Sad to say, but Young's problems were predictable (we pave the road to failure for black boys)

FOX Sports on MSN ^ | 11 Sep | Jason Whitlock

[colorado tanker]

I don't buy this. There have been successful black quarterbacks and there have been highly drafted whites who also crapped out.

I'm sure glad we got Cutler instead of Leinart.

[Darren McCarty]

I'd still take "black qb" Vince Young over top three pick and "white qb" Joey Harrington.

What a disaster that was.

I'd like to see the media eliminate the position of "black quarterback." It was never a position when I played. We simply had "quarterback".

[Lancey Howard]

The thrust of Rush’s attack was on a liberal sports media that lionized a black quarterback...any black quarterback. He never said McNabb wasn’t a good QB, just an overrated one.

What you said is dead on.

The liberal newsrooms (including sports) love a politically correct story that makes them feel warm and fuzzy about themselves. "The black quarterback who becomes a superstar, a superbowl champion!!" - - is the story they wanted. They wanted that story very badly and their lust caused them to openly root for that story before it became a reality (and it still hasn't, btw). Rush believed that this overhype needlessly put added pressure on McNabb by producing unrealistic expectations, all in the name of white-guilt phoniness.

It's much like the currect Obama story....

[TennTuxedo]

As a Tennessee Titans fan, I have never looked at the play of Vince Young as a "white QB-versus black QB" issue.

VY is a quarterback...period.

VY is a QB who has not been able to master the NFL passing game and the fact that he has not been able to fare well in the mastery of it, just eats at him and affects is game.

God forbid he play in Philadelphia, New York, or Boston!

[sticker]

Ever listen to 104.5 in the afternoon, especially this week. Half the callers are saying none of it was Young's fault it was the receivers

[j_k_l]

"Ever listen to 104.5 in the afternoon, especially this week. Half the callers are saying none of it was Young's fault it was the receivers"

More of a Thom Abraham guy but I will have to say this for the 104.5 callers, Titans receivers are    s    l    o    w    . There were several passes that an average receiver could have caught up to.

[The Lumster]

Vince Young, like a lot of young African-American men, desperately needs to hear the truth from the people who love him. Too often we pave the road to failure for black boys by believing the cure for bigotry — and there is still plenty of bigotry in America — is the ability to recognize it in (and blame it for) everything. That cure has more negative side effects than most of the drugs trumpeted by the pharmaceutical companies in television commercials. That cure serves as a convenient crutch, and turns a talent such as Vince Young into a quitter the moment adversity strikes. That cure helped land Michael Vick in jail.

Whitlock better be careful - he'll be getting the 'Bill Cosby' treatment from his peeps

[DemonDeac]

Not really. He wasn’t talking about McNabb’s attitude or maturity or anything like that. He was talking about on-field performance.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The main crux was, McNabb came from a two-parent family...

Thanks for informing me. I only knew about Donovan's Mom, since my QB genealogy research was limited to their soup commercials, where Donovan's Dad wasn't present.