<p>Funny how many people in this chain are disgusted with Sherman and as a result will not root for the Seahawks and in the same breath mention how classy and nice the QB seems to be.
Why do you pay more attention to the bad behavior then you do to the good? If you used your energy to reward good behavior rather than bad, perhaps the bad behavior would lose its power?
Negative publicity is as strong as positive publicity, sometimes stronger.</p>
<p>What about moving the uprights in so there is a smaller target?
I like the idea of adding the variable for strategy…make a touchdown get 7, go for 8 lose 2 if unsucessful, tho some coaches have a hard enough time with math with the straightforward system in place now. Would adding variables cause using a time out or someone’s head to explode?</p>
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<p>I can only speak for myself. I would root for the Broncos regardless because I’m that big of a Peyton Manning fan.</p>
<p>I was impressed with the Seahawks young quarterback. Maybe some day I’ll be rooting for him in a different Superbowl. :)</p>
<p>The other thing about Sherman. Yapping in an interview is one thing…what about your behavior away from the field. I understand the guy does some good things in the community. Contrast him to someone like Rothlisberger. He gives a good interview but is a (accused) rapist. I’ll take Sherman every time.</p>
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<p>As someone who used to work in secure communications, bypassing the NFL 15-second lockout in the helmets would be trivial and at least one team has been caught doing it. I don’t expect the NFL to make everything they find out public. As an ex-baseball player and coach, we stole hand signals all the time. It is not that difficult.</p>
<p>Again, I’m a Pats fan and have been since the Jim Plunkett days. The fact that they were caught and punished neither surprised me nor affected my feelings for the team but, for some, it does tarnish their legacy. As someone who lives in a zip code with a bunch of ex-pro athletes, and a friend of a retired Jets linebacker, I thought it might be informative to let you know that the players’ perspective (rumors that I have heard) and the official NFL line on the issue were far apart. I was wrong.</p>
<p>Back to our regularly scheduled program - Richard Sherman is a 25 year old son of a garbageman from Compton living the American Dream, playing full-tilt on the field and a gracious fan favorite off of it. He is a gifted athlete who jumped 11 ft standing broad jump. GO HAWKS!</p>
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<p>True, McEnroe left that behavior to Serena Williams. She rarely if ever recognizes the talent of opponents. When she wins, it is because she was great. When she loses, it is because she did poorly but not because the opponent was simply better that day. </p>
<p>Come to think about it, perhaps growing up in Compton has something to do with the superior attitude displayed by Sherman and Serena Williams. All in all, it makes it very hard to like or love them, and this despite the athletic prowesses. No amount of good work in the community will change that.</p>
<p>Fwiw, regarding Sherman, he made a very athletic play on the deflection, but one has to wonder if a better thrown ball by Kaepernick would not have exposed Sherman as he was beat by Crabtree on the play. The deflection is more the result of an underthrown ball than a great coverage play. </p>
<p>In a way, that was vintage Sherman during his days at the Farm. A couple of good plays alternating with a slew of penalties and poor coverage. Every ball thrown in his direction gave fans a scare as he almost always looked for the big individual play. His plays often led to undoing the strong work by the defensive line. </p>
<p>No matter how well he has played in the NFL, he was mostly a liability at DB in college, and a very poor wide receiver because of his lack of discipline and route running ability. </p>
<p>And, all of that created a lot of the feud between him and Harbaugh who stressed team work and discipline over individual showboating players.</p>
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A player’s perspective would be interesting, but there wasn’t anything in your last couple of posts that I remember that was explicitly stated to be such. Maybe I missed it.</p>
<p>No team has been punished for violating the headset communication rule. And all allegations of fixing - from signals dropping to crowd noise being pumped in - have not been proved. I guess nothing stops talk. When Indy was winning big, it was noise being pumped in. Or the Patriots dropped the other team’s headset connection - which in the NFL means you can’t use your headsets either. Or the same thing about other teams. It’s all garbage.</p>
<p>The real scandals in the NFL are:</p>
<p>a) Rampant violation of injury policies. You can read memoirs by players who say they were told by coaches that they needed to suck it up even though they were injured. The abuse is mostly of the marginal players and the defense is they go along with being abused because if they don’t the next guy will take the abuse.</p>
<p>b) A ton of arrests, many for violent crimes, many of those involving women. Lots been detailed about this. </p>
<p>This is why I view professional sports as I do: I appreciate the game but don’t care about the actors. Richard Sherman is a bleep head. So what? I remember a woman arrested outside then Partriots’ TE Ben Coates’ condo. Why? She wanted child support because he had children with at least 3 women other than his wife. Dave Megget had 5 children with like 5 women. Antonio Cromartie has like 12 with 8 women. These are not role models. These are not people to seek out for autographs. If someone wears a Ben Roethlisberger jersey into my house, they have a choice: take it off or leave because the guy has attacked women (and been enabled by the worshipping police). </p>
<p>As for the game itself, the advent and expansion of replay has opened a huge number of issues because the game is scrutinized more and more and more. It is no longer that “replay/challenge isn’t allowed for x call” but “why isn’t replay/challenge allowed?” If we fix those “issues” then we’ll find more. Like see that illegal block on that runback for the TD that won the game? Why can’t that be called? Pick plays are illegal so why not use replay to make sure they don’t happen. No matter how far we go, we can go farther. I’m not sure the game is “better” than it was before replay/challenge. It’s just somehow a little different.</p>
<p>As to changes, I’m not sure what I’d do. The PAT is a joke except for the rare occasion when Tony Romo fumbled the snap in a crucial moment. Do we get rid of that moment because the 99.9% are useless? I think so but then what do you do? Require 2 point conversions? But if that’s the case, you change the scoring ratios so what is now a 2 score game might be a 3 score game. Is that what we want? What if they made the PAT a longer kick? Beats me. </p>
<p>Do we want to reward long field goals more than short ones? Really? Aren’t you rewarding a team that couldn’t get closer to the goal? Don’t we want to encourage teams to try to move the ball closer instead of kicking from farther away? How do we get teams to move closer, to commit to offense and try to score without changing the balance? Give fewer points if a field goal is longer? Beats me.</p>
<p>One change requires another. Say we have all 2 point tries after TD’s. Maybe we push the kicking team farther back if they get 2 to give the other team a better chance to come back. Maybe not. Maybe we change the way PAT’s are attempted, moving the kicking spot closer to the line so it can get blocked more easily.</p>
<p>Richard Sherman graduated #2 in his high school class and graduated from Stanford with a 3.9 GPA in communications. Is the talk of every TV and radio program this week. Now…who are you calling stupid!!! He’s taken the art of self-promotion to a whole new level…</p>
<p>That said, I did choose to order a #3 jersey instead of a #25 one yesterday because I prefer a nice guy over an egotist. Go Seahawks!</p>
<p>Mcenroe actually let loose on everybody, from the court officials to flight attendants.
A quote from his father.
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<p>Sherman made the final big play of the game, he obviously backs up his opinion of himself.</p>
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<p>I can see the comparison to Ali.
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<p>I don’t believe he necessarily backed up being the “best” either. He took advantage of a bad pass, which is what he should be doing, so good on him. But that’s something just about any decent DB could have and should have done. </p>
<p>I just don’t trust anyone who has to tell me that they are the best at something. It should be so obvious as to go without saying. JMO.</p>
<p>“and Peyton kept saying ‘Omaha Omaha.’” </p>
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<p>Sports writers feel that Sherman is clearly the best CB in the league, and that the final tip was a very athletic play that showed why. People can dislike him saying so, but he IS very good.</p>
<p>He just should have posted on the CC bragging thread – that’s the classy way to do it. :-)</p>
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<p>Of course he is! </p>
<p>But if he is really THE BEST (as if there could not be many other equally talented players), why the need to shriek it to the world? If he is THE BEST, then it’s obvious to all, right?</p>
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<p>LOL, who does that?</p>
<p>Deion Sanders says the Seattle secondary might be the best of all time and Sherman the best of that bunch. I do not see Seattle play enough to offer an opinion but Deion knows secondary play. At least the part that does not involve tackling.</p>
<p>Its the " mile *high *" city against the Emerald city.
So does marijuana impede or augment performance?
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<p>[If</a> You Are a Richard Sherman Hater, This Video Will Change Your Mind](<a href=“http://nextimpulsesports.com/2014/01/20/richard-sherman-hater-video-will-change-mind/]If”>If You Are a Richard Sherman Hater, This Video Will Change Your Mind)</p>
<p>Alright Sherman haters watch this.</p>
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<p>Yeah, not “likely.” As in not even a possibility.</p>
<p>That’s how I felt about the Seattle vs. San Francisco game. Not a fan of either coach. </p>
<p>Hopefully the Superbowl will be just as exciting, and not a blowout as often happens. Those games are boring.</p>
<p>The #1 defense (yes, the “best”) against the #1 offense. It should be a great game and Fox TV is thrilled.</p>
<p>ETA: Thanks for the link, pickle. I didn’t like football until I started to pay attention to these kinds of details and his explanation of the plays is fascinating.</p>