? Why would any company provide that large of a payday cash loan? Is playing football motivated by a love for football or a need for a paycheck?

[digitaldean]

When you have to defend the read option you sign Vince Young
When you sign Vince Young, you end up playing him in a game to confuse the defense
When you play him, he leads a 579 yard explosion
When he leads a 579 yard explosion you have rbaloha and Partial come back and join forces with an avalanche of "I told you so" posts
When rbaloha and Partial join forces you have to drink a lot of whiskey to be able to read the site
When you drink a lot of whiskey, your liver gives out and you die.

Don't sign Vince Young and die.

You sound like a DirecTV commercial!

[digitaldean]

Well, apparently they've signed Young Vince Young.

Maybe he's the backup and they actually run him on a few plays, though I hate the idea they'd take snaps from Rodgers. That would be nuts.

Maybe he's just the backup, and the team hopes it can hide Coleman on the PS. Harrell, I dunno.

I say that VY competes with Harrell for #2. If VY wins, Harrell is gone. Coleman can either be #3 or PS and Packers pick up a final cutdown-day QB.

[Pugger]

Vince Young????
God help the Packers if Rodgers goes down.

Do you think Harrell and/or Coleman are better options?

[gbgary]

Do you think Harrell and/or Coleman are better options?

thought the same thing. young is a veteran though and he's motivated. I'd feel better with him in the game if the unthinkable should happen.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Vince Young's record as an NFL starter is 30-17. If nothing else, that's a lot of experience to have for a backup, and he's only 30.

[SkinBasket]

After a decade and a half, Ted finally signed a player with the "it" factor. This team is going places!

[Pugger]

This is kinda funny. I remember last season folks were grousing about us not signing a vet backup QB instead of going with Harrell. Now TT does and folks still don't like it.

[hoosier]

This is kinda funny. I remember last season folks were grousing about us not signing a vet backup QB instead of going with Harrell. Now TT does and folks still don't like it.

It may not be the same people. And in this case it kind of accentuates the desperation of yet another preseason injury epidemic, capped off by seeing your starting LT go down with a season-ending ACL tear. Signing Vince Young is kind of like putting your finger in the dike when there is a tsunami on the horizon.

[Zool]

Signing Vince Young is kind of like putting your finger in the dike when there is a tsunami on the horizon.

Unless of course you are a female.

[pbmax]

Well his debut was not stellar. Hit hit practice dummies while throwing to rbs in drills and in most team reps he handed off. He did launch one nice 35 yard shot to a WR. Its seems against his previous habit for McCarthy or Thompson to devote a roster spot to a player dedicated to to prep for 2 opponents during the season.

But from today's practice it wasn't clear why else he was here. Other than Coleman was nearly as bad.

[denverYooper]

Well his debut was not stellar. Hit hit practice dummies while throwing to rbs in drills and in most team reps he handed off. He did launch one nice 35 yard shot to a WR. Its seems against his previous habit for McCarthy or Thompson to devote a roster spot to a player dedicated to to prep for 2 opponents during the season.

But from today's practice it wasn't clear why else he was here. Other than Coleman was nearly as bad.

Could just be a camp body at this point, with the bonus of helping them prepare some for the Niners in the opener.

[pbmax]

Could just be a camp body at this point, with the bonus of helping them prepare some for the Niners in the opener.

Yes. M3 also all but flat said he needs remedial work on his footwork, but you don't want to spend all of his camp time on it.

So the simplest explanation might hold. He is there to scare Coleman and Harrell or take the #2 job.

[Guiness]

He is intriguing. Dude won 30 games, that's not a fluke. The Packers had other high draft choice re-treads through (Tim Couch comes to mind, and there was another...it couldn't have been Leaf, was it???) but they were never-was's. Young has shown more, who knows what his potential is? It seems like he had a mental breakdown, but with no pressure at all to start in GB, he might do well.