Amazon NFL commentator Richard Sherman must have felt like he stepped into “The Twilight Zone” on Thursday night when watching the Denver Broncos and Indianapolis Colts game.
With Russell Wilson under center at quarterback, the Broncos made the odd decision to throw the football on third-and-four, when the team was on the Colts’ 13-yard line with 2:13 left in the fourth quarter. The score was tied 9-9 in a mostly defensive game.
So a simple running play and a field goal kick would have forced the Colts to go the length of the field and at least match the three points on the other end to take the game into overtime.
And yet, Wilson threw the ball into the awaiting arms of Colts cornerback Stephon Gilmore, a former New England Patriot coincidentally, for the Colts to ice the drive and send the game into overtime, where they ended up beating the Broncos 12-9.
“Again, I wish I had Marshawn [Lynch] up here. One yard. You need one yard. Run the ball. Run the ball,” yelled Sherman. “All he has to do is run the football. Necessary criticism, I’ve said enough criticism for him, but god-dangit, run the dang ball. Like, learn from your mistakes.”
Richard Sherman let it all out in the postgame show:pic.twitter.com/s367JfpNOk
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) October 7, 2022
Sherman must have been having flashbacks to Super Bowl XLIX, when Wilson threw the ball at the goal line late in the fourth quarter and was picked off by Malcolm Butler to seal a loss for Sherman and the Seattle Seahawks to the Patriots.
The Seahawks could have simply handed the ball off to Lynch, and history might have been rewritten. Instead, it left the team permanently scarred and fractured one of the scariest rosters of the previous decade.
