For the third time this week, Richard Sherman wasn’t shy about calling out NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for something the Seahawks cornerback sees as a double standard.
In defending Marshawn Lynch not wanting to speak to the media a day earlier, Sherman had made the point that players are forced to be available to the media multiple times a week during the season, but the people in power, such as Goodell, are not.
Goodell does do an annual press conference the Friday of Super Bowl week, however, and when Sherman was asked what he might ask of the commissioner were he to attended, Sherman answered, “I would ask him why he doesn’t do this weekly instead of annually.”
During Super Bowl Media Day Tuesday, Sherman had said, “I don’t think (players) should be obligated any more than (Goodell) is obligated to speak to the media. I think that if players are going to be obligated to speak to the media then every one of the NFL personnel should be obligated to speak to the media weekly, and that’s not the case.”
And Sherman makes a very fair point. The league threatens players with fines if they don’t talk to the media after games and during the week, yet Goodell has remained silent throughout the league’s latest controversy, the New England Patriots’ deflated ball scandal.
Oh, and Sherman had a thought on that topic too, saying on Sunday that he doesn’t expect the Patriots to be punished if is is proven that they altered footballs because of Goodell’s close relationship with Patriots owner Robert Craft.
“I think he was just at Kraft’s house last week for the NFC Championship,” Sherman said. “Talk about a conflict of interest.”
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