Tag: Vince Young

Texas football all-time roster: Offensive starters and backups

See which legends made the cut in our all-time Texas Longhorns football roster, starting with the offensive starters and backups.

Texas’ football program was once viewed as one of the most storied and respected programs in the country.

Although the Longhorns have failed to live up to lofty expectations as of late, several individual players found their fair share of success throughout their time in Austin.

When taking a look at the all-time rosters, it’s impossible not to think of former Texas greats such as Vince Young, Earl Campbell, Ricky Williams and Colt McCoy.

Longhorns Wire took a look at which legends made the cut in our all-time Texas Longhorns football roster, starting with the offensive starters and backups.

Vince Young reveals the potential plan for five-star quarterback Arch Manning

Vince Young believes redshirting would benefit Arch Manning.

Texas fans are already chomping at the bit to see five-star quarterback Arch Manning take snaps in the Burnt Orange.

Longhorn faithful may have to be patient with Manning getting on the field according to Texas quarterback legend Vince Young.

Young made an appearance on ESPN’s First Take on Thursday where he stated that he’s heard Manning use a redshirt in his first college season.

“I really feel like Arch has a great opportunity. One of the things that I am hearing is that he is going to redshirt. That’s going to help out a lot so you can understand how to travel with the team, get the feel of the fans, the university. So, when you have those types of things and you take a year off like when I played with Coach [Mack] Brown, I redshirted. And I feel like that redshirt year helped me understand how to be a quarterback at the University of Texas, and then what you go through, traveling and things like that.”

Manning’s redshirting resolves the potential quarterback battle between him and Quinn Ewers. Texas is set up to have Ewers lead the offense for the 2022 and 2023 seasons. Manning will compete for the job going into his redshirt freshman season.

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Where Quinn Ewers, Arch Manning land in 247Sports’ highest-rated QB’s of all time

Incredible how much talent Texas has at QB for the foreseeable future.

Steve Sarkisian has suddenly turned Texas into one of the premier destinations for some of the most talented quarterbacks in the country. Continue reading “Where Quinn Ewers, Arch Manning land in 247Sports’ highest-rated QB’s of all time”

Every Texas Longhorns passing leader since 2000

A look at Texas’ passing leaders for each season since 2000. How many can you name?

Texas has had several elite quarterbacks come through the Forty Acres over the years. Continue reading “Every Texas Longhorns passing leader since 2000”

Texas quarterback target Arch Manning ranks as the consensus No. 1 overall recruit

The Longhorns are in great position to potentially land the consensus No. 1 overall recruit for the 2023 cycle.

In what may be the most important recruiting battle of the class, the Longhorns are looking to fend off both Georgia and Alabama for the services of five-star Arch Manning. Continue reading “Texas quarterback target Arch Manning ranks as the consensus No. 1 overall recruit”

Ex-Titans head coach Jeff Fisher defends his record with QBs

Jeff Fisher defended himself against people who say he hasn’t had enough success with quarterbacks.

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Former Tennessee Titans head coach Jeff Fisher, who is now leading the USFL’s Michigan Panthers, recently defended himself against critics who believe he ruins quarterbacks.

Fisher was a guest on the Number One Ranked Show and cited people on social media mockingly calling him the “quarterback whisperer” and saying he doesn’t know how to develop or coach players at the position.

However, Fisher defended himself and noted his past with the Titans as evidence that his record with quarterbacks isn’t as bad as it’s made out to be.

“I got caught up in some of the social media stuff,” Fisher admitted. “They were calling me – facetiously – ‘quarterback whisperer,’ like I just ruin quarterbacks. Well, go fact check your world … before you start saying things.

“We had success [with the Titans]. We had a lot of success.”

Fisher did oversee at least some success with drafted quarterbacks like Steve McNair and Vince Young, as well as with an already-established Kerry Collins.

McNair won a co-MVP and helped lead the Titans to their lone Super Bowl appearance, Collins was a Pro Bowler in 2008, and Young won Offensive Rookie of the Year in his first season.

“We were patient with him,” Fisher said of McNair. “He was just a fierce competitor, and it took us some time. At that time, we laid it out and said, ‘Look, this is going to be our guy. We’re going to take him. We can’t tell you when he’s going to be ready. But we’ll know.’

“He got all the experience he needed to get over a couple of years, and then we took off and we ran with him. And we did very well with him.”

However, the rapid decline of Young, who has admitted in the past to having issues with Fisher, remains a stain on the head coach’s tenure in Nashville.

Fisher’s stint with the Rams was not good. On top of shoddy quarterback play from guys like Sam Bradford, Nick Foles, Case Keenum and Jared Goff, the Rams went 31-45-1 under Fisher over four-plus seasons.

Fisher, who remains the winningest coach in franchise history, will now be tasked with bringing along quarterbacks Paxton Lynch and Shea Patterson, both of whom were drafted by the Panthers after unsuccessful stints in the NFL.

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Former five-star QB Quinn Ewers has a lot to prove as a Longhorn

The pressure is only growing for Ohio State transfer Quinn Ewers.

The hype has always been there, but now it is time for Quinn Ewers to show the country why he was once rated as the No. 1 overall player with a perfect prospect grade.

His first college season was unlike any we had ever seen before, as rather than finishing out his senior year of high school at Southlake Carroll, Ewers decided to cash in on some major NIL deals while at Ohio State.

The only issue with him going to Ohio State at the time he did, was the fact that the Buckeyes were already in the middle of a three-horse race at quarterback that never gave him a chance to truly contend with eventual Heisman finalist C.J. Stroud.

Transferring to Texas gave him a chance to return to his home state, and more importantly, it gives him a prime opportunity to start immediately. There is only one person standing between Ewers and the starting job, which is third-year player Hudson Card.

Many believe and expect that Ewers should beat out Card, but the pressure on Ewers does not stop there. 247Sports views Ewers as one the many former five-stars that need to step up and have something to prove in 2022.

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Longhorns fans are hoping that Ewers is able to show the world why he was rated as highly as was, while also finally becoming the quarterback that brings Texas back to its glory days of Colt McCoy and Vince Young.

10 worst free-agent signings in Eagles franchise history

10 worst #NFL #freeagent signings in #Philadelphia #Eagles team history the 2022 legal tampering period is set to open

NFL teams make some of the worst decisions when it comes to the process of properly evaluating and, or adding big named free agent talents to the roster. When it works, it can change your organization’s path to success, while leading to multiple playoffs or Super Bowl runs.

When it doesn’t work, it can be disastrous with costly consequences from the general manager all the way down to personnel.

We’ve compiled a list of the ten worst free-agent signings in the Eagles’ team history and almost added Eric Wilson (2021) to the list before placing him among the honorable mentions list.

Texas featured in ESPN’s 60 best games of the 2000’s

Texas has been a part of many of the best college football games of the century.

College football is one of the most unpredictable and crazy sports in the world. Fans have been treated to a countless number of incredible games over the past 21 years.

ESPN’s Bill Connelly decided to narrow down the best of the best, ranking the top 60 college football games of the 2000s.

If you ever find yourself falling out of love with this often-ridiculous sport, if you ever find your eye wandering to what other sports have to offer, pull up a random game from this list and fall in love all over again.

Texas was a part of six of the 60 games on Connelly’s list, going 5-1 in those matchups. The only loss came at the hands of Michael Crabtree and Texas Tech in 2008.

Both of Vince Young’s historic Rose Bowl performances made the cut, along with the 2018 Red River Shootout where Sam Ehlinger outdueled Kyler Murray.

Here is where all six Texas games rank on the best 60 games since 2000:

WATCH: 16 years ago today, Vince Young’s heroics led Texas to a national championship

Best game ever?

When Texas fans refer to being back, they are reminiscing of the glory and success that Vince Young helped the program reach 16 years ago today.

The former Longhorn and college football legend led Texas to a historically successful season that he capped off with a clutch touchdown to win it all, and contribute to the end of USC’s dynasty.

Even with all the years and other great games that have passed, the 2006 Rose Bowl matchup that featured Young and the Longhorns against Reggie Bush and the Trojans is widely considered the best championship game of all time.

This remains especially true when you factor in the amount of talent that saw the field or was on the sidelines that day. In total, there were 62 NFL players apart of the game with 35 from USC, and 27 from Texas, and 14 of the players went on to be selected in the first round of the NFL draft.

As we all know, Texas came out victorious 41-38 but it was the manner in which they won that really resonates until this day.

There is a hope and expectation that Steve Sarkisian and Quinn Ewers, who was tied for the highest recruiting ranking ever with Young and a handful of other players, can replicate the success that Young brought to Texas with his run.