Richard Sherman on Dez Bryant: "Incredible Talent"...Vid Post #37

[Sportsbabe]

Does he beat children? Beat women? Do drugs? What exactly does he do to make you despise him so much? Act with emotion?

Thank you. It amazes me what it takes for some people to "despise" another person.

 

[Plumfool]

You are probably too young to remember, but there was a time when athletes prided themselves on being humble (I know, sounds like double talk, but it was true) and being about the team. Brash is actually something relatively new in American athletics. Kind of started with the Joe Namath era stuff (there have always been exceptions, like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, etc... but I'm talking what most characterizes an approach to athletics in any given era). So confidence is not the same as being brash. Confidence is not telling everyone how great you are. The most confident people in the world don't have to tell you, they just go do it and let you tell everyone afterward.

No, I think Ali was an exception (I loved Ali as a boxer, btw, was my favorite at the time). I'm talking about what most characterizes an approach to athletics in any given era (I know you read it because you included it in your post). If you take the brashness, the talk, the exhibitions on the field (including after any good play and sometimes after average plays) and compare it with past eras, I think you will have to agree I'm right to say that things have definitely shifted.

Btw, Ali also kind of makes my point, because when was Ali doing his thing in the largest way? Late 60's throughout the 70's? When did Namath do his thing? Same time period.

That's society, not athletics in general. More exposure means more "look at me"

 

[Sportsbabe]

I'm not surprised by this. Sherman is a great player and he reconizes the talent of other great players. I am a big fan of Sherman but I'm hoping Dez puts it on him and the entire Seattle secondary this week.

I think I love you again

 

[rcaldw]

Hell, there was a certain former Cowboy head coach who rarely ever ate humble pie...nope, he liked the 3 inch headlines...and Seifert found out that "they" were totally brass all the frigging way!

lol, somehow I think the point has been lost , but that's ok, carry on.

 

[Sportsbabe]

This is true.

I mentioned in a tread earlier that I expected both guys would show respect and that's what we are seeing

Because that's the type of people they are. If some of us would look pass our own biases maybe we could see this.

 

[EST_1986]

Thank you. It amazes me what it takes for some people to "despise" another person.

He acts with real emotion and its not coached or masked so its "calculated".

He's just not politically correct and in today's world people have to be or they are just not accepted by the masses.

 

[Frozen700]

Richard Sherman is a good guy. He is smarter than people realize and is a fantastic player.

The fact that Sherman respects Dez, speaks volumes. He will tell you when there is a sorry WR, and usually he is spot on.

Garcon(Who even Haden got into it with)
Roddy White(Hasn't been a factor)
Crabtree(What happened to this guy?)

 

[Wayne02]

He didn't destroy Skip Bayless. He kept saying abstract garbage like "I'm beating you at life" and refused to move on with an actual interview. In my eyes, he killed his own reputation with that nonsense, not Skip's. All he wanted was an argument, and when Skip said "ok fine, you win" he just kept rambling on and on. It was one of the dumbest, least mature things I've ever seen in a sports interview.

That, in a nutshell, was the epitome of why I'm not a Sherman fan.

Please, he didn't fall for Skip Bayless's antics and went right at him, I loved every minute of it. Skip Bayless deserved to get trashed far worse than what Sherman gave him, and I wish more athletes would rip that idiot.

 

[rcaldw]

That's society, not athletics in general. More exposure means more "look at me"

Its both. And athletics is in many ways a mirror of the culture at large. Sometimes what happens in the sports we love helps to shape the culture, sometimes it reflects the culture. My point was, and still is, that there was a time when Richard Sherman's brashness would have been considered embarrassing. It is self-promotion, plain and simple. So, my only thought is, lets just call it what it is. It isn't confidence, because you don't have to be brash to be confident. It is self-promotion. If you are fine with that, so be it.

 

[Frozen700]

Imagine an NFL full of Demarcus Ware's. Would suck wouldnt it?

Yes, yes it would.

Boring, and I love Ware.

 

[Wayne02]

Richard Sherman is a very intelligent man, but nothing about him strikes me as genuine. His on-screen personality comes off as excessively cultivated.

It got him a ring, and he got paid so it worked, I'm not mad at him at all.

 

[stilltheguru]

Dez is probably the most respected WR in the league, and I dont just mean by the praise he gets before games. Watch a Falcon or Bengal games, you rarely see Julio or Aj get blanketed to the same degree Dez gets, only healthy Calvin is close with the amount of detail opposing defenses give

I try to tell the AJ Green lovers this but his (graceful play) is too mesmerizing. Julio gets almost as much attention as Dez that's why I think he is Dez only competition for second best receiver.

 

[Sportsbabe]

Give what to him? Is he a great player? Yea.

Doesn't mean I have to appreciate how he acts off the field.

What has he done off the field that you don't appreciate?

 

[Tobal]

Who said Sherman wasn't smart, the guy did well at Stanford he's obviously a smart guy. I don't care for his antics, but I don't have to. I also think it's a persona he puts on. I seriously doubt it's his true behavior.

I love Dez and Irvin, but couldn't stand Sanders. I'll never forget Sanders dancing like a fool while his teammate was being carried off the field. I think Sherman is close to Sanders than Irvin or Dez,

 

[Wayne02]

What has he done off the field that you don't appreciate?

He's still upset about him ripping Skip Bayless to shreds on First Take.

 

[Wayne02]

Who said Sherman wasn't smart, the guy did well at Stanford he's obviously a smart guy. I don't care for his antics, but I don't have to. I also think it's a persona he puts on. I seriously doubt it's his true behavior.

I love Dez and Irvin, but couldn't stand Sanders. I'll never forget Sanders dancing like a fool while his teammate was being carried off the field. I think Sherman is close to Sanders than Irvin or Dez,

Irvin was a serial cheater, drug abuser, and womanizer but Sherman has a behavior problem? Okay.

 

[Future]

Please, he didn't fall for Skip Bayless's antics and went right at him, I loved every minute of it. Skip Bayless deserved to get trashed far worse than what Sherman gave him, and I wish more athletes would rip that idiot.

Yea, he went right at him. That's the point. He did exactly what Skip Bayless does, only made actual personal attacks. Why he gets lauded for that I will never understand.

What has he done off the field that you don't appreciate?

Like three-quarters of the stuff he's ever said...

He acts with real emotion and its not coached or masked so its "calculated".

He's just not politically correct and in today's world people have to be or they are just not accepted by the masses.

Why should we just blindly accept that it's "real" emotion? How can you watch something like the Skip interview and say that any of that is raw? It was clearly calculated and he clearly was going to do that regardless of what Skip said.

 

[Sportsbabe]

He's still upset about him ripping Skip Bayless to shreds on First Take.

Oh, I didn't see or hear about that. I'll have to Google it when I get home.

 

[rcaldw]

He acts with real emotion and its not coached or masked so its "calculated".

He's just not politically correct and in today's world people have to be or they are just not accepted by the masses.

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but this is crazy. Richard Sherman is NOT out of step with the culture right now. He is a poster boy for it. Non-PC would be something very different. But regardless of whether one likes him or not, I hope Romo and Dez torch him this Sunday.

 

[Wayne02]

Skip Bayless is a television troll and I'm glad Richard Sherman ripped him the way that he did. Any Cowboy fan who supports Skip Bayless obviously didn't read what Skip Bayless said about Troy Aikman.