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Not a favorite play from 2022, nor even from this game, but IMO the most important play in '22 was :

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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,927 Founders Club
    I think great nominee for underrated play of the year. Still 4-5 plays against Oregon I think are the most-important. Beating Oregon was the difference between a good and great season.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,039 Founders Club
    Gladstone said:

    I think great nominee for underrated play of the year. Still 4-5 plays against Oregon I think are the most-important. Beating Oregon was the difference between a good and great season.

    I don't think we would have won the Oregon game without the heroics in the beav game. You could almost literally see our beta, loser mentality being stripped away in the 4Q.
    I almost posted the same thought.
  • fivehundredmileDAWG
    fivehundredmileDAWG Member Posts: 1,212

    If he doesn't make that catch they still kick a FG and are up with about 50 seconds left. Not sure it was that critical. I always thought McMillan's catch where he wrestled the ball away from the Oregon DB and then popped up and flexed and told them all to suck his dick was the alpha moment of the year for the team.

    Not so sure we are a lock to make that fg … it was windy as hell that night … I was close to field level.

    We would have had the opportunity to kick it … but a 38 yard we in the wind …
  • fivehundredmileDAWG
    fivehundredmileDAWG Member Posts: 1,212
    The other thing about that play was that it should have been reviewed and a fourth down and a half yard to go ..

    We were due for some luck so in the end it was a great moment …

    There were trees all over I - 90 for the drive home … it was nuts. Freeway signs folded in half. One near Benton City is still not fixed.
  • dannarc
    dannarc Member Posts: 2,781
    Bo Nix's ankle, rather easily
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,841 Swaye's Wigwam
    Great post. Plenty of solid arguments could be made but they mostly miss the point.

    One thing I love about the play was that it's the new Cam Davis in a nutshell. His 2022 was all about getting what was needed at all costs, including the cost of some possibly bigger plays if he kept his feet. Instead, if he needed a yard he made damn sure he was getting that yard. On this play, he might've been able to keep his feet but what he really needed was to just catch the ball, and he made damn sure of it. This is why he scored 13 or however many TDs and was the short yardage specialist most of the time.
  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,927 Founders Club
    Gladstone said:

    I think great nominee for underrated play of the year. Still 4-5 plays against Oregon I think are the most-important. Beating Oregon was the difference between a good and great season.

    I don't think we would have won the Oregon game without the heroics in the beav game. You could almost literally see our beta, loser mentality being stripped away in the 4Q.
    This is fair. This is a pretty good tipping point for the season as a whole. While there were some great heroics late in the Oregon game, the fact they came out strong and put themselves within striking distance early and still had a lot to play for really helped that.

    It's still hard for me not to pick Cook's tackle of Nix or the Penix to Taj Davis strike.