{"id":413525,"date":"2026-08-22T04:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413525\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:10:17","slug":"netflixs-untold-vince-young-doc-what-director-said-about-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413525\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix’s Untold Vince Young doc: What director said about show"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 78-minute documentary, which comes three years after\u00a0Netflix\u2019s Untold look at Johnny\u00a0Manziel<\/a>,\u00a0is directed by John Henion, who also directed the college football docuseries \u201cThe Ties That Bind: Inside Alabama Football\u201d<\/a> in 2025. Henion\u00a0remembered Vince Young\u2019s legendary game against USC when he led Texas to the 2005 national championship<\/a>, but admits to not really keeping tabs on the quarterback\u2019s NFL career aside from some headlines. When Campfire Studios asked about his interest in the project, he visited Young in Houston to learn more about him and came away feeling there was a compelling story that went beyond that one night in the Rose Bowl and some ups and downs as a pro.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust sitting down with him and learning more about him as a person,\u201d\u00a0Henion told the Houston Chronicle. \u201cHe was sort of this physical specimen on the field, but he also had this grit and determination to go along with these physical assets that made him kind of a wrecking ball when he was at Madison High School, then he leveled up in college and even in the pros. Then, there\u2019s his personal narrative of growing up without a father and looking to foster the mentorship he wasn\u2019t getting at home and having to be the man of his house at a young age. I started to think about how if you don\u2019t have that type of guidance and you don\u2019t learn from somewhere, sometimes you don\u2019t really learn how to process and negotiate conflict as best you could.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young\u2019s football career was marked by conflict. Even at Texas where he was immortalized by having his No. 10 retired<\/a> by the football program, there was conflict before he emerged as a superstar, including the much-written-about practice tantrum<\/a> when he drove back to Houston and was ready to transfer before his mentor Steve McNair got him on the phone and put him back on track.<\/p>\n

In the NFL, there were more battles as he continuously butted heads with Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher, which led to national talk show fodder just as ESPN\u2019s debate shows began to get a foothold on sports culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially with so much scrutiny nationally, it\u2019s tough to be able to negotiate conflict well and if you don\u2019t have a good foundation for that, it\u2019s get even tougher,\u201d Henion said. \u201cThat sort of intersection between his greatness and acumen as a player and his personal development, which Vince talks about in the film, that he realized he didn\u2019t have the tools to negotiate this conflict, I thought that was a really compelling human narrative that helped this film become more than just a retrospective sports doc.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from Young, Henion also got sitdowns with former Texas coach Mack Brown, some of Young\u2019s former teammates and opponents like Bo\u00a0Scaife, Lendale White and Matt Leinart, as well as people even closer to Young like his wife and high school sweetheart Candice, his mom, sister and even his\u00a0financial advisor.<\/p>\n

The biggest get of all though may be Fisher who got into public back-and-forths with Young when the two tried to co-exist in Tennessee. More than a decade later, the coach agreed to\u00a0sit down \u2014 \u201cHe showed weakness,\u201d Fisher says bluntly in a preview of the doc \u2014 to give his point of view of everything that went wrong in those Tennessee Titans days.<\/p>\n

\u201cScheduling Fisher was a big deal, it\u2019s obviously an important part of the story, having his voice is important when it comes to fundamental objectivity,\u201d Henion said. \u201cThe credit I have to give him is he\u2019s willing to be reflective and think back on his career. Knowing that he had this relationship with Vince, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s afraid to speak to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 78-minute documentary, which comes three years after\u00a0Netflix\u2019s Untold look at Johnny\u00a0Manziel,\u00a0is directed by John Henion, who also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-413525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}