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Vince Young benched for preseason opener for violating curfew. Spent the night at home instead of team hotel for some reason.

Mess with his teammates and Vince Young will knock you the heck out. Okay maybe not, but he’s going to make sure you know when he’s not happy.

Today Tennessee Titan safety and special teamer Donnie Nickey learned one more way Vince isn’t your normal quarterback. He’s not afraid of a little confrontation. After a neck high tackle by Nickey on wide receiver Courtney Roby, Young got in Nickey’s face and let him have it over the dirty play. After Nickey shoved him, Young shoved back and took a swing at him with his right hand.

He’s lucky he didn’t land a solid shot and that he avoided serious injury. Not a smart move at all by Vince to go after the guy with his throwing hand but it’s good to see him standing up for his receivers. He’s got to be able to control it but this kind of fire is exactly why Vince is able to get his teammates to play so well around him. By the time practice was over everyone had cooled down but I bet Vince earned a little more respect from guys on both sides of the football.

Nickey may be a little dirty and may not be too bright manning up with the franchise QB, but at least he had some amusing comments on the situation. He put Vince and President Bush up on the same level (and in that order) and had some advice for the next time Young wants to scrap: “At least not with your right hand man. Jab with the left and wait for the cavalry.” With all the former Longhorns on the roster, that seems like some pretty sound advice.

Update: Added an image of the “punch” courtesy of Tummer over at Orangebloods. (8/2/2007)

Update 2: Video from a local Nashville newscast added below after the jump. (8/4/2007)

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A great new Vince Young highlight video featuring highlights from his rookie season in Tennessee. Some good clips of Merril Hoge making an ass of himself interspersed throughout.

Can’t wait to see Vince progress this fall, I’ll be tuned into every game. Team has fallen back a little around him this offseason so it’ll take big things from Vince for the Titans to be 8 and 8 again.

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Vince Young was a decent football player at Texas and these highlights of the 2002 US Army All-American Bowl proves he was pretty decent in high school too:

Pretty fun stuff to watch. I think there was even a Clint Haney sighting. I didn’t remember how skinny Vince was when he first got on campus. You could really see he was special back then, even though he wasn’t “as polished as McNeal.” Ha.