Richard Sherman had deja vu.
And never the nice type.
The previous NFL star now serves as an analyst for Amazon Prime’s “Thursday Night time Soccer” broadcast and didn't take kindly to how the tip of the Colts’ additional time win over the Broncos, and his ex-teammate Russell Wilson, unfolded.
Richard Sherman had deja vu after the sport.
Malcom Butler infamously intercepts Russell Wilson to win the 2015 Tremendous Bowl.
The Colts have a good time after their game-winning defensive cease.
Russell Wilson, proper, talks with Nathaniel Hackett.
“Flashbacks,” Sherman posted on Twitter instantly after the sport.
Trailing 12-9 in additional time, Wilson — who performed and received a Tremendous Bowl with Sherman whereas with the Seahawks — had marched the Broncos all the way in which right down to the Colts’ five-yard line. Going through a fourth-and-one, head coach Nathaniel Hackett and the Broncos opted to go the ball, and Wilson’s go promptly fell incomplete at hand Denver its third lack of the season. The play, and circumstance, drew shades of one other late-game, fourth-and-one miscue.
Wilson infamously threw an interception to Patriots cornerback Malcom Butler to seal New England’s 2015 Tremendous Bowl victory over the Seahawks. Equally, Wilson was dealing with a game-deciding fourth-and-one deep within the opponents’ territory. Within the aftermath of the choice, the Seahawks and Wilson had been closely scrutinized and ridiculed for selecting to go as an alternative of handing the ball off the celebrity working again Marshawn Lynch.
With Sherman helplessly watching alongside the sidelines in 2015, he notoriously demonstrated his displeasure on his face, an expression of hope turned to disgust that has since develop into a preferred meme.
Alongside together with his “flashbacks” tweet, Sherman posted a gif of that response.
And though the Broncos don’t have a working again of the identical caliber as Marshawn Lynch, Sherman shared an analogous sentiment as he did seven years in the past.
“On the ultimate play, you’ve bought to run the ball once more,” Sherman stated on Amazon’s postgame broadcast, on which he’s accompanied by former gamers Andrew Whitworth, Tony Gonzalez and Ryan Fitzpatrick and host Charissa Thompson. “I want I had Marshawn up right here. One yard, you want one yard. Run the ball. Run the ball! All he has to do is run the soccer. Essential criticism. You already know I’ve stated sufficient criticism of [Nathaniel Hackett], however run the dang ball. Like, be taught out of your errors.”
“I’m so confused, have you ever been on this state of affairs earlier than?” Whitworth playfully requested, seemingly referencing the Tremendous Bowl incident.
Hackett has suffered by a tough opening 5 video games answerable for the Broncos, most notably the crew’s opening-week loss to the Seahawks and his resolution to aim a 64-yard area aim moderately than attempt to convert a fourth-and-five. Every week later, followers had been sarcastically chanting out the play clock amid the crew’s play clock woes.
Regardless of the criticism of Hackett’s decison to go, the play ought to have labored. Broncos receiver KJ Hamler was broad open to Wilson’s proper, however Wilson by no means noticed him and as an alternative threw a go supposed for Courtland Sutton.
“I might have walked in,” Hamler advised reporters after the sport.
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