When the Tennessee Titans were 0-3 to start the NFL season, many pundits were shocked and asked head coach Jeff Fisher to make a quarterback switch from the older Kerry Collins to the franchise player Vince Young. The coach did not think it was necessary to push panic button for a team that made the postseason the year before.

Now Fisher says Young is a different person compared to the quarterback he benched last season with the team currently riding a three-game winning streak.

Obviously everyone did not know what they were talking about when the losses kept piling up. Fisher had a third overall pick sitting with clipboards and he initially had designed his excuses for the team’s losses to take the blame away from Collins. But by the time the Titans were humiliated 59-0 by the New England Patriots, owner Bud Adams could not take it anymore.

Tennessee had a bye week and Adams told Fisher to start Young. Well the rest is history, but what is more surprising is not that Young has transformed the mentality of his Tennessee team mates with the Titans 3-0 in their last three encounters, it is that coach Fisher actually thinks this is a different Young compared to the same person he had last season.

“There’s a different person wearing number 10,” Fisher told Steve Mariucci of NFL Network's The Coaches Show.

Unfortunately for Fisher, whether he was praising his quarterback or not, this is the same Young he pulled after making a mistake in the season opener last year against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Maybe the quality of oppositions Young has played do not fall into the tougher list that Collins lost all his six starts against, they both have the luxury of the same personnel on the field and the sidelines. Though Young has led the team to home victories over the Jaguars and Buffalo Bills, he also led Tennessee to a road win in San Francisco. Before you even say the 49ers are not a good team, their record is 4-5 and currently second in the NFC West.

Also it is important to note that Collins lost to the Jaguars 37-17, while Young led the Titans to a 30-13 win over the same team.

The reality is Fisher should have made the switch a lot sooner, but he wanted control and would not adjust to the outside influences asking for that switch, which counts as well especially from the fans and most importantly the owner.

If the Titans owner had not made the call, who knows what Tennessee’s record would be at the moment? They might be competing with St. Louis Rams, Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Detroit Lions all with one win each.

Whatever Fisher is doing to Young right now to push him, he should have done that after the third week of the season before the Titans played the Jaguars in Jacksonville. At that point the Jaguars were 1-2, looked vulnerable and Young would have used that game as his motivation to show he should have been allowed to play last season.

Looking at the Titans record, and it you remember, they can finish the season 8-8. That was the same record they had in Young’s rookie season when he won the NFL’s Rookie of the Year award. Maybe he is not in contention for the MVP, but amongst his Titans team mates, he is their MVP and Fisher knows he made a serious mistake that might have cost the team a postseason spot.