Listen to Vince Young's Mom

As the week of Vince Young's sadness has wrapped up, the general lesson has been that we (and by we, I mean Jeff Fisher and the Nashville media) need to calm down when a possibly depressed quarterback goes MIA during Packers-Vikes. But Friday night it became apparent the real lesson is that we should pay a lot more mind to Young's mom than Fisher or anyone else.

A police report taken Monday night has Young's therapist telling Fisher (who then told police) the QB had mentioned suicide several times before heading out with a gun in the glove compartment.

The Titans didn't comment on the police report, and Fisher seems to have gone mum. Young, a proud kid, is still pushing the angle that he's fine, he was fine, and everyone needs to chill.

Young seemed happy and laughed a bit Thursday when he discussed the past few days with reporters. He blamed his mother for overreacting and the media for making too much of nothing.

"Now I am OK. I was never depressed. I just hurt a little bit ... When it happens again, I'll know how to handle it," Young said.

Young's mom sounded the alarm early on. If dude was really talking about suicide with his therapist ... that alarm definitely should have been ringing. If not for motherly concern and the police report, this really would have blown over and no one would be the wiser that this kid is hurtin' bad. And yeah, it's probably none of our business -- Young owes us nothing, as Spencer Hall argued earlier this week. But reality seems like a sharp, sharp contrast from the story the Titans (specifically Fisher) have spun.

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