Dan Pompei

On the subject of Vince Young, all of the attention this offseason has been focused on the mistake he made in a strip club. None of the attention has been on the mistakes he has made on the field.

But that’s because he has made so few of them.

Lost in the hubbub about Young apparently busting someone in the chops at a nudie bar is the fact that the kid has had one heck of an offseason — when he’s had a football in his hand.

Last year, the Titans quarterback looked like he was turning the corner in his career. He won eight of his last 10 starts, has a career best 82.8 passer rating and a career high 7.3 yards per attempt.

But he left plenty of room for improvement. Young completed only 59 percent of his passes and really took a back seat to Chris Johnson in the Titans offense.

So in the offseason, the Tennessee coaching staff had three priorities for Young. They wanted him to improve his accuracy, especially on the gimme throws. They wanted him to get better at passing to his left. And they wanted him to expand his understanding of the offense.

According to Titans offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger, Young has made strides in all of those areas—as well as others. Heimerdinger said he was really, really pleased with Young’s offseason performances.

“He didn’t make a lot of silly mistakes,” Heimerdinger said. “Overall, the ball was going in the right place. When he did make a mistake, he could turn to me immediately and say, ‘I forced that, I shouldn’t have gone there.’ He knew what was going on. I felt pretty good about where we were at throwing the ball. His accuracy got better on the things we worked on.”

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The silly mistake Young made in June in a Dallas strip club was not the kind of mistake NFL teams expect their quarterbacks and leaders to be making. And while NFL commissioner Roger Goodell planned on speaking with Young, neither the Titans nor the NFL seemed to be terribly disturbed about the incident.

He has made some similar unfortunate headlines in the past, but most of his transgressions have been on the mild side. And it’s easy enough to blame them on youth. After all, Young is only 27.

“I don’t worry about him,” Heimerdinger said. “He owned up to it right away, I thought he handled it really well. He came out and told the team, ‘I made a mistake. Don’t put yourself in those situations.’ He’s getting there.”

The potential is there with Young, both as a quarterback and a man. His strip club incident might be viewed with less tolerance if he were a third stringer fighting for a roster spot. But the truth is his talent and room to grow gives Young some wiggle room.

If we have already seen all that Young can be, it might be easy to try to find someone who throws more accurately and behaves more appropriately. But many people in the league believe Young is capable of reaching much higher.

Heimerdinger is one of those. “The two of us have really only been together for 10 games,” he said. “I have some growing to go with him to find out what he is comfortable with still and he has some growing to do in this offense. I’m hoping he improves as much this year as he did last year.”

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