Richard Sherman
Don't expect Richard Sherman and Jim Harbaugh to mend fences anytime soon.
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Sherman, the San Francisco 49ers' star defensive back who played for Harbaugh at Stanford, still holds a grudge against his former head coach.
Richard Sherman: Pos: DB, Career: 134 G, 4 TD, 3xAll-Pro(1st), 5xProBowl, Seahawks/49ers 2011-2019, born CA 1988. Sherman is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Mississippi and went on to earn his Doctorate of Medicine from Tulane University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in dermatology at Tulane and Charity Hospital, serving as Chief Dermatology resident from 1991-1992.
“There is nothing to mend,” Sherman told the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday. “The bridge was burned down, torn down and built another bridge at another place. But the bridge in this particular relationship will never be rebuilt. I don’t think he is interested in it, and I’m not interested in it.”
Sherman, 31, is a five-time Pro Bowler who turned himself into one of the game's best defenders as part of the iconic 'Legion of Boom' in Seattle. Fat princess psp rom. He signed with San Francisco in 2018 after tearing an Achilles tendon, and he's a big reason why the 49ers are one win from returning to the Super Bowl for the first time since Harbaugh led them there in 2013.
Which is perhaps why the feud with Harbaugh resurfaced this week ahead of Sunday's rematch with the Green Bay Packers in the NFC championship.
It apparently stems from their time at Stanford, when Sherman says Harbaugh accused him of 'quitting on the team' after a season-ending injury in 2008, encouraged him to transfer and eventually moved his leading receiver to defensive back (a move that has aged pretty well).
According to the Mercury News, Harbaugh and his staff had trouble dealing with Sherman's 'colorful persona.' In 2007, Harbaugh reportedly suspended Sherman for yelling at teammates during a loss to Washington. And Ron Lynn, then-Stanford's co-defensive coordinator, told the Mercury News that Sherman had been acting like a 'diva' and a 'spoiled brat' one year during spring practice, 'demanding quarterbacks throw him the ball.'
To remain on the team, Sherman said he was given a contract that required him to take 20 credit hours in a quarter, pay back loans he'd received and move back to campus.
“Then I had two weeks of workouts at 5:30 in the morning,” Sherman said. “Mind you, I’m fresh off surgery, I’ve still got the brace on and I’m on crutches. At that point, if I don’t complete that I’m getting kicked off the team. It’s like no choice.”
Harbaugh, who left San Francisco for Michigan in 2014, hasn't said much about the beef. Rumors have swirled for years that Harbaugh bad-mouthed Sherman and Stanford teammate Doug Baldwin to NFL scouts ahead of the 2011 draft. (Baldwin went undrafted while Sherman fell to the fifth round, with both ending up with the Seahawks.) Sherman called him a 'bully' in 2012 after Harbaugh accused Seattle's secondary of being too physical. Harbaugh allegedly blew off a post-game handshake with Sherman following a 29-3 Seahawks victory in 2013. And Sherman also accused Harbaugh of honking his car horn at Seattle's bus after the Niners beat the Seahawks at home one year.
Sherman has been critical in recent months of media types who picked the 49ers to struggle after finishing 4-12 last season. He said last week he has been disrespected despite being one of the most productive defensive backs of the past decade.
“They always want to make an excuse for why I’m great,” he said.
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Super Bowl 54 probably didn’t go the way Richard Sherman envisioned it would. The 49ers cornerback didn’t make much of an impact, and after he gave up a 38-yard reception to Sammy Watkins,.The numbers did not look great for Sherman. According to Pro Football Focus, the veteran corner was targeted five times and gave up five completions for 72 yards. Both were season highs.
But those numbers are a bit misleading and the heat Sherman caught following the game just goes to show how high the standard is for one of the greatest cornerbacks in NFL history.Let’s take a look at all five of those targets. You can watch all of them here before we look at them individually.Let’s start with Watkins’ big catch, which was certainly a play that Sherman would like backIt appears the Chiefs were running a quick passing concept, but with Sherman in press coverage, Watkins converts his route to a fade. Sherman is really done in by the alignment.With Watkins aligning in a tight split, Sherman is like expecting an out-breaking route. The thinking behind that is the receiver is aligning further inside to give himself space to run back outside.
Watkins feints outside and gets Sherman to bite before working back inside and that provides him the step he needed to beat the 49ers star downfield.Here’s the second big play Sherman “gave up.” It comes on a scramble drill where he has to cover Watkins for about five seconds.No coach is expecting his corner to hold up in coverage that long. This play ultimately falls on the pass rush for not being able to contain Mahomes.The remaining three targets let to minimal gains. Tyreek Hill’s two catches on Sherman came on short routes vs. Soft zone coverage.Hill catches the ball in the area of the field that coaches literally refer to as the so dinging Sherman for the catches makes no sense. On the first play, Hill does make Sherman look silly with a nice juke, but that has nothing to do with his coverage.And here’s the final target, which is actually a really nice play by Sherman on Kelce, as he brought down the best tight end in the NFL for little yardage. Kelce is one of the best yard-after-catch players in the league, so that’s no small feat.Sherman was really only beat once in coverage. Every corner gets beat.
Stefon Gilmore gets beat. Jalen Ramsey gets beat. Darrelle Revis got beat.That didn’t stop Twitter from piling on Sherman. If the standard is THAT high for him, then maybe Sherman is right:.,.