Vince Young sees himself as a starter
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Vince Young sees himself as a starter
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Vince Young, the Eagles' backup quarterback last year, sees himself as a starting quarterback and he credits Andy Reid for that confidence.
Young says he asked Reid about returning to the Eagles for next season, but Reid told him he should try to be a starter somewhere. Obviously, that was not going to be the case with the Birds.
"I asked Andy, ‘could I be part of the team again?’ He was like ‘I would love for you to stay here but you’re not a backup quarterback’ so when I heard the big guy, big red, say that it showed me more confidence and more respect that he had for me when he said he wanted to see me somewhere playing," Young told KILT radio in Houston, according to sportsradiointerviews.com. "I can truly understand that and they wanted to give Mike Kafka a little more of a chance to go out and compete and backup up Mike Vick but basically he didn’t see me backing up again. He felt like I should be starting somewhere and playing so that’s just the respect he had for me and saw the hard work that I put in to get better as quarterback last year with those guys.”
Young appeared in six games for the Eagles, starting three. He had four TDs, nine interceptions and was sacked eight times, but did lead the Eagles to a win over the Giants late in the season.
He now is waiting for an opportunity with another team after the draft.
“We have a couple of teams with interest right now and I’m just sitting back and waiting and letting my agent, Tom Condon, do his work," he said. "Pretty much just waiting till after the draft with the new CBA rule, all the different cap rules and things like that, just looking for the best opportunity for myself, my family and for me to go out and compete for a starting job.”
Young's tenure in Philadelphia, though, likely will be summed up in two words, "Dream Team."
“Everybody keeps putting it in the wrong sequence," Young insisted. "I didn’t say ‘Dream Team’ like ‘Dream Team.’ It’s like you are dreaming, like me and you dream about eating a nice burger or something, put it in those terms and just more so the respect that I have for the players from (Dominique Rodgers) Cromartie, from Nnamdi (Asomugha), to Mike Vick and the players that we had around. I was just feeling very respectful towards those guys and that’s what I meant by that situation.”
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VINCE YOUNG SUCKS! He will not be in the NFL after this year— yourdaddy!
Another surprisingly good offseason move by the Eagles. Addition by subtraction.- Reid is like one of those jerk boyfrriends, "It's not you, it's me.
The Eagles were 3-6 and about to face the hardest part of the schedule. With Vick playing the way he was, it was a good chance that the Eagles would be 3-9 after those games and even Lurie would have given up on Reid.
His plan was to sit Vick down because of his bruised ribs, which were not a problem for any other quarterback, and then he could blame Young for those losses. It almost backfired on him when Young beat the Giants with a fourth quarter drive that took over 8 minutes, (something Vick could not do) and he threw for over 400 yards againt the Pats. When Vick threwq for over 400 yards and lost against a team that was not great earlier in the season, he was called a great quarterback. When Young therw for over 400 yards and lost, it was called the most useless 400 yards in NFL history, and Young lost to the Patriots, an elite team. Only the philly sports writers had the Eagles as a favorite against the Seahawks. Young sits down and Vick comes in to play the little sister of the NFL, one of those games against a dalls team that sat all their important starters.
Hey Vince, they set you up. Any philly fan who thinks McNabb can still play and Young can't knows nothing about football. But we already knerw that.— markconte - NWBeachBum: Vince Young is not "my boy". I don't think he played well either. But he's gone and trying to find another job. All the posts bashing him are tiresome. Give it a rest. By the way, Young was the QB when the Eagles beat the Giants last year.— p-diddy
- "Vince Young sees himself as a starter" - too bad no team in the NFL thinks so! Maybe started for crew chief at McDonald's!— gdibig
- Young = LOSER— 1republican
- Eating soup when I read the headline. My monitor needs a squeegee now.— COskier
