Best Plays of 2010: Man-Sized Throw vs. Firing Long Again
by Joel Hollingsworth on Jun 23, 2011 8:01 AM EDT
in Tennessee Volunteer Football
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PrintIn the first real blow out of the first round, Man-Sized Throw toyed with Heh, Gator Bit, getting 80% of the vote. Firing Long Again also had an easy time of it, getting 61% of the vote against Traffic, What Traffic?
So which play should advance, Man-Sized Throw, which was essentially Tyler Bray's coming out party, or Firing Long Again, which was him continuing to show that the first wasn't a fluke? Both plays came in eventual losses and both involved buying some room with a nice pump fake followed up with a perfect pass to a receiver in stride in the end zone. One went to a senior receiver having a career day, and the other went to a fellow freshman learning on the job along with Bray.
Videos republished after the jump.
Man-Sized Throw:
Firing Long Again:
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These are pretty much a coin flip for me.
Heel for school, Vol for life!
Go Bolts! Out West, go Preds! Southern hockey solidarity!
by Incipient_Senescence on Jun 23, 2011 9:42 AM EDT reply actions
Yardage
Agreed. Very similar plays, in fact. I took the NC play because it was for more yardage, and for the freshman-freshman connection factor. Hopefully lots more like that to come.
Man-Sized-Throw
The pass to Rodgers was, ultimately, a bomb. A nice bomb where everything worked out, and it is close, but that UNC defensive back probably ‘should’ have made the play. The pass was perfect, mind you, but it’d not like Bray put it somewhere where only his guy could get it or Rodgers stole the ball away, was it?
Now, The USC throw. That was a pass a beauty. From the pump-fake to the route Simms had thrown safely to all year for gains of 2, to the way D-Moore stuck his route a bit to the right when he saw the hole in the coverage, to the pinhead-accurate throw with enough speed on it to keep the deep back from catching up to it. That wasn’t a Touchdown when the defender missed a play on the ball, it was a touchdown when it came out of Bray’s hands.
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That's (333333jorkland)^2 and $$$$$$$$immons to you, chump.
It was a perfectly executed fly route.
Hardly a ball just thrown up, willy nilly. And I completely disagree about the UNC defender. He defended Rogers almost perfectly, but that ball was thrown just out of his reach, how it should have been.
But if you want to talk about what a defender should have done, the USC safety bit too hard on the pump fake, and didn’t get back quick enough when obvious it was just that.
Both plays are great, but I think your description of both is a little one sided.
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