VIDEO: Richard Sherman Says ‘Thug’ Is The ‘Accepted Way of Calling Somebody the N-Word’ In Postgame Interview

Richard Sherman is never at a loss for words. But sometimes, he’d be better off keeping his mouth shut.

After Seattle won the NFC Championship and punched a Super Bowl XLVIII berth on Sunday night, Sherman provided some insight as to what he thinks about the English language in a postgame press conference.

“I know some ‘thugs,’ and they know I’m the furthest thing from a thug,” Sherman said. “I’ve fought that my whole life, just coming from where I’m coming from. Just because you hear Compton, you hear Watts, you hear cities like that—you just think thug, he’s a gangster, he’s this, that, and the other. And then you hear Stanford, and they’re like, ‘Oh man, that doesn’t even make sense, that’s an oxymoron.’”

“The only reason it bothers me is because it seems like it’s the accepted way of calling somebody the N-word nowadays. Because they know,” Sherman said.

Sherman, in my opinion, the best cover-corner in the NFL. But next time, maybe he should count to ten in his head before making some of these outlandish statements. It’s fine to get in your opponents’ heads, but sometimes he needs to take the high road.