Your right on that front as I know all too well after yesterday.
You know what,I completely forgot about Mr Dream Team Vince Young, and now that you mention him, I can see why Locker has been taken too by the Titans faithful so quickly.
Lets just say for one second that Locker and Young posses the same skill set, I know they don`t but lets just say they do for one second, what separates those to players, character, Vince Young is has some of the worst character issues I have seen in any player little own a first round, future of the franchise QB, constant rows with Jeff Fisher and the coaching staff, storming off the field after a loss claiming he`d never play for the Titans again, I remember too that on one occasion he had a row with somebody on a plane? Can`t quite remember. All sorts of problems off the field, which overshadowed any skill he had on it.
Now he`s out of a job just like JaMurcus Russell, in a ton of debt and he has only himself to blame.
Did you see Cam Newton`s interview last night after their loss to the Cowboys? If not I would watch it, very interesting, I would see him going the same way at some point, not to the extent of Young, but he looked incredibly confused in the interview and was ranting on about suggestion boxes, I don`t think he will start going off on one at coach staff etc, but his head is definitely not in the game right now.
Regardless of that, I would have hated it if he was the QB of the Buccaneers, the Titans are not the Jets or the Cowboys, you don`t want off the field player issues affecting the harmony in the locker room, you don`t want news paper headlines for all the wrong reasons, it does the team not good and to be quite frank it`s embarrassing to see as a fan.
I would imagine you where pleased as punch when the Titans released him, even if you lose a QB who you have invested a lot of money into, at least you have that virus like player out of the locker room.
Anyway back to Jake Locker, don`t get me wrong he looks real good at times, hes one of those QB`s that I haven't really seen much off, so I ask you as a Titans fan what you guys who have seen him think, not because I think hes no good. I think the run game would help his development a lot though, I know you need a balanced offense, and you need one to work for the other to work, but if Chris Johnson can once again make defenses respect the run game then, there could be more deep for Locker, if you have safety's guarding the run more often you can get much more 1 n 1 coverage down the field.
The weapons are there also, Kenny Britt (providing hes not suspended) Jared Cook and Nate Washington are all threats.
You say about decision making and that reminds me very much of Josh Freeman, some days he`ll be on fire, he has a cannon of an arm also, but sometimes he`ll play like an absolute dog and throw bad interceptions just generally making poor decisions, he played well yesterday 430 yards and 3 TD`s and 0 picks, but the only problem I had was on that 4th and goal (don`t know if you say it?) where he rolled out to the right and just sort of fell over without seemingly making any attempt to get the ball in the endzone.
But hes getting better, last year under Raheem Morris he really took a step backwards. That may have been down to the play calling also I don`t know? But this year he looks more like a leader, Vincent Jackson helps, but the work in the off-season has been beneficial.
Moral of that is, as you say decision making is something that can be ironed out and improved with time.
Did Locker go out injured last year also? Or am I deluded?
