[Roberton3]

Maybe I'm remembering this wrong but I thought Sherman was bit of a "talker" on the field even when he was at Stanford (as are a lot of other DBs, it seems).

It's one thing to be a "talker" during the game.  But talking trash to a player from the losing team as he's walking off the field after the game is over is totally bush league (and tweeting a picture of yourself doing so just makes it worse).

Regardless, my biggest takeaway from that article was that defense has become a verb while I wasn't looking:

Besides the interception, Sherman was credited with three tackles and three passes defensed. Thomas had five tackles (two solo) and two passes defensed.

I hate the trend of verbing nouns. ;)  It's particularly bad when there's already a perfectly good verb with exactly the same meaning (such as "defended").  The other one like this that really bugs me is saying "gift" or "gifted" instead of "give" or "gave."

[Roberton3]

Maybe I'm remembering this wrong but I thought Sherman was bit of a "talker" on the field even when he was at Stanford (as are a lot of other DBs, it seems).

It's one thing to be a "talker" during the game.  But talking trash to a player from the losing team as he's walking off the field after the game is over is totally bush league (and tweeting a picture of yourself doing so just makes it worse).

Regardless, my biggest takeaway from that article was that defense has become a verb while I wasn't looking:

Besides the interception, Sherman was credited with three tackles and three passes defensed. Thomas had five tackles (two solo) and two passes defensed.

I hate the trend of verbing nouns. ;)  It's particularly bad when there's already a perfectly good verb with exactly the same meaning (such as "defended").  The other one like this that really bugs me is saying "gift" or "gifted" instead of "give" or "gave."