Time for Vince Young to play the victim
by Bryce Martin

Vince Young has had two obvious and popular choices waiting for him for quite some time.
Depression. Bipolar.
Heaven forbid that anyone in the year 2008 would accept personal responsibility when playing the victim is the new, clear way to go.
Bipolar has become extremely popular, but depression is coming on strong of late. Hollywood and its spoiled sunglasses crowd has set the tone for most of it. California really does seem to set all the trends.
No longer is a stigma attached to matters involving the inner workings of the head. In fact, it's quite trendy to be bipolar these days.
Of course, when such things as depression and bipolarism were real and complicated clinical disorders for some people, the whole concept has lost much of its true meaning when it has evolved into a convenient scapegoat for those merely irresponsible and too dumb or too absorbed to admit it.
Get the diagnosis, get some pills to make you feel good, let everyone know how much all this therapy is helping you, and you're off the hook. Just another victim, on the mend.
Still, you won't be able to throw a football any better. Or read defenses. But, when you feel this great, who cares.

Chow Must Feel Vindicated

Titans offensive coordinator Norm Chow got fired from his post when he made a major mistake. Telling the truth outside the locker room regarding Young. Chow and Young were already at odds since the quarterback did not respond well to a full season under Chow. But, when Chow told a sideline reporter on a nationally televised game at the end of last season that Young was "immature," and that reporter did Chow no favor by repeating the remark on national TV, that was the final straw. No way could it work after that. The Titans brass looked beyond Chow after that, found a replacement and sent him packing.

To see Young not even make it past his first game with a new boss had to give Chow a pick me up. Not only did Young pout big time -- a leader not even wanting to go back into battle -- right before his injury he had to be sweet-talked into even taking the field. Can you hear an I-told-you-so from way out west?

As for Young, we've already seen the script.

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