For well over a decade now, Richard Sherman has proven he's completely unafraid to step in and voice his mind on a topic that he's passionate about. Whether it's in regard to San Francisco “trying him” with “a sorry receiver” like Michael Crabtree on the deciding play of the NFC Championship or Skip Bayless minimizing Sherman's accomplishments years before they reunited as co-hosts of Undisputed, Sherman is vocal and outspoken, and more often than not, on the right side of the debate. This is one of those instances.

In the lead-up to Saturday night's Divisional Round game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers, one Milwaukee sports radio host is facing well-deserved backlash for a suggestion he made while discussing the matchup between the 49ers and Packers on Wednesday's show.

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This is a “hot take” that reeks of residual anger from a Packers loss to the 49ers in the Divisional Round of the Playoffs two years ago. And let's be clear, the level of hypocrisy here is absolutely through the roof, because if it were a Bay Area radio host who suggested doing the very same thing to Packers quarterback Jordan Love instead of Brock Purdy, “Chewy” — aka former Green Packers tight end Mark Chmura — would likely blow a gasket. And if he didn't, then it only proves that Chmura is simply a relic from an era of football where zero priority was placed on player safety, and maybe his opinion on such matters should be disregarded.

Fortunately, Richard Sherman stepped in and called “B.S.” like he has so many times in the past. There's a difference between going into a game and setting the tone as the more physical of the two teams, and as Chmura suggested, “knocking the living crap out of the guy” with a late hit that results in a 15-yard penalty, and surely Sherman, a former member of a secondary group known as “The Legion of Boom,” would know the difference.