A WORD OF KINDNESS FOR THE ENEMY

Absolutely love that hit he put on Moreno. In fact, I love it ALMOST as much as when Spikes pancaked Moreno. Dude’s an assassin, no doubt about it.

Yeah, hard not to like an old-school baller like Berry…even if he is a Vol. You have to picture him at practice looking at the ground and shaking his head everytime the Freak-Show coaching staff gives him instruction…..

I don’t know much about Eric Berry other than everyone says he’s great. I guess he’s just been overshadowed by the Win/Loss record of the Vols the past few years.

I got to admit, and it pains me to do so; he’s a player. He hits like a damn sledgehammer and is great to watch. Curran is good, but Berry looks like a more complete player not to mention being a more mean sob.

I’m not a Vol fan, but I enjoy watching this guy play. I also enjoyed watching him get torched deep twice in the debacle at the Swamp in 2007 as a freshman, more so because I knew it was almost certainly not going to happen again. And against the Gators it didn’t, as he was seemingly the only Vol playing with any heart at the beginning of the second half during Florida’s win at Neyland last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMI4qj0pj3E

 one of the the coolest plays I saw last year.

Lord,

We pray that no one be injured today. But if someone must be injured today, let it be that big hitting free safety looking to hurt someone.

Amen

Painful though this is: Berry’s the best secondary player in college football since my namesake.

Berry is the only player on any other team that I’d gladly trade our starter at that position for. Not because each of Florida’s starters is the best in the nation at their position… a couple might be, but lets not be foolish here… but because he is that damn good and that huge a difference maker that it would be so very, very worth it.

Morgan burnett > eric berry

Taylor Mays.

Shhhh, #10. If he does not, or did not, play in the SEC, then clearly he is not as good as someone like Reggie Nelson.

Now, if Mr. Mays was playing in Cola, Athens, or Tuscaloosa, he certainly would be in the same category as Berry, and O does a very good job of not being a SEC homer as I am talking about SEC fans mostly, and nobody would make the dumbass assertion that Reggie F’n Nelson, as good as he was, is in the same conversation as the second coming of Ronnie Lott, who also is a SC product.*

• - If I believed in Internet lingo, I would now type, “see what I did there.” However, I will just stick with the obvious point that hyperbole can be used by anyone quite easily.

V, B

Holly >>>>>>>>Erin Andrews. However, if Peyton Manning wanted to win the Heisman Trophy, he should have beaten Florida. Not even in his senior year per se, just at some point. You cant be full of fail against your rival and win the Heisman.

You forgot to mention that Rennie Curran swam all the way from Liberia just to tackle your ass. I though that was a contractual item as well?

I’d love to have Berry. That said, while a phenomenal hitter…his coverage? meh. DJ Hall owned him. Taylor Mays is, and has been, the best over the same time frame.

Absolutely, Berry for Heisman.

AND love for the Liberian Dream. Nice job O/S.

I called Peyton after the ceremony and laughed at him. Then I called Fulmer and laughted at him, too. Then I called back and farted into their answering machines.

It was all in good fun.

Glad to see the kind words. Appropriate, since Kiffin spent 10 minutes of his press conference yesterday blowing sunshine up Tebow’s ass…and confirming that he voted for him for 1st team all-SEC. Berry is the best defensive back I’ve ever seen, and the most complete football player in the country. His numbers, after two years, have already eclipsed Woodson’s. I just wish they’d use him to return punts, because he can do some amazing things with the ball in space.

So Orson…does this mean that, knowing what we know today, if you were on the Heisman committee, your vote would go to Berry and not Tebow?

Vol:

Berry is a safety, Woodson was a corner. Just by the nature of their positions, Berry will pile up more stats since he’s going to be around the ball more often…teams can’t throw away from him, and safeties will be in on more tackles than corners.

This is not a knock by any means on Berry; he is phenomenal. I’m just making the point that stats aren’t an accurate measure of the impact of two players at different positions.

Man, if I get this new job in tennessee, I’m wearing my Woodson jersey every weekend, thankfully, I’m 6’6" and can take a punch.

I agree to some extent goblue. However, a corner would have as many opportunities at picks, and Berry’s interception return yards are his most impressive stat. A corner can make plays on passes and get return yards as easily as a safety…if not more easily. Berry would have more chances at the highlight reel hits though.

Spikes drilled Moreno at the line where he didn’t have room to juke. Berry was in open space and absolutely destroyed him. By far the hardest and most impressive hit Knowshon took in his career. Berry is a goddamn monster.

Vol…no. Corners’ opportunities at INTs aren’t any greater than a safety’s, especially if the offense is — as was always in the case of Woodson — throwing away from the guy. I recall one of Woodson’s picks in his Heisman year coming as the qb tried to throw the ball out-of-bounds, for example. He just made things happen.

That said, Berry is an awesome player. Just no need to compare him to another awesome player who played different positions and excelled at all three phases of the game.