OMG: SI just found the "blueprint" for beating Sherman

We're doomed...

Kinda funny that the "blueprint" resulted in a total of 2 catches - one where Sherman slipped. Pretty weak analysis but let's hope the Donkies follow it. Love to see Sherm pick six against Manning.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/ne ... wl-xlviii/

If Manning targets Sherman 8-10 times and gets 2 catches and 1 TD from it, I'd consider that a pretty damn good game

And if Manning tries one of his deep floaters thank you very much for the free INT

Please read this Denver Offense. Read it. Take it to heart. Do it.

Seriously, it shows he can be beat? No Sh(*&**&*!!!!! Everybody *can* be beaten. I'm sure if we dissected tape on Manning we'd see that he can be baited into bad decisions and poor games (*cough* Belichek *cough*). Sports writers are like customer service help at Christmas. They just pull people off the street to write crap.

If I'm not mistaken, Sherman's "burn percentage" from the Atlanta game was lower than the burn percentage the guy cited in the article for his overall play, right?

If someone falls playing man, they're gonna give up the play 100% of the time.

IcedHawk":346pk2ob said:

If someone falls playing man, they're gonna give up the play 100% of the time.

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Not true. If said play is thrown to Terrell Owens, there was also a solid 20% chance he would drop it.

Highlights the idiocy of media (over) coverage. If you look at his writing history, it's primarily baseball. Despite that, he's come up with the genious strategy of throwing at Sherman to beat him...and CNNSI makes it the lead article. Another example is that all week Prisco has been writing articles about how to beat Seattle based on his "film study" (in which he posts All-22 pics and amateurishly circles players and draws arrows to make himself look smart).

Sherman has a high burn rate because he's been thrown to the least.

And he's not perfect who is, most of the players he's been burned by are smaller, quick, ultra fast players that he might not necessarily have had a ton a film study on like the kid who burned him twice in the Vikings game.

Put renowned players like Thomas, Decker, and Welker on the field and give Sherman , 2 weeks to educate himself, its a different story.

What the writer also didn't mention was rookies Bruce Irvin and Gregg Scruggs were starting in place of Clemons and Jason Jones. Seahawks had no pass-rush. Mebane, Branch, and Bryant (who also was hurt) were also worn out because a lack of quality rotation which allowed our run game to break down.

We had ancient LeRoy Hill and Marcus Trufant (who was getting abused) on the field. Bobby Wagner and Lane was a mere rookie. Sherman, Wright, Malcolm Smith and Maxwell (had yet to transform) were in their first full years starting. Chanchellor (also hurt) in his 2nd.

Fast foward it to a year later the 2 players who produced 19.5 sacks a year ago (Clemons and Irvin) only produced 6.5 this year but the Seahawks still had +8 improvement in sacks due to adding Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril to the mix. Clemons is Clemons but he has better pass-rushers next to him.

Tony McDaniel is a more complete player than Alan Branch. He rates high as a run defender where Branch was bottom of the league last year.

Brandon Mebane is playing at an All-Pro level, he's twice the player Knigton is.

Clinton McDonald could be the best 3rd man DT in the NFL and is playing at an elite level than where he was a year ago.

Bryant is healthy and he's being asked to do different things under Quinn than he was with Bradley.

Sherman, Maxwell and Thurmond are rated as top 15 CB in coverage. Lane is good enough to start on half the teams in the NFL, and he's excellent at making open field tackles for his size.

Both Thomas and Chanchellor have elevated their games into complete and elite players at their positions.

Irvin/Smith at SAM are stronger and faster than Wright at SAM.

Wagner is one of the most complete LBers in the game, his range his off-the-charts. Luke Kucechly might be better but not by much.

Wright/Smith has proved to be a strategic revalation at WLB in place of the aging LeRoy Hill.

There is so much change on this Seahawks defense, the Atlanta blueprint is just weak analysis of a dumb writer using Sherman's name to get views like a leech.

Teams are 3-15 against the Hawks this year. Yeah, I'm sure teams have "figured them out"

Keep throwing at Sherman until he falls down. Great strategy! Hope the Broncos do this.

There's SOME truth to this article. If you're going to test Sherm, it's better to go at him early in the game because it might result in positive plays AND if he does pick off a pass, it's not going to be detrimental to the result.........as opposed to doing what Kaepernick did which is wait until the last play of the game to go at him. Not good.

But just saying throw at him early and often is dumb, of course the more you throw at somebody you might have results. That's like saying "if you hand off the ball to Lynch 30 times instead of 10 he's going to probably have more success."

Stopped buying that rag years ago.