When you’re on top, everyone will look for a chance to try to bring you down. Right now Seahawks CB Richard Sherman is in this boat. Sherman is at the height of his career and has the most critics of anyone.
The latest is coming from ex-Steelers WR Hines Ward. Ward is now an analyst for NBC and had some choice words for Sherman after the Packers game.
“Sherman is on the cover of Madden, and he spent tonight covering Jarrett Boykin,” Ward said, via Bleacher Report. “That’s not the matchup you want to see. How can you be best when you’re on a nobody? Sherman takes himself out of the game by not covering the best receiver. Sherman is top three, but he’s not in the class with the best.”
“Sherman is very good, but the Packers showed how to play him,” he said. “They put Boykin on that side of the field, and Sherman covered him. The best DBs cover the best wide receivers. Sherman covered Boykin. Who is Boykin? You think Darrelle Revis would cover Boykin?
“I don’t understand why more teams don’t attack Seattle the way Green Bay did. Why doesn’t San Francisco do that? Arizona?”
Maybe Ward watched a different game Thursday night than anyone else, because why on earth would another team choose the same game plan as the Packers did for the matchup against the Seahawks? Clearly that didn’t work out too well for the Packers.
[h/t Larry Brown Sports]