ERIC BERRY WOULD PLAY FOR POTATO CHIPS AND GLORY

Not to mention he went into school with plans for pre-med, which leaves the potential that throughout his pro career he’ll actually be able to self-generate his own patient base. Orthopedic surgery highly suggested.

Eric Berry is a bright beacon of light in a darkness of suck that is UT…..He is, by many standards, a starting NFL CB playing, or toying around, at the college level.
And by toying I mean laying the wood…..at 100dB levels….after seeing some of those hits, my ears start ringing and I get pinched nerves in my neck…….Trust me, I been on both sides of those type hits, they dont hurt as much when your the one delivering them……not so much fun to get them and you wake up 3 mins later, and you think its only been 3 secs, and you dont know where you are, who you are, where you live, or why you are wearing this uniform….kinda like being at the WLOCP

MPP @ 2 – or when you wake up after a pre-game tailgating bender and wind up as the kicker for Texas Tech.

Berry was the one thing that impressed me about Tennessee’s team Saturday night. I had heard people talk about him all season, but hadn’t gotten to see him play. He’ is the real deal.

Having said that, I’m glad Bama was able to throw away from him most of the night. He is a scary MOFO.

Best DB in the SEC since Champ Bailey was shutting it down. He might be better.

He hits harder than Champ did. My ears are still ringing from the helmet to helmet he laid on Knowshon in garbage time a couple of weeks ago.

What a great kid. Heard a radio interview with him last week and came away very impressed. You could do much worse than have Eric Berry’s future ahead of you.

But that video only shows one (albeit his most impressive) hit – there were several YouTube worthy hits that he dispensed in that game.

The game reminded me of the first few minutes of No Country for Old Men, where Anton Chigurh slowly strangles the life out of the deputy sheriff with the handcuffs while staring impassively at the ceiling with black, cold, lifeless eyes.

so fast and yet so powerful…unreal.

while heaping all of this praise on this man amongst boys, let us not forget he is only a sophmore

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I’m guessing Knowshon’s ears are probably still ringing, as well. It’ll die down just before Major Wright lights him up again this weekend.

I had to suffer through this the week before. Amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5UwgsTIBU8

Eric Berry = Something Smells Good in Stinkville.

Fulmer: Shut up! and bring me the cats ass!

What an amazing hit. I don’t know how the receiver got up after that one.

Surprising that there hasn’t been much heisman talk. He truly is one of the best football players in the country . If he’s not at least a candidate, it’s a huge oversight. I’d say he’s better as a sophomore than Desmond Howard ever was as a senior.

Major Wright = another impediment for for Knowshon to hurdle on his way to the end zone.

He got up because he wasn’t hit as hard as it looks like he was. His momentum caused him to spin like that… still a pretty play though

Man that is a pretty hit.

1. Patrick

I’m glad that you mentioned that. I hate that the youtube clip didn’t show Maze popping right back up. I was proud of #4 (The pride of Tarrant, AL) for how he took that hit.

Addendum for UT fans: my comments are not meant in anyway to take away from how badass Berry is.

He nearly killed the Wisky QB on this hit…the man is a shark with a taste for human blood that only comes out via the ears:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvro9N3LKfI

#5, depends on the skill set you seek…Champ was great shut down, as was Lito Sheppard, but neither hit nearly as hard as Berry or RfN.

Heisman? That only goes to defensive players at Michigan after ESPN hypes them for six weeks. Also, playing on a shitty team doesn’t help Berry any. I’d feel bad for him being wasted at UT if he wasn’t going to make more in his first two NFL seasons than I will in my life.

He’s every bit as much of a shut down DB as he is a hitter. He has 10 picks in 22 career games with a 39.5 yard return average. When Woodson won the Heisman, he had 8 picks on the season with a grand total of SEVEN return yards. Berry already has 5 this year. And yes, he’s a sophomore. At 13 i said Desmond Howard because it’s Monday and I’m an idiot. Obviously I meant Charles Woodson.

I’m not sure I have ever before witnessed the fabled “horizontal triple axel” as performed on a football field…

He sent him 540! That looked like something out of Street Fighter.

Charles Woodson, causing stabbing rage in UT fans since 1997.

Saying Woodson was over-hyped compared to Saint Peyton is like saying Mangino is obviously more dangerously overweight than Fridgen or Weiss, might be true, but the other guys is a heartbleedsplosion ready to happen in his own right.

Major Wright, sir, is no Eric Berry.

Well I do believe Manning was the better choice, but I may be a little tiny bit biased . That wasn’t my point. I was just saying compared to Woodson, arguably the best college DB in recent history, Berry still looks like a badass.

Meanwhile, 1000 miles southwest of Knoxville:

After feeling the shockwave from Eric Berry’s hit rattle the windows in his Austin office, Coach Will Muschamp added Berry’s name to the exclusive list to receive a patended “Boom Motherfucker” Christmas card. He then looked down the list to review it and realized #14 was already on it multiple times.

Can you really identify any NCAA football player in the country with a greater mastery of his position this year? Berry plays mistake-free football, lays vicious hits, sucks in pics like a vacuum followed by returns which are absolute works of art, and is just plain fun to watch.

#28: Colt McCoy, actually….in terms of position mastery.

That said, Berry is the best player in the country. Burn his orange and he’d be a Heisman Top 3.

I grant you a hearty “Tru Dat”

Got to give him kudo’s on that hit and several more, his big mistake was signing with Tennessee, He could have been playing for championships had he went to Bama, Georgia, or Florida. I know his dad played there but you got to use your head.

EB > Colt McCoy, a rich man’s Ty Detmer

Yeah I have to disagree with the McCoy comparison.

31, he routinely uses his head. As a battering ram.

Comparing interception stats can be misleading. As a for instance, since I live in Denver, Champ Bailey has but one interception this year. I was watching the fourth or fifth game and the announcer mentioned that opposing teams had only thrown to his receiver something like five or six times, all season. Hard to ague that Champ is not one of if not the best at his trade in the league. Also, typically a CB gets interceptions while moving with the WR, i.e. away from the LOS, while the safety gets many of theirs jumping routes heading towards the LOS. Could go a long way to explain the difference in return yardage.

EB is no doubt a manchild, but don’t discount others simply based on stats.

Eric is great. If he played for a winning team, he would be considered for the HT.

I witnessed Charles Woodson (from Fremont Ohio, one that got away) wreak havoc on tOSU and the Big Ten. He is the one player that I believe cost us more than any other. He would have won 3 MNC’s at tOSU in 1995, ‘96 & ’97, but instead visited the dark side and made John Cooper pay the consequences. CW also returned punts, KO’s and played offense. He was the best player I have ever seen play for Michigan, maybe the best in the last 25 years. Vols fans need to remember this, Peyton never beat his main rival, Florida. Charles Woodson never lost to his.

Fuck, that hurt to write.

Ah Crabapple Buck, thou art indicted by the prefatory remark, “I witnessed Charles Woodson…wreak havoc on tOSU and the Big Ten.” The late 90’s Big Ten didn’t exactly resemble a 2008 Big XII or 1984 WAC.

Passing Stats from 1997 in the Big 10…Yes, it was as bad as you think.

The leader is pass efficiency was Joe Germaine? WTF?
Yards? Bill Dicken’s 2800? WTF?
TD’s? Bill Dicken’s 19? WTF?

Only four QBs passed for 2000 yards, whereas 6 teams had a 1000 yard rusher. Truth is, Woodson got hyped into the Heisman taking candy from babies posing as QB’s.

QED

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/stats/1997/BIG10confstats.html

DS -

The Big Ten in the 1990’s was tough. The SEC and Big 12 were great too. You know there is some good football elsewhere when you care to observe. But you can stay in your little fantasy world and ignore the greatness of the game as a whole. Along with the Buckeyes, I am a CFB fan and have no problem giving others their due.

Crabapple Buck,

When your team gets the shit kicked out of them every time they play a decent OOC team, I guess you have to “give others their due.”

Regardless, your response failed to address the point being made—i.e., that Charles Woodson played against a bunch of teams who were inept at throwing the football. That’s a seemingly undeniable reality.

The only beacon of hope in shit storm that is UT right now… keep the highlights coming EB… you are the man!!!

Please refer to him in all further communication as Eric “Jesus Football Christ” Berry.

I hate clips that just show the same play over and over. And Peyton wuz robbed.

1. looks like an unluck number at Bama… Wasn’t that Prothro’s Number too?

Re: 37. Yes, I have enjoyed EB’s play in the 2008 Big12 as well as his early work in the 1984 WAC. Great point. Maybe, just maybe, if UT was somewhat relevant, he might get a nod in some obscure EPSN insiders article. Maybe.

We have two players sporting #4 this year. Marquis Maze wears it, as well as Mark Barron, a true freshman manchild.

I’ll give Berry his props for being a great player, but the helmet to helmet hit on the Whisky QB is Fulmer cheapshot bullshit.

It sucks to be a badass on a bad team.