VY wants to retire?

i see nothing wrong with it. if the fire is gone, it's gone.

it would suck for those of us that saw him since his days at Madison, but he needs to take care of himself and those around him.

Further, i like that he got a guaranteed contract. I support him as a player doing this knowing the history the NFL has had in using and abusing players and then leaving them out to dry. A young man sticking it to the man after walking away with millions is not a bad thing here, the greedy owners have been doing just the opposite for a while now.
 
Would it be weird for a 25 year old man to write Vince a letter telling him how awesome he is? I read on the Titans site how some people's kids are doing this... I wish I had kids so I could make them do it.
 
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Draft status for Texas grads may be in jeopardy. First all the crap with Rickey, now Vince questioning playing. The two biggest names to come out of Texas in the last decade (or so) both hang it up early, not good.
 
I'm concerned that the psychologist's diagnosis is now out there for everyone to see. I know that injury reports of athletes are supposed to be public, but disclosing the results of a psychological evaluation seems like a terrible breach of confidentiality and privacy. Or maybe someone in the Titans organization leaked it?
 
I disagree it will have any impact on our recruits. You could counter Ricky (who is back in the league, fought hard to overcome an illness to be there now and is popular with many around the league and fans) and Ced with a host of names that are positive parts of their team and represent well. VY is not in that mix. He is his own guy.

Any team or owner takes individuals into account. They may look at system but in the end it is what that one player can do for their team. That is it. Teams don't take chances on unproductive players in college because they come from a school where a stud did.

An RB can tear it up and it does not mean his backup will go to the NFL in two years, does it? Ray Lewis, Rae Carruth, Pac Man Jones and others like that...will teams take players from their colleges?
 
I don't care if VY plays another down in the NFL, as long as VY can live a healthy life and not do anything stupid to himself or someone else.
 
It has been noted in a couple of places that VY looked the same way he did after the Holiday Bowl v. Wazzou. That was the day he realized his talent was not enough by itself to win any longer. That he needed to do a lot of work to be a QB, that Vince being Vince was not going to cut it.

If he had that same type of look or feeling then he is depressed. The go home and cry and soul search for a couple of weeks till the new semester starts type of searching. That is depression, not being depressed. There is nothing wrong with it either.

I think he has a good network of people around him and he knows he has the fans support here no matter what his decision is. He will make the right one in the end and I will applaud it, no matter what it is.

But I hope that he sends me a pm beforehand so I can drop him as my fantasy back-up before somebody thwarts my efforts. Go get 'em VY.
 
I can relate to this IF IF IF this is true.

I played non-stop basketball since I was 6 years old. Out of high school I had about 20 scholarships to some semi-big name schools (Albany,V-Tech, Santa Barbara, etc) and I declined them all because I lost the desire and was burned out. And now I am having the most fun I've ever had in my life being a regular student at college.

Don't know if this info is true. Just saying if it is I can relate
 
if he really is burned out by football and wants out...more power to him...its his decision to make, not ours, not titans fans, not jeff fisher...not anyone but his...and if its the decision that he decides to make, then i hope for his sake, that he finds something else to do in life that will bring him the happiness that football is not...and that something needs to not be drugs...lol...we dont want another ricky williams...
 
It's normal to have all this speculation under the circumstances, but we really do not know whether there is much validity to this. I'm just still hoping for the best.
 
Whatever Vince decides, I hope he's happy. The man has brought so much football joy into my life and the lives of ALL Longhorn fans.

No matter what he does, he'll always be a Longhorn and CFB legend.

Hook 'em Vince!
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Good grief! VInce got booed then got injured. Of course he feels down. Then he decides to get out of the house and go for a drive without his cellphone and everyone overreacts. With his friends he was talking things out and went to extremes, as many do when working out a problem, and said maybe I should quit football.

Is there any psychiatrist who doesn't think everyone suffers from some sort of depression?

Vince will be fine. He's still a young kid and just needs some room and time to work this out. When he heals up he'll come back strong.

It's obvious that the press is trying to create more of this than there is and as a result throwing gas on the fire.
 
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