Richard Sherman: authentic, unapolegetic

Nobody is better at explaining the intricacies of football, and no one is more capable of turning an interview into a smoking heap of awkward. Both of those realities were on display Wednesday.

Nobody is better at explaining the intricacies of NFL football to a lay audience than Richard Sherman.

Nobody is more willing to steer an interview straight into a ditch than Sherman, either.

It is the yin and the yang of his media presence, the grin and the growl, and Wednesday was an opportunity to see both sides.

On the one hand, there was Sherman making it very clear that he would not be answering questions from Mike Salk during an interview that aired on the radio station I used to work at. On the other, there was an interview Sherman did with Kevin Clark of TheRinger.com in which he pointed out Kyle Shanahan’s expertise by referencing a 2016 game between the Seahawks and the Falcons that you might remember because Sherman became observably upset on the sidelines. OK. Wait. I’m going to need to be more specific. That was first time Sherman became observably upset on the sidlines that season.