Best Plays of 2008: the second cut
by Joel Hollingsworth on May 29, 2009 8:00 AM EDT
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PrintSay goodbye to Britton Colquitt Nails a 71-yarder, as it was eliminated as one of the candidates for the Best Play of 2008.
So which one's next?
DO NOT VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE PLAY -- VOTE FOR THE ONE YOU WANT TO SEE ELIMINATED. The play with the most votes gets cut from the competition.
The remaining candidates:
- More Score for Moore
- Brent Vinson's Pick Six Poop Out
- By Guess Who . . . Eric Berry
- EBWACC (Eric Berry's Wake Always Contains Carnage)
- Eric Berry Flying Corkscrews Marquis Maze
- That's Beautiful
- Rout!
- Berry All the Way
- Eric Berry Clobbers Knowshon Moreno
- What a Play by Berry in the End Zone
- A Score for Moore
- Eric Berry's Third Interception of the Year
- There Goes Lennon Creer
- The Fourth of the Half
Joel: I'm going with There Goes Lennon Creer again for the reasons I stated yesterday plus this one: it was exceptionally well-blocked and it appears that Creer didn't hug an ugly in appreciation. Many of you made a very compelling case for Brent Vinson's Pick Six Poop Out, though, so I'm expecting this one to be close.
Will: I'm a team player today, also voting for There Goes Lennon Creer. It's a nice run, but in a game we were already well ahead in against the only opponent we were able to use the full power of the Clawfense against. In any other year, a play like this in a game like this probably isn't even remembered.
Hooper: Since I went with it yesterday, I'll stick with There Goes Lennon Creer. With family visiting over the weekend, I won't rehash the reasoning as I am basically stealing a moment online right now, but it's unchanged from yesterday. Looking forward, there are several I expect to fall fairly shortly, but this feels like the next one in line.
VOTE FOR THE PLAY YOU WANT TO SEE ELIMINATED.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on May 29, 2009 8:52 AM EDT reply actions
I decided to change my vote
You’re very persuasive, Joel. That “not hugging the big ugly” thing did me in.
Woo for words that rhyme!
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by Joel Hollingsworth on May 29, 2009 9:13 AM EDT up reply actions
The question is...
Since you chose the Top 8 plays, did you purposefully set up Creer to fail? If you don’t like the play, then why did you pick it? I want to see just how far this rabbit hole goes.
I think you should write down your top play and put in a safe box that only Hooper can open. Then, when the people have chosen the top play (after you have persuaded us every step of the way), we can open it up and see just how good of a puppet master you really are.
When I was a wee lad, my parents went to Mexico and brought home a marionette. Aside from the fact that the thing totally freaked me out at night with its painted, bulging and frozen face, it was only a matter of minutes before the thing was a tangled knot. All I could do with him after that was swing him around like a cat by the tail. Not that I would do that with a cat.
A wooden freak of a monster toy, on the other hand . . . .
Rocky Top Talk
by Joel Hollingsworth on May 29, 2009 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions
My vote here goes to Vinson again.
Runner up is Berry’s corkscrew.
Creer deserves to stay on, its the only run play on this list. And who cares if it was “well blocked”? Does that make it any less of a great play? That juke in the secondary is pretty great, caught them flat-footed. Its a 50 yd TD, it stays!
now with less meyton panning.
by Pride of the Southland on May 29, 2009 9:32 AM EDT reply actions
Heres my thinking:
Its a good hit, but compared to the rest of Berry’s body of work on this list, its the least spectacular. He set himself up great for the hit, but it wasn’t real clean, and it caught Maze surprised because he couldn’t see him when he made the turn. Thus, a non-clean hit and caught off balance – a corkscrew.
There are so many Berry highlights here, I think we can narrow it down a bit earlier on which ones should truly stay.
Also, the longer this stays from being The Eric Berry Show, the better. I think some of these non-Berry highlights need their day in the sun.
now with less meyton panning.
by Pride of the Southland on May 29, 2009 9:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Was 2008 anything else other than The Eric Berry Show?
Official MCM Hater!
Summer 2009 Troll Call: Bedazzlers(2), Ratbirds, Squeelers(2), Rosencopters, Cardinals
Hardly.
And im not advocating letting the non-berry plays to stay on because they are non-berry plays, but there are more deserving plays to be eliminated than Creer’s IMHO. After maybe 2 or 3 Berry-eliminations, I will be hard pressed to find any non-berry play to compete.
BTW, when does voting close on this baby?
now with less meyton panning.
by Pride of the Southland on May 29, 2009 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions
Voting stays open each day until 6:00 the next morning (or whenever I get out of bed and look at the results. The entire series should wrap up Thursday, 6/11/09.
Rocky Top Talk
by Joel Hollingsworth on May 29, 2009 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Im going to blame you Joel if Creer goes down.
Im going to have to start breaking voting fingers around here. :)
now with less meyton panning.
by Pride of the Southland on May 29, 2009 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions
You’ll have to break all of mine and all of Will’s. That’s twenty, if I’m counting correctly? Where’s hooper when you need him?
Rocky Top Talk
by Joel Hollingsworth on May 29, 2009 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions
14 votes = 140 fingers.
Assuming we all have our correct digits attached.
now with less meyton panning.
by Pride of the Southland on May 29, 2009 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions
And the Moreno hit > corkscrew
now with less meyton panning.
by Pride of the Southland on May 29, 2009 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions
I'd vote against the carnage or Moreno hits before I'd vote down the corkscrew.
Maze goes – what, two yards back and 6-7 yards sideways off that hit? That’s not even counting:
- it was an open-field tackle
- the 360-degree spin Maze took after getting hit while going flat on his back
That hit was nasty; I’d even say it was better than the Moreno hit. I’d rather drop the carnage one as the first of the Berry highlights (the carnage was mainly the entire game the blocking on the return anyway).
by Chris Pendley on May 29, 2009 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions
you guys are leading the respondents
you’re breaking a fundamental rule of market research, you’re leading the respondents. why not save your personal commentary on which play should be eliminated to be read after the respondents vote? i take everything seriously!!! strive for excellence!!!
Actually, I'd agree with this.
One thing Will was doing during the all-Vol basketball team thing was putting his vote in the comments. This wouldn’t be a bad idea to follow, although it seems like we have our next two accounted for.
by Chris Pendley on May 29, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I probably didn't make this clear enough
But we were going for an American Idol-style thing. Of course, hooper pointed out that none of is cool enough to be Randy Jackson and none of us are blunt enough to be Simon Cowell, which leaves us with three Paula Abduls. I’m pretty sure we have nothing in common with Kara whats-her-name, either.
So yeah, we’re aware that our commentary may sway some folks, but as we get closer to the top, I think we’ll all end up disagreeing more, which hopefully will make it more fun.
Oh, and I think you’re just . . . magical.
Rocky Top Talk
by Joel Hollingsworth on May 29, 2009 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Man, if you wanted blunt we should've talked first. :)
I mean, it doesn’t make a whole lot of difference right now (the voting was pretty clear as to who are the first three off), which …really seems more like Survivor than it does Idol, I think, but neither here nor there. But it may later.
Although now that you brought it up, I might vote for any the highlight containing Crompton just out of spite.
by Chris Pendley on May 29, 2009 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions
that's because i am magical
i ride around on a unicorn- but i was born in columbia tennessee so don’t mess with me
Vinson, again.
Seriously, didn’t even result in anything and the kid got tired. Whoopee. ::waves tiny flag::
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