Richard Sherman says Seattle's defense anticipated Denver's pass routes

[Auggie]

Richard Sherman and the Seattle Seahawks' defense shut down the Denver Broncos' record-setting offense as if they knew what was coming.

As Sherman tells it, the Seahawks actually did have a good idea about what plays Peyton Manning and the Broncos were going to run in Super Bowl XLVIII.

Sherman told themmqb.com that Seattle's star-studded secondary was able to anticipate Denver's pass routes by figuring out Manning's pre-snap hand signals during the Seahawks' 43-8 blowout of the Broncos on Sunday.

"All we did was play situational football," Sherman told the website in an interview held during one of the Seahawks' postgame victory parties. "We knew what route concepts they liked on different downs, so we jumped all the routes. Then we figured out the hand signals for a few of the route audibles in the first half."

http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2013/story/_/id/10403077/super-bowl-richard-sherman-claims-seattle-seahawks-anticipated-denver-broncos-plays-based-peyton-manning-hands

Sherman: "If Peyton had thrown in some double moves, if he had gone out of character, we could've been exposed."

Holy jumpin' catfish …

[trotsky]

1. Makes sense. It looked like they knew exactly what was coming every time.

I mean, they had 2-3 defenders positioned to immediately tackle the receiver. Every single time.