I don't know about you guys, but I'll be rooting for Broncos. If anything, I really, REALLY hate it when teams get gift wins through god-awful officiating. We saw at least 10 point swing due to piss-poor officiating. [If Mike Perreira is blasting your officiating for a blown call in the NATIONAL FUCKING MEDIA, you know you fucked it up to the high heavens.] Sewerhawks should KNOW they got a gift today - instead they go off to rant about this bullshit. [Yeah, that means YOU, Richard Sherman.] I would love to see these morons lose. P.S. Know that, I was more or less neutral - or slightly in favor of NFC teams, whoever that came to be.
I actually found the Sherman thing refreshing.... for once we had an honest post game interview that wasn't 60 sports cliché's in 30 seconds.
Definitely pulling for Broncos. Mainly because I like Manning and feel like there will be more weight to the Manning > Brady argument with another SB ring, especially if he curb stomped the Pats to get there in the first place. Secondly because I find the whole 12th man thing kind of lame and annoying. If they referenced it once or twice a game that's one thing but they say it 19871931 times a game, the team has "12" flags all over the stadium and they just harp on it over and over. It gets old. Fast. Finally there is Sherman who I already knew was a loud mouth arrogant showoff. Now, I'll give him credit where it is due: he's definitely among the best if not the best CB in the league. But still, man, show an ounce of humility or, better yet, say nothing and let your actions on the field speak for you. Plus he comes off as a bit insecure IMO having to constantly tell people he's the best and turning a post game interview about his TEAM going to the Super Bowl into a "pay attention to me, I'm so good" discussion instead of being about his TEAM and the fact that they are going to the Super Bowl.
I'm not going to badmouth Sherman on anything except for the Choke thing on the field, maybe...I'm sorry I like my football players to have attitude. I like them to have a mean streak, and I love them to be passionate. I love them to be mean, to talk shit on the field and to get in to the other teams face and heads...as long as they are players who can back it up, and Sherman does back it up on the field. Give me a Dick Butkus (the player not the commentator), give me Conrad Dobler, Give me Mark Gastienau, in short give me players that play with emotion, that play mean, and maybe even play a little dirty sometimes. I'm not talking the Suh type of mean or dirty where the physical damage is done after the play is over, but I want the other team to fear my team, physically, psychologically, and in every other way possible. Then again I prefer the football style of the 60's and 70's over the modern day game.
I really don't get the Sherman hate. Crabtree called him out in the media during the week. Do I like rants like his? No, I didn't like Bart Scott's eitheer, he may not have called out a single player but he called out a single unit "can't stop a nosebleed" and most Jets fans loved. Revis, albeit calmly in an interview calls TO, 87 and other receivers names like slackers and the Jets fans love it, but Sherman calls Crabtree "mediocre" and that is dissing him. He called him mediocre (average) he didn't say he sucks. The Niners are a trash talking group of Punks, go back and watch the Panthers game. It takes two to tango and Crabtree is just as guilty as Sherman in this mess, but his team lost so he doesn't get to say the last word. Sherman, right now and for the last few has been much better than Revis.
You are correct but so am I, it was in two other interviews he used the word mediocre to describe Crabtree. Still calling him "sorry" what a terrible insult, really? It is no worse than Revis calling someone a slacker or Scott's comments. I personally think the Revis and Scott comments are worse. Especially the Revis ones because they were thoughtful and not spoken in the heat of the moment.
49ers have had a lot of bad calls go their way this season. Harbaugh is constantly on the field during plays and never gets penalized for it. He's one of the biggest whiners on the field.
CB's and WR's do the diva thing because they live on the edge of a knife on the field. Most of the time their play means next to nothing to the successful outcome of the game however when they make a play it's a big play. Then they go off because it's one of the few times they can really celebrate a play they made. The big guys in the trenches matter on every play. The linebackers make most of the tackles. When something happens in the area of the field that is rarely attacked the players there over-compensate in their reactions. I've never understood Rex Ryan's love affair with CB's. It's true that having a great CB partially shuts down one side of the field but doing that doesn't win you much against a great offense anyway. You're going to win or lose that game in the trenches 90% of the time.
It's ironic that you would post this in a thread about the AFC and NFC champions this year.. both of which wouldn't be considered as being "built in the trenches".. You "trade Revis guys" had one argument last season, that you announced over and over.. the CB position isn't important...teams can't win that are built around CBs.. etc. Well Seattle kinda put that argument to shame this year, I'd say.
Seattle put the argument to shame by having a pair of CB's making less than a million dollars between them. If Sherman and the 6th rounder opposite him were making $20M between them the Seahawks maybe win 10 or 11 games and probably get bounced by the 49ers or earlier. Nobody has ever said that having good CB's is bad. The argument is whether or not paying good CB's instead of paying good players elsewhere is the best way to win games and I firmly believe the answer to that question is no. Champ Bailey is going to his first Super Bowl this season. Darrelle Revis is 0-7 in bringing the Super Bowl to his city. Nnamdi Asomugha never went to a Super Bowl. What do all of these great CB's have in common? They were all 1st round picks who took up a huge amount of cap space from the get-go.
I am very opposed to poor sportsmanship by winning teams and players at the end of games. I have been consistent on this matter through the years at this forum. I disliked the Patriots antics after the win in SD in 2006 and the Jets antics vs the Patriots in the '10 postseason. Bart Scott was dopey, but his antics were more benign than Sherman's of last night. Historically, I don't take issue with guys slighting opponents in offseason interviews. Just doesn't bother me. See Revis saying someone was a slacker (was that against Moss? If so, Revis was telling the truth), Umenyiora vs McCoy, Strahan talking smack about Runyan, etc. Never bothers me. I get bothered by poor sportsmanship by winning teams and players at the end of games.
This is kind of simplistic, no? Nnamdi played on an awful Raiders team for a decade with a string of awful QBs. Then went to a mediocre Eagles team. His money was why they never went to the Superbowl? Or maybe it was the makeup of the teams he was on? You think Revis' money was why we didn't go to the SB? 2007 we were awful, was that Revis' fault? Or was it Favre getting injured in 2008, or Sanchez impolding the next 3 years? Or why Tampa didn't go? Bailey started with some awful teams in Washington. Was his money at fault or was it the fact that they had Banks and Ramsey at QB? He had some early success in Denver but he also had Plummer at QB, was his money at fault? The string of bad years and the Tebow year, was that his fault? Maybe he's going to the SB now because he has Peyton Manning at QB? I get that you can make the argument that "but for Player X's salary" they would have had more money to spend elsewhere, but to pick out these 3 CBs and say their money was a root cause of them not going to the SB is s bit too simplistic IMHO. Hell, one of the reasons we went as far as we did in 2009 and 2010 is BECAUSE of Revis, not in spite of him. _
I hate it. Also the in-game taunting--the Golden Tate taunt a few weeks back when he slowed down and directly taunted the defender as he was walking into the endzone was so classless. _
Richard Sherman is sorry he turned into Macho Man Randy Savage for a minute there. http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/6660/richard-sherman Seahawks LCB Richard Sherman has apologized for his comments following Sunday's NFC Championship Game victory. "I apologize for attacking an individual and taking the attention away from the fantastic game by my teammates," Sherman told ESPN's Ed Werder. "That was not my intent." Notice, Sherman didn't take back anything he said about Michael Crabtree. Although Sherman's on-field confrontation of Crabtree was a bit much, his post-game tirade was the kind of unscripted moment that's been sorely lacking in the Belichick-era NFL. Expect to see the brutally-honest Sherman all over your television set between now and Super Bowl XLVIII. Jan 20 - 5:35 PM Source: Ed Werder on Twitter
