The war of words continues between two of the best defensive backs in the NFL. Richard Sherman & Patrick Peterson have been going at it the past few months, especially since Sherman got his new fat contract extension. Peterson obviously believes he is better than Sherman and we all know Sherman thinks he is God’s gift to a football field. Personally I think Sherman is a product of the Seahawks system and not an actual great one on one cover man. Peterson has him beat there. Hit the jump to see what they said now.
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During an interview in Arizona yesterday, Peterson once again added fuel to the fire:
I don’t want to get in a debate as far as stats that he has and things like that. Obviously his job is definitely much easier than mine. But if you look at their scheme and at our scheme, he’s a Cover 3 corner. Period. A lot of guys say he’s a shutdown corner. But if you look at film and guys who understand the game, go back and look at film and see how his defense is. I believe that if you put him in our system, I don’t believe he’ll be able to last, honestly. Because I actually do much more than he is (doing).
The fans […] they see he’s got tons and tons of interceptions. And that’s all fine and dandy, but he’s only covering space. He’s not really covering a guy. So at the end of the day, he has great stats. He has great playmaking ability — not taking that away from him, because he is a good corner. But as far as being a shutdown corner, man-to-man guy, in my eyes, I don’t believe he’s that.
Sherman responded by tweeting a picture that was as usual based on stats. It is easy to make stats the focal point because that is what everyone sees. But numbers do lie sometimes and it doesn’t show that the way the Seattle coaches have the defense set up helps Sherman tremendously.
I doubt this back and forth bickering will die down anytime soon, especially since they are in the same division.
