With only five contestants left, tonight’s Survivor was a real nail-biter.

On the one hand you’ve got Coach. He’s arrogant, fake, a drama king, and yet, a huge fan of the good ol’ boys club. The club in which J.T. holds a V.I.P. membership. With J.T. always holding all the cards, and Stephen previously willing to go along with whatever his country buddy suggested, all hope looked lost for our other contestant on the chopping board, Erinn.

Truth be told Erinn hasn’t looked like much of a contender from day one. Physically, she’s no star athlete. Mentally, she’s a follower. She sort of reminds me of last season’s Susan to be honest. The whole season Susie merely floated along practically forgotten about. Yet, when it came to the season finale, she came in as the winner’s biggest threat. Who knew? That’s how I feel about Erinn. She’s still here and moving on to live another day… who knew?

Thank God Coach is gone though. It supremely irritated me to see him so easily pull the wool over J.T. and Stephen’s eyes when he all of a sudden tried to avoid exile island by playing up his weaknesses. Then, to play the martyr on top of it, you’ve got to be kidding me! I’ll give him this, he knew how to play the game. He knew exactly how to suck up to J.T. and be the “brave warrior” role model. I just thank God that Stephen’s smarter than I once gave him credit for. Perhaps he caught on to the fact that J.T. just might throw him under the bus in order to save Coach for the final two in the end. And why not? Just as Jeff said during their final challenge, this is the challenge they’d be waiting for “young buck” against “old warrior.”

My vote for the season winner: Stephen. He earned some major brownie points in my book tonight.