Patriots cornerback Brandon Browner raised a few eyebrows when he suggested in an ESPN interview that his teammates should target injuries of two of his former teammates, Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas.
“Those dudes are tough,” Browner told Josina Anderson. “Watching the game, you see Sherman was holding that arm like he had a sling on. But At the end of the day, this is about the Super Bowl. I’m gonna tell my teammates ‘go hit that elbow, go hit that shoulder. Most definitely. Hit it, yeah. Try to break it if you can. You can be my best friend after the game but, at the end of the day, I know you want the Super Bowl just as bad as I do.”
But if those comments got under the skin of Seahawks players, those two were asked about it Monday—Thomas and Sherman were not available to the media because they had talked the day before—nobody would say it.
“B.B. is like a brother to us, man,” safety Kam Chancellor said. “All I can say is God bless his heart. His heart, it tells everything. The man upstairs knows, so bless his heart.”
Receiver Doug Baldwin didn’t have a problem with Browner’s comments either, saying “I would expect nothing less. This is the Super Bowl. What do you expect? I understand the fans want it to be classy, said publicly, and everything to be said politically correct, but that is the truth of the matter. We want this game just as much as they do and they want this game just as much as we do. I expect nothing less from Brandon Browner. We go after them in an aggressive fashion just as much as they are going to go after us.”
(on if that is exploiting a team’s weakness) “Yeah, I think so, without a doubt. I believe that you find whatever edge you can or whatever weakness your opponent has and you try to take advantage of it so you can take the upper hand.
Update
OK, maybe not every Seahawks player was OK with that comment (every player talks to the media at the same time, so it’s impossible to catch everything that is said). But per ESPN’s Terry Blout, K.J. Wright wasn’t thrilled with what Browner said.
“I didn’t know he said that, but we don’t play like that,” Wright said. “We don’t go out there and try to hurt guys. And I don’t care if they do have an injury. We’re not going out there trying to hurt people, and especially guys you’re close to. If he said that, it’s fine, but that’s not our main focus.”
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