Top Moments of the 2009 Season: Round One - Anders vs Peek
by Todd on Jan 29, 2010 7:00 AM CST
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PrintBack to the blowouts it seems. Upchurch's Hokie leveling TD easily beat Maze's deep catch in the same game with 75% of the vote yesterday, and I'm pretty sure today's match up is going to have similar results. Up for your consideration we have Eryk Anders's forced fumble late in the National Title Game vs Colin Peek's TD catch in the SEC Championship Game. Vote away.
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Anders Forces the Fumble |
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Colin Peek's SECCG TD |
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Damn.
Do you pick the nail in the coffin for the Longhorns? Or the nail in the coffin for the Gators?
I chose Peek’s TD because it was so well-designed and well-executed. Anders forcing the fumble was important, but it wasn’t an especially great play.
That said, I’m pretty sure I’ve misunderstood what the parameters of this tournament are all along.
THAT
plus, I just felt Peek needed some love because unfortunately a tight end in a Bama offense isn’t going to generate nearly enough plays to get much past the first round in a competition like this, and he was a great contributor this year.
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by RememberTheRoseBowl on Jan 29, 2010 7:57 AM CST up reply actions
The parameters of this tournament
are just what you liked the best. So I doubt you could have gotten that wrong!
by billycthulhu on Jan 29, 2010 11:19 AM CST up reply actions
hardest one yet.
this matchup should have been in the semi-finals.
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exactly
Love this tournament, but the bracket really sucks.
You all seem to miss the point...
….EVERY SINGLE PLAY was awesome in it’s own right. We’re not picking horrible plays or shitty moments so the “good” ones can advance easily.
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It's funny because we say it's a tough match-up every single day.
If a play/moment didn’t have significance (anything from the SEC title game or the BCS title game; also, Javy breaking the SEC record and Ingram winning the Heisman), it was a flat-out great play/moment in its own right.
If you doubled the number of plays, there would still be a ton of tough match-ups.
Man, this was difficult...
but I went with Anders. He’s from San Antonio (where I live) and something about a Texas boy taking it to the dadgum Longhorns really does it for me :)
I love this bracketology, it enables me to relive all of these awesome plays from this amazing season. I wish I could have them all together on one incredible dvd.
Plus it’s something to help fill in the time in the 218 days we have left ’till kickoff.
by Queen of the Universe on Jan 29, 2010 9:21 AM CST reply actions
Me too....
I was the “666” vote for Anders…..is that bad?
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no way!
that’s cool, you anti-christ, you. Maybe the devil made you do it?
by Queen of the Universe on Jan 29, 2010 9:43 PM CST up reply actions
I went with Peek....
Because I was sober enough to remember it at the time
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by Stuck in the Plains on Jan 29, 2010 9:31 AM CST reply actions
I had to go with Anders...
The real nail in the coffin for the Gators was Arenas’ INT. Anders hit/ fumble basically won us the NC.
Lane Kiffin took the meaning of "Volunteer" WAY too seriously....
I'm surprised
that Anders is running away with this one. I really feel like it should be a lot closer.
Anders hit was monstrous and it certainly was a big play, but the Colin Peek TD was a good throw considering Greg had to fake one way, come back and drop it down over the defenders. It was a beautifully drawn play, executed perfectly, with a difficult catch made easy by Peek.
i'm surprised ANYONE voted for peek's catch
i mean, didn’t you KNOW we just won our 13th National Championship when #32 caused the fumble and #41 recovered? that was one of the happiest moments of my LIFE, not just the 2009 season.
"You have to create 6 seconds of hell each play..."
Coach Nick Saban
So This Is The Number One Moment?
I don’t want to get into a chicken or the egg argument (if we don’t beat Florida we don’t get to play Texas), but it seems like to rank these purely because they happened last takes the fun out of it.
If it is the plays themselves however then we have an interesting question.
the way i see it
the "which play made you happier’ parameter is looking at that play in that moment. that is my rule for me in attempting to get through the bracket. it’s pretty easy to look back and say ‘without that play we would not have accomplished so and so’ but todd’s original question was what made you happier – past tense. if it makes it all the way, #32’s forced fumble WILL likely win it all for me because i was pretty freaking happy at that moment.
"You have to create 6 seconds of hell each play..."
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This one was not fair....
But I went Holla McGee, er I mean Colin Peek. Considering all his FL ties, that play was extra sweet!
by BamaGirlinDallas on Jan 29, 2010 10:08 AM CST reply actions
Sorry Colin
That was a hell of a play and a great catch, but Anders sack and forced fumble was for me the moment I knew we had the game won.
Anders, no contest.
I love Peek and a tight end of his quality. A guy who blocks well, and then has the hands to burn the D when they think he “missed his block”.
But like all these highlights, it’s not about the play itself so much as it is the timing because they are all grade A highlights and career moments for the players. And the timing itself pretty much makes the anders play the winner. Reverse the timing and Peek wins.
I voted
for the Anders forced fumble. If he doesn’t cause that turnover we might have lost to Texas. Gilbert to Shipley was eating our secondary alive in that 4th quarter.
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by AlabamaTitans2009 on Jan 29, 2010 12:12 PM CST reply actions
I loved the TD by Peek.
But, by that point in the game I was starting to gain some confidence b/c we were moving the ball well.
Conversely, I wasn’t sure we could stop Texas and as for moving the ball….well, we all know how that was going. I had to go with the sack.
Best part of the Anders video
“They haven’t given up a sack tonight.”
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Also...
…notice the odd way that ball bounces. Super lucky it didn’t go out of bounds or get recovered by the Tejas player.
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looking at it again i have to wonder
who the hell was ulatoski supposed to block in that play?
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looking at YOUR wonder
made ME wonder, why the heck doesn’t anyone on the texas offense show any emotion at all after that play? they just start walking off the field after #41 recovers…and don’t even stop to help up their qb.
"You have to create 6 seconds of hell each play..."
Coach Nick Saban
…why the heck doesn’t anyone on the texas offense show any emotion at all after that play?
Because they knew the improbable and impossible comeback was truly impossible at that point. There’s a certain point during a game when you know it’s over and all of the rah-rah and chest thumping and gnashing of teeth will accomplish zero. Texas had just hit that point.
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In a three-point game?
If you’re right, they give up awfully easy….
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 29, 2010 8:02 PM CST up reply actions
On the two or three yard-line...
…the deathblow was about to be delivered and they knew it.
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that's why i am surprised.
that is the moment they KNEW their impropable comeback was done-ski. no ripping off chin straps (like ‘SHIT), no grapping their head (like ’arrrrggggggggggg’). all i know is that I got my shaker up,
they’re playin our game, I knew we were gonna be ok, Yeah, It was a win for the U of A
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Coach Nick Saban
its called...
making their ass quit…
Lane Kiffin took the meaning of "Volunteer" WAY too seriously....
is that
Gilbert’s blue mouth guard that finally hits the ground about the time of the fumble recovery? that thing was andersborne for quite a while!
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Coach Nick Saban
Look at Upshaw...
…he has his eyes on the ball the WHOLE time. Just like his TD return at Kentucky, he was following the play even though he wasn’t technically in on it. It makes me inappropriately excited about his future.
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Seriously
…go to the:40 mark and as soon as the ball is out of Gilbert’s hand his head is swiveling to track it. It’s scary.
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and the discipline to fall on the damn ball
even though the endzone was right in front of him
"Yeah, it's Tennessee, that's the way it is sometimes." - Corey Zickefoose, Pulitzer Prize winner and robbery victim
"This is not the end. This is the beginning." - The Great and Powerful Saban
by Thomas Walker Esq on Jan 29, 2010 4:00 PM CST up reply actions
i think you are right
it’s clear kirby smart recognized that the dependence on shipley that had hauled the longhorns back in the game had become their achilles heel and called this play accordingly.
watch gilbert when he takes the snap and see how he just stares at shipley on his right (no. 8) and gets completely shellacked from the back. it’s even worse when you look on the side anders came from and realize buckner (no. 4) is wide open there in the flat ready to take the quick dump off.
it could be argued that if mccoy was in the game he would have recognized something was up and either changed the play or called a time out when anders lined up unopposed.
but, dear lord, to be completely oblivious of the danger he was in is inexcusable. the texas offensive coaches did their young quarterback no favors on this play. not only was this a spectacular effort by the players on the field it was a great performance by our coaching staff.
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also...
we’ll see the correct way for a quarterback to handle this situation later in the tourney…
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should I cancel my prescription....
for restasis….?
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I’m not so sure the OT was confused on who to block and i blame this play on the QB.
Typically, when expecting an all out blitz you’d block from the inside out. Forcing the guy furthest from the QB to make a play. On this play, we are showing a possible 6 man rush with Ro and Barron coming up the gut. This would put both guards and the center at a definite disadvantage. I would think an experienced oline would see this and expect the QB to adjust the play, either by checking down to the flat or by changing the play all together. Just look at the LT’s head. He’s starring right down the line, paying no attention to Anders.
Looking at the pre snap set up, im thinking the o line was expecting a quick pass by the QB. This is why the OT crashed down on Lo. Anders has the farthest way to run, so by letting him go it would give the QB more time. Actually if you look at the play, Gilbert has 2 quick options and both were in the flat. Neither option would have yielded much yardage, but they probably would have not been as disastrous. And again, Gilbert looks at the guys in the flat but chooses to wait and see if Shipley gets open…bad choice by the freshman…
So IMO, this was not the O-lines fault.
Lane Kiffin took the meaning of "Volunteer" WAY too seriously....
Well done, sir....
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 30, 2010 1:37 PM CST up reply actions
I missed...
…Peek’s TD whilst in Atlanta, so every time I see it and appreciate its beauty (best offensive play of the season?), I still think, “Damn! I can’t believe I missed that play….”
On the other hand, I jumped through the roof when Anders sacked the Texas QB, so it was a really a no-brainer for me….
It is awesome getting to relive each of these moments.
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by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 29, 2010 2:38 PM CST reply actions
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