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Several years ago, Richard Sherman was one of the NFL’s best cornerbacks, and he was arguably its most notorious trash-talker.
He was the cornerstone of the Seattle Seahawks’ “Legion of Boom” secondary, and that secondary helped them win Super Bowl XLVIII.
Seattle made it back to the Super Bowl the following year against the New England Patriots, but they made a questionable decision to pass the ball instead of run it through star running back Marshawn Lynch late in the fourth quarter while on the one-yard line.
The pass was intercepted, allowing the Patriots to resurrect their dynasty with their fourth world championship of the Tom Brady era.
Sherman said he was triggered watching Russell Wilson, the quarterback on his Seahawks teams, throw a game-clinching interception on Sunday against the Houston Texans because it reminds him of the one Wilson threw in that Super Bowl, per The Volume.
“I get triggered when I see him drop back to pass in a goal to go situation”
—@RSherman_25 still has PTSD from Super Bowl XLIX pic.twitter.com/C4ihITGe1K
— The Volume (@TheVolumeSports) December 5, 2023
After losing in that Super Bowl, that fearsome Seattle team went into slow decline, although Sherman was still a top-flight corner.
He ended up being named to the Pro Bowl five times and earning three All-Pro First-Team nods, and he created fear in the minds and hearts of many opposing QBs and wide receivers.
In the 2018 offseason, the Seahawks released Sherman, and he signed with, of all teams, the San Francisco 49ers, who were the Seahawks’ fiercest rivals earlier in the decade.
With the Niners, Sherman made it to another Super Bowl during the 2019 season, where the team blew a late lead and lost to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
Sherman retired after the 2021 season, and he is now one of Skip Bayless’ co-hosts on “Undisputed.”
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