Richard Sherman yelled at Seattle OC for passing on 1-yard line

Seattle's Richard Sherman was irate with Darrell Bevell for calling a pass play from the 1-yard line, later saying "we've already seen how that goes."

The Seahawks ended up running away with a fairly easy 24-3 victory over the Rams last night, clinching the NFC West title. But, when the game was still in question, one play made Seattle's Richard Sherman absolutely irate.

The Seahawks held a 10-3 lead with the ball on the LA's 1-yard line after a short run. The next play was a pass, and it appeared to be intercepted in the corner of the end zone.

Luckily for Seattle, after review, the play remained an incompletion as a result of Jimmy Graham‘s hand being on the ball while he stood out of bounds. That didn't make Sherman feel any better about the play call, though.

Within moments, he was seen screaming at offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, and even a bit at head coach Pete Carroll. Eventually, he had to be restrained by defensive coordinator Kris Richard.

Perhaps you could categorize Sherman's symptoms as football's version of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. During Super Bowl XLIX, the Seahawks threw from the 1-yard line in the final moments trailing by four points, as you all surely remember. Russell Wilson‘s pass was picked off by Malcolm Butler, and sure victory for Seattle evaporated in an instant.

Two years later, Sherman is haunted by the thought of something like that happen again, even in a regular season game that the Seahawks were well in control of.

From Curtis Crabtree and Kevin Shockey of 950 KJR in Seattle:

“We throw an interception at the 1, luckily it went incomplete and I wasn't going to let them continue to do that.”

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“I'm upset about us throwing from the 1,” Sherman said… “We've already seen how that goes. I'm sure you guys have seen that play enough times.”

When Carroll talked to reporters, he downplayed the situation:

“He was fired up. It was good,” he said. “Between what he was saying and Doug was saying, Doug was saying give me the ball and Richard was saying something else and I needed those two guys to go sit down and have a little timeout and talk it over and see what we should do next.”

When asked if it was about the play-calling, he said: “No, no. It was nothing. It was just guys being fired up.”

But, Sherman clarified the contrary:

“I was letting Pete know,” he said. “I was making sure Pete knew that we're not comfortable with you throwing the ball at the 1.”