Richard Sherman doesn’t believe Tom Brady is who everyone perceives the Patriots’ quarterback to be. Sherman and the Seahawks have only faced Brady once, and that was in a 2012 regular-season matchup. The stakes will be much higher this time around when both teams meet in the Super Bowl.
Super Bowl 2015: Richard Sherman says Tom Brady is not who you think he is
Richard Sherman doesn’t think the public knows who Tom Brady really is and doesn’t care if deflated footballs decided the AFC Championship.
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Sherman famously got into the face of Brady following the Seahawks’ 24-23 victory in 2012. That incident came after Brady told Sherman to come find him after the game when he thought New England would emerge victorious.
As for Brady, Sherman thinks the national perception of him isn’t an accurate depiction, via Pro Football Talk:
“I think people some time get a skewed view of Tom Brady,” Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman told reporters on Wednesday, “that he’s just a clean cut, does everything right, and never says a bad word to anyone, and we know him to be otherwise, but in that moment of him being himself, he said some things and we returned the favor. Unfortunately he apparently didn’t remember what he said, but I’m sure at those moments of yelling at the ref, I’m sure he was saying, ‘Good job, you’re doing a fantastic job, keep it up.’“As far as the Deflategate controversy, Sherman doesn’t believe it will impact the Super Bowl and doesn’t expect the NFL to hand out any potential discipline before the game, according to Comcast Sportsnet New England:
“It didn’t have much effect on the game, and if it did, if it’s against the rules, then it’s against the rules. But you’ll see that it’s not going to have any effect on this game. Nobody is going to get suspended, nothing is going to happen, they’re going to play this game, whatever they did ... The risk-reward was greater.”
”They were trying to suspend Marshawn for gold shoes. That really affects the game if you suspend Marshawn for gold shoes. But then you got balls being deflated, and that’s an issue.”
Sherman remains optimistic that his elbow injury, which affected him during Seattle’s NFC Championship win over Green Bay, won’t be an issue come game time. Sherman reaffirmed his postgame comments from Sunday and said that there is no way he’ll miss the Super Bowl.
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