The Richard Sherman Podcast - NFC & AFC Championships Reaction: 49ers-Eagles, Bengals-Chiefs, "awful" NFL playoff officiating

Published Jan 30, 2023, 5:42 AM

Richard Sherman reacts to the San Francisco 49ers losing to the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship, along with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship. Richard calls out the NFL's playoff officiating and blasts the refs for missed calls that decided who advanced to the Super Bowl. Richard also gives his take on the future for the 49ers' QB position – will San Francisco bring back Brock Purdy, or should they see if Tom Brady is interested in playing for the Niners? #volume #herd

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Let's let's start with that game and fill a beat down of the forty nine is of the very fragile forty niners. I don't even know if we what we call this game. I mean, talk to me Rich, Well, what we're gonna call it is the rest. You know we're gonna call the rest. This is the ref super Bowl. The rest got involved, way too involved in both games. In this first game, SF had eleven penalties, Philly only had four, uh and crucial penalties. It's they drive sustanding penalties. Uh. And the next game they had drive sustaining penalties. It just it just wasn't the way you want to playoff. Game called now the Eagles earned it. The Eagles earned the win. Obviously, it's hard to get a win in San Francisco if your third string quarterback who has been seven and oh goes down, and then your fourth string quarterback goes down, and then your third string quarterback you can't throw anymore, has to come back in. Then you're running back has to the ball. So it was just a set of firs seen circumstances. But Philly took advantage of it the way they have to. They won the they won the championship, and they made it to the Super Bowl. Well, you gotta, you gotta, you know, take your hat off to him. I think Philly's deserving, you know, participant in the Super Bowl. But I will say the true losers and today's viewing party were the fans. Rich. I mean, first series Rock Party goes out, you know, this game immediately changes, and what we thought the game would be between two Juggernauts turns in between a journeyman Josh Johnson. You know, I know he's new to the system whatnot, but I mean he's not going to give him too much of a fighting chance against the elite in this league. And unfortunately, play after play, drive after drive was just coming up empty. Rich. Yeah, I mean it's the game started with the first down that shouldn't have been on the fourth and three incomplete past that was obviously incomplete at the time. You could see it by the reaction of the receiver when he got up. Davante Smith got up panicking and like, hey, hurry up, let's just hurry up. We're gonna play. And and clearly, you know, in any other situation you at least call it time out to say, hey, let's take a look at this. You know, it's for some reason we're acting like time outs are invaluable, you know, they're oh my god, we gotta save him for what they use the time out there. It's a really important part of the game. Let's see what happened. I see why he's panicking. Let's take another look at that. But they didn't and they got You have a touchdown on that drive when it would have been a turnover on downs. That's the seven point swing right there. Then you have the really curious play of of blocking Hassan Reddick with the tight end on the first deep developing route you run. He's second in the league in sex behind Nicholas john Bosa, and I don't think you would block Nicholas john Bosa would have tied end, and they, for some reason blocked him with a tight end, and of course he beats the tight end and gets a sack that not only forces a fumble but put your quarterback out for the game. So that was one of those It was bad. It was bad, and then it got worse, and you're just like scratch your head, like why why why why block him like that? Why why not slide to him, chipping him, do something? You know, this is deep developing, Like I would think there's there's more to it. But those were two huge places Hassign Reddick played an unbelievable game, had two sacks in the game, two huge plays. But that's why I didn't feel like a crazy win for Philly. I mean, Jalen Hursts had fifteen twenty one yards, We're nity eleven times for thirty nine yards. Miles Standers had eleven rushes for forty two yards and two touchdowns. 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Make every moment More with Sandal, official sports book partner of the NFL States first tend sponsor pro. Fourteen days after receive restriction applies, he turns a sports dot Com can we well, Rich to your point? You know, obviously the emotions of in the game, right, I mean, pretty goes down Philly obviously, you know, looking at it like you said, that was not a catched up by DeVante Smith. They were the beneficiaries of a touchdown on that drive and then their second scoring drive. It was penalty after penalty after penalty on the San Francisco defense. That you know, some of them justifiably so, some of them a little bit of a head scratch, Rich, But I want to bring you you on the sideline, if you're still playing, how does injuries to key positions like the quarterback position affect your mindset? You know, with the rest of the game being it on the first possession and of the game, are you guys still locked in mentally or is there a little bit of a feat creeping up? No, I mean guys are still locked in. I mean, they've done it all year long. You know, they've overcome all year long, and they lost their first string quarterback, second string and quarterback now lost their third string, and they've responded well every single time. So I think guys still played hard, you know, but a lot a lot of those TICKI texts. The illegal contact penalty on char Various Award was very ticky tech. There was a pass interference on Jimmy Ward that you really don't call in the playoffs. He jammed a j Brown up. He couldn't get off the jam, so he decided to spend and then spans and then Jimmy almost intercepts the past. It's it's it's just it was just one of those games that looked really controversial the entire game where you're like, hey, like, who's who is this? The playoffs? That are we in the preseason? Like you don't you don't call these calls? But yeah, I wasn't a fan of that. You know, obviously, you know a team with the quarterback is gonna get to the super Bowl, and that in that situation just didn't feel like a championship should Sure, well, Richard, what there's a lot of question where he go in the next season for the Niners. You know that this team has got to answer a big one at the quarterback position. I know we liked what we saw with Brock down the stretch, but is he the guy going forward in the next season or are you taking a peek at other options like Tom Brady. I don't think anybody's taking a peek up Tom Brady, not not on this side. You know, I think they'll go with Brock Purty to start the quarterback to start the season. Obviously, they all treat Trey Lance like a starter as well and get him prepared because obviously they're gonna need multiple quarterbacks, and they got to figure out what they're gonna do at the right tackle position. Mike McGlinchey is a free agent, and you know, maybe they'll try to bring him back, or maybe they another direction at that position. Um, that's a huge question mark. They gotta pay Bosta, so you know, there's there's some things that need to be done this offseason. But it was just an unfortunate way things happened. Even even so, you would have loved to see the game finished with the third string quarterback at least him healthy and having a shot without him having a shot is a bad culmination thing. Like you said, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. And and not to take anything away from you know, our friend of the program. There is big place, Leah. I know you gotta be happy for him. I know you probably it's it's good to see this Eagles team get a chance to go forward and win it all. But like you said, rich not not the type of game that you would expect between these two elites. But Richard, let's transition to the n f C Kansas City Chiefs playing in Arrowhead. There's a lot of people calling it Burrow had this week against Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals, and this is another game came down to the wire, big, big penalty call at the end, huge blunder by josephs Osai at the end there which I'm sure he's beating himself up bad Richard, your thoughts on this game? It just felt again weird. It felt like one sided in terms of penalties. The Bankers had nine penalties for seventy one yards and again crucial penalties. There's a there's a play where they gave him an extra third down where they said, hey, they were going to bald dead because of the I was supposed to start to stop, and they blew the clock dead after they didn't get the first down, like it was really weird. Then they give them another third down, and of course on that third down they give them a penalty that gets him a first down. And it just was it didn't feel right, and again that the ref should not be involved in the championship games. That shouldn't be involved in playoffs in general. You shouldn't be talking about the refs when you get to the playoffs. It should be like, hey man, this is an incredible play. Hey man, this was an incredible play. This guy made a heck of a play. But instead we're sitting here talking about, hey, what was that call? Like, hey, what happened there? And there were two miss holding calls on that same play, so it's like, hey, like they held two players and no call, And then of course you make the call where Burrows gets pushed out of bounds. But if you make the holding calls, then they negate each other and you replay the downs. And you just hate to see games decided like that, and you know it doesn't feel as earned. I hate the way it happened. I'm not a fan of the way the league. Let let this one go down. None of them refs, I can't say none of them, but you know those refs should not have a playoff game again, both both for both games. Yeah, Rich, I mean again, I mean, just watching this game from my own couch understanding you know how much is on the line. I'm with you. You could see numerous of those plays that you're referring to holding or I mean just TICKI tack calls that couldn't go both ways, but you're just gonna let them go. Most importantly with the Mike Hilton p I call at the end. You know, rapping rapping around thing was against Baldos Scantling. You see that play every given Sunday in every game, and it's not called. And even even the commentators said, we we don't call that. You know, you you look for a lot more aggressive motion and swinging the body around than just having your right arm around his hip. I mean, in those regular season calls, that's gonna piste a lot of fans off. Yeah, I mean, come on, I mean, it just doesn't make sense. And I you know, I mean that the league is the league, and it's gonna be a huge money maker and they're gonna have a super Bowl, and but it just it just taints the game. It taints the way you you view it and consume it. Kansas City, I'm sure is happy. Philly fans, I'm sure are happy. You know, their teams are going on. They benefited from the way the games were called, and that's cool. You know, nothing against those teams, but these refs called a horrible game in two games. And if you're a casual football fan, not a fan of either team, then and you're being objective, you're like, oh man, this is kind of it leaves a bad taste yourmount. You know, I'm sure it doesn't change anything for those guys, like you said, big Place leg gets to a super Bowl, James Bradberry goes from Cut to a super Bowl team. Uh then Don mckinsoe gets to another super Bowl. Lynville Joseph gets to one. You know, so it's it's great for a lot of guys who have been working their butts off to get to a super Bowl, and you're really excited for them. You just hate for the refs to be such a big storyline, and they were the storyline in both games. Obviously, it would have been hard for San Francisco to win, even in a perfectly called game with both quarterbacks going down. But at least you wanted to be called clean, like you wanted to be called fair. Are just hey? You know in the playoffs you swallow your whistle and met him play. You don't just blow your whistle on one team and then the other team you swallow you whistle because then that looks obvious. Richard, You've played in a lot of NFL games you as a competitor, have you ever known a play that you've been officiated from that you should enough? Is that a wrong? That's a fucking terrible question. Are hope I trying to ask this fucking question? Benefits? Man? I want I want the word been officiated to be officiated. Let's copyright itself, because that's what we get, a terrible officiating call. Any team, any team that from official is gonna be like, hey man, they would get being officiating over. There's a lot of bit officiating beneficiary of a bullshit. The only one I could think of is the film Mary We're Golden called it didn't catch it against Green Bay and that was the replacement ref so you're like, well, that's why. And then after that they brought the real risks back, but these ones felt like replacement refs. You're like, you're like some of those calls, You're like the Buffalo wild Wings call in the to stop the game and to get involved, because that didn't look like a passing the fence that didn't look like I holding, and then the place that looked like I holding, you're like, oh, that's holding right there, and you're like, oh, you guys aren't calling that right there in front of the quarterback while he's he's swimming like, it's not gonna call that, and it just it just Sully's I'm really I'm really unimpressed. Well, hey, Rich, this is this is concluded at least our a f C NFC Championship. We're gonna have a week to a couple of weeks. We're gonna have Pro Bowl here and then we got Super Bowl after that, so we're gonna have time to let this this weekend kind of subside in the emotions of it, get removed. But that's all first championship weekend. Appreciate you guys joining us. Sorry, you guys have to watch that beneficiated game. Uh, it's unfortunate. Congratulations to the Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs. We'll see you next week. The volume