Here is more of what is ahead . Anything but peaceful at the conference amounted at ending syrias civil war. Just a few minutes. I cant promise you. Theres no way that the man who led the brutal response to his own people could regain the legitimacy to government. The focus has been on ending it. Its important for americans to recognise that we have young men and women in harms way. We need to see the job all the way through. After saving the game for seattle attention. That is a result youre going to get. That was immature, i regret doing that. We begin with bitter words and accusations that broke out almost immediately. Syrian peace talks began in switzerland, where opposing sides in the conflict met for the first time. Syrian foreign minister walid almuallem was defiant, becaming the rebels for atrocities and the destruction of the syrian culture and strongly rejected secretary of state john kerrys assertion that syrias president legitimacy. Translation we have come here as representatives of the people and the state. Yes, but no one no one, mr kerry, in the world has the right to give legitimacy or to withdraw legitimacy from a president , a government, a constitution or a law or anything in syria, but syrians. This is the right of the syrian people, and their constitutional duty. The syrian foreign minister refused to leave the podium despite numerous requests from u. N. Chief bank banki moon. Can you a wrap up in one or two minutes. No, i cant promise you. You live in new york, i live in syria. I have the right to give the forum. Yes, of course, i do not object to that. This is my right. For more on the talks im joined by Al Jazeera America correspondent nick schifrin, who is at the talks in montreaux switzerland. Good to have you back. Surprise. We knew going in that the u. S. And the Syrian Opposition felt Bashar Alassad had to go, and the syrians say assad had to say. Said. There is no way no way possible in the imagination that the man who has led the brutal response to his own people could regain the legitimacy to govern. One man, and those who supported him can no longer hold an entire nation and a region hostage nick, with dim et rickly opposed position, how will they get anywhere . Theres a lot of people here that say they are not going to get anywhere. What the u. S. Officials im talking to say is wait a minute, yes, the rhetoric is a cas between the two sides. Everyone is staking their claims, everyone is saying the worst thing that they could when it comes to starting peace talks. But at least they are here. But the two sides are in the same room. Its the first time that happened in three years of war that killed 130,000 people. The u. S. Points out we are all here and great on one thing, the geneva 1 communique. Something that everyone signed and agreed to before they came here. In that communique it says that all the governments here, all the delegations agree to move forward to create a transitional government. It will not include current president Bashar Alassad. The u. S. , the u. N. , the russians that back syria that are on the same page is the Syrian Government that used its stance, suggesting that Bashar Alassad will not go anywhere, that he might run for president again. The u. S. Say thats because they sign that, if the rhetoric is negative, the us hopes the syrians will stick to the pledge and consider creating a traditional governor. Banki moon said his hope for dialogue had been stopped by the syrian foreign minister, who went into a diatribe accusing nations of supporting the insurgence, supporting women to engage in sex business and incest. And a defender against terrorism is what Bashar Alassad is portraying himself. This is what they believe. Theres no sense that president Bashar Alassad, and his family have any sense that they want him to stop. Theres no sense that in order to give up weapons and the violence that the opponents say that the u. S. Says, that he is unleashing on the civilian population. The u. S. Is trying to find a pressure point. President obama came up to he stepped away and said that hes happy theres no second or third middle eastern war that the u. S. Is involved in. Given that, cary is trying to find another pressure point. That is why kerry said again and again that Bashar Alassad was isolated. He was the only perch. It was about the family. Its kerrys attempt to communicate this notion that he cannot continue to act with impunity. Hes isolated and no one was supporting him. Russia and iran are supporting him. Theres no evidence that Bashar Alassad feels the pressure, and no evidence that Bashar Alassad violence. The conflict was not just inside the room. Outside. This is a symbol of how far apart the two sides are. A few feet from me in the hall i witnessed a confrontation with a prosyrian journalist and opposition. They were yelling, screaming, accusing each other of being terrorists. On the other side of the hall there was a progovernment rally where people asserted loyalty. At the same time you had opposition fighters and representatives chanting and creating a mock funeral. It shows how far apart the two sides are. Theyve been far apart for three years, the u. S. Hopes that at least this starts a dialogue. Nonetheless on friday morning they are supposed to stand side by side or sit across the table from each other. Theres no sense that therell be a break there. Theres no sense that concrete details will come out of that immediately, the u. N. Is hoping to get baby steps, a prisoner release, or some kind of localized ceasefire. Theres a lot of pessimism as to whether this conference will produce results. Therell be mediation on thursday. Lets hope something comes of this, there are millions and millions of people suffering displaced, refugees and so many have died and been injured. Joinings now from College Station texas is ambassador ryan crocker, serving as United States ambassador to syria, iraq and afghanistan and is the dean of the George Bush School of government and public service. Great to have you with us. Lets start with the syrian president , Bashar Alassad, and the main reason we are negotiating there in geneva, you advocated in a New York Times oped that the u. S. Should engage with the regime. Syrian rebels were not happy. Its not Barack Obamas position. Why would that work. Its simple. The regime is not going away. Bashar alassad is not going away. We could wish it otherwise, buts we have to deal with the world as it is. If there is ever going to be a negotiated solution, we are going to need to Start Talking directly to the syrians, not Bashar Alassad, but members of his regime. You wrote that Bashar Alassad is more rigid than his father and many westerners hoped he would be different. You were firm in that belief, that that has not changed, and you wrote that you think hell end up winning the war in a bloody way, little by little as time goes by . I certainly do believe that he is more rigid, less flexible than his father. I was ambassador to syria at the time when his father died and he took over. I had the chance to have several one on one meetings with him, and i came to realise that he grew up under the system. His father had a relatively liberal education for the place and time. Not Bashar Alassad. I posited who outcomes. The one you mentioned the momentum may shift, and he may get it backyard by bloody yard. The other possibility is at some point it will settle down into a stalemate. I dont think a rebel victory is likely. I think we can be grateful for that. You have millions displaced in the meantime if this goes on and on and on, if there is a stalemate. You are concerned and think it is better to have Bashar Alassad in place, than to allow the opposition to win the war . Well, its not a question of the International Community, the United States or anyone else allowing anyone to win the war. Why . We have to be modest about our ability to control events, we cannot control the outcomes. Unless the United States and the International Community intervene and throw serious military force behind the Syrian Opposition. John kerry spoke at the peace talks on wednesday, and he just talked about how the Bashar Alassad regime is a terrorist regime, backed by iran, that it has hezbollah, that it crossed over from lebanon and says Bashar Alassad is making them a magnet for terrorists. It doesnt sound like someone interested in engaging the Bashar Alassad regime. What do you think about what john kerry said . I think there is plenty of terrorism to go around on both sides of the fight in syria. Certainly on both sides of the assad regime, which has committed atrocities, and not just with poison gas. As we consider what we want to see, again, aside from what we can effect. We have got to consider what the nature of the opposition is. The real opposition are not the people sitting there in geneva, these couple of days, they are elements like al nusra, elements like the Islamic State of iraq and syria, led by abu bacar. These are basically al qaeda. So i make no apology for the Bashar Alassad regime. Its despicable, its guilty of gross acts of terror. Crims against humanity. The other side is not a whole lot better and could be worse from regional stability. Were they to take power. On the eve that reports were released with the alleged torture and killing of the detainees. The president , the opposition group, talked about it in a at the peace commence on wednesday. Lets listen to that. We call for an inspection. If this is happening, i would like to know what you make of the report. You mentioned the poison gas. If we have evidence of these other war crimes, what should be do . I agree with mr james jatras, if it can be done, an investigating body, if it can be assembled and get into the country and do an investigation, i think that will be very important. Because we have convicted nar tifs here. There is no way from outside that we can really ascertain the truth. I hope there could be that kind of commission. I would say, though, that such a commission would need access not only to regime facilities and investigate regime activities, they need to take a close, hard look at what the opposition has done and is doing. It was a rocky start to the peace talks. Do you think something rocky can come of them . Today was the opening session. Friday the parties, themselves, will sit down face to face, and i understand therell be preliminary work done by a u. N. Mediator with both sides during the course of thursday. So well find out on friday. I would be quite modest in my expectations after what we heard from all the parties to this conflict. But i do think there are some outcomes that could be achievable. For example, agreement to allow increased amounts of humanitarian assistance. More help for the internally displaced and perhaps some local ceasefires. If that were to be the outcome on friday, then i would consider this a conference that succeeded beyond my expectations. Lets hope they succeed. Its been a pleasure having you on the show. No one doubts americas military strength. After struggles in iraq and afghanistan, has the u. S. Lost an ability to win laws. Should a mans viability rap lyrics be used against him in a murder case. And what is tracking on the web. We have a sad state of affairs in relation to antidepressants, and why many cannot shake them. What do you think our indepth series on education continues. How does math keep boys out of jail . Thats an indirect equation, i would say. Algebra is the answer part of our week long lndepth series. Only on Al Jazeera America. Al Jazeera America. We open up your world. Here on america tonight, an opportunity for all of america to be heard. Our shows explore the issues that shape our lives. New questions are raised about the american intervention. From unexpected viewpoints to live changing innovations, dollars and cents to powerful storytelling. We are at a Tipping Point in americas history Al Jazeera America. Theres more to it. The United States is undoubtedly the greatest military power in the world. Has it forgotten how to win wars . According to a provive article in the l. A. Times by a professor of International Relations and former ltcol in the army, and i quote for more im joined by the professor, the best selling author of many books, including breach of trust, how americans failed their soldiers and their country. You say that the u. S. Military is second when it comes to skills and gadgets, and that it struggles to finish the job. Did this start with vietnam. . Is the problem with the military overseers. I think the problem has many aspects, but the most important and probably the most difficult for americans to reckon with is that military power is an inappropriate instrument to deal with the conditions that exist in places like afghanistan and iraq. We came out of cold war, the United States came out of the cold war, having convinced itself that military power was an allpurpose tool. In many respects Operation Desert Storm in 1991 seemed to affirm that conclusion. All of our experience since, whether you are talking somalia in 1993 or the post 9 11 wars, that was a different story, we are using the wrong tools to solve the problem lets talk about afghanistan. 9 11 . No, i think we needed to. The george w. Bush administration demanded after 9 11 that the taliban cough up osama bin laden, dismantle training camps. The taliban refused to do so. I think it was necessary for us to demonstrate that any nation providing sanctuary for terrorists intent on attacking us needed to be taught a lesson. We needed to make clear to the world that that was unacceptable. What doesnt follow is we needed to stay for after a decade trying to create a stable political order. That turned out to be a task we cant handle. President obama spoke out about the war in afghanistan a week ago, id like to play part of it and get your reactionism. I think its important for americans to recognise that we have young men and women in harms way, and Coalition Forces making sacrifices and we need to see the job all the way through what would seeing the job mean in afghanistan. What would winning the war mean in afghanistan. There are reports that the u. S. Plans to draw down to zero troops by the end of the president s term. Of course, the president is understandably vague about what finishing the job is. There has been many definitions overtime. At this point the Obama Administration administration would be satisfied with extricating all or most of u. S. Forces and not have the hamid karzai regime collapse at least not until obama leaves office. That may be the most practical definition of success. What we need to remind ourselves of is the distance between that definition of success and the definitions touted in the immediate wake of 9 11. Recall that the invasion of afghanistan was touted, was named Operation Enduring freedom. There was an expectation that somehow we were going bess toe freedom on the peopleful afghanistan. It was absurd and hasnt come to fruition. You dont have an argument with going in, but we went too far in defining what we thought winning the war would be. Absolutely, and we went too far in articulating a global war on terrorism. Its that formulation, engaging in a war on terrorism that creates a rationale for going from afghanistan to iraq, the invasion of iraq. There was no justification for that. Another mismanaged war from which we are trying to recover. We are seeing how things are falling apart there. There was the intervention in the former yugoslavia in kosovo and bosnia. That seemed to work. I think thats probably the closest case you can get to post cold war interventions that produced unbalanced outcomes, albeit the occupation of kosovo ended up taking a much longer time. Let me emphasise my argument is not that there are never cases where military power has utility. There are cases. I think that the problem with policy makers in the United States over the past couple of decades is that they have tended to think that all problems can have a political solution. Excuse me, a military solution. We went into libya and helped overthrow muammar gaddafi. Its been a disaster. Its a mess there. Qaeda. A question that comes to mind is is the problem intervening in countries where there are parts of the population, mostly muslim states. I dont think id phrase it that way. I think id phrase it that theres a problem with inspecting that foreign intervention in societies that are in the process of immensely complicated transition, transition to modernity, trying to reconcile religious traditions with the 21st century. To imagine that a bunch of american soldiers can facilitate that transition in a relatively short period of time is a delusion. The people themselves, whether we are talking about libyans, iraqis, av caps, egyptians, and irrelevant. A lot of throughoutprovoking information. Switching topics. Violent rap lyrics are at the center of a case before the Supreme Court. Vonte was convicted of a murder of a drug dealer in 2008. A prosecutor was allowed to read 13 pages of skinners lyrics that included a higher court overturned skinners conviction saying the lyrics should not have been admitted as evidence. The prosecution has taken the case to the new Jersey Supreme Court of the for more on rap i ereric neil son. He is a consultant or served as an Expert Witness in rap music. Do the prosecutors have a point, cant rap lyrics show motive or intent or the character of the person who is being tried . I think that second word is the key. Its important to make a distinction between the justifications that prosecutors use for bringing in the lyrics and the reasons they are using them. Prosecutors will say that they show motive and intent. I argue that wrap lyrics dont do that. They say say they are inculpa tory statements. That is after the fact. Correct. What i would say is what they are really doing it trying to get this evidence in front of a jury in order to smear the defendants character. You cant say to a judge, i would like to introduce violent liarics to make this person look lyrics to make this person look like a thug. The reality is that its being used just to get the lyrics in front of a jury, because we know that they are prij dicial. You wrote about the skinner case. Most of the lyrics were written well before he was tried. Yes. You noted that the acou found 18 cases where courts considered rap lyrics as evidence and they were admitted as evidence. Im a lawyer, and i was surprised when i read that. Theres really hesitation on the part of most judges to affect prior bad acts because they can prejudice a jury in a particular case. Are wrap lyrics treated expression. Absolutely. In the research of mine and other scholars who looked into this, andrea dennis, a law professor at the university of georgia, our Research Reveals rap music is only fictional or musical genre to be treated this way by courts. It is exclusively targeted in these ways. Lets play a couple of clips from two famous recording artists who sang about violence i shot a man in reno just to watch him die and i hear that whistle blowing i shot the sheriff but i did not shoot the deputy now, you wrote that nobody would assume that johnny cash or Brett Easton Ellis who wrote american psycho would have committed murders that they sang or wrote about. The question becomes but you dont read about country singers going out and reading people or authors going out and killing people. While most rap artists are not violence, theres a long History Associated with wrap. We have one rap person dying a violent death, tattooing, thug life, but should they be treated differently. No, they shouldnt. I resist a little bit depicting rap or hip hop culture as being associated with violence. Hiphop has long been a productive force. Underlying this criminalisation of wrap lyrics, if you will in the courts, and the decades long assault on hip hop is an assumption that it goes hand in hand with violence. There are no genre is immune from having connections to violence. What hip hop has done over the last 30 years is worked in tangible ways to transform violence into something productive, something artistic. If you go back to hip hops earliest roots, it was born out of a dangerous gang culture characterising 1970s new york. And a pioneer of hip hop, was the leader of a fearsome gang, and he started moving hip hop forward so he could give people involved in gangs something productive, meaningful to do. A lot of it didnt productive. How so . Well, when you know, theres misonlienism, calls to violence, negative things in some wrap. I think in some rap is the key. One ofs things that draws me to rap music is the exceptional work out there. If you think about literature, 50 of paper back sales are supermarket romances. We dont use those to characterise literature. I would resist using the misonly nistic. Its competitive or redundant. I will note that in those cases, thats provided a livein for someone. Ice t polarizing figure on the one point said it. If it hadnt been for rap. If he hadnt had a chance to wrap, he would be dead or in that. One question you talked about confessions. We have a case in nevada where the Supreme Court of that state allowed those statements to go in. It was something that the person had written after the crime had been committed. In those cases do you think the rap lyrics should come into the case. That was a split decision. There was a decision. If rap lyrics mirror a crime and seem like a confession seem like is an important phrase. They are not confessions. The first thing we have to understand and we typically do when we talk about other genres is theres an author and narrator. Rap is no different. The problem is with Something Like gangster wrap, the violent subgenre, eventually if you write enough of those lyrics, one of them will mirror any number of crimes. In a lot of cases the kids are writing notebook full of lyrics. It will not be hard to flip through and find something that corresponds to murder. Its an interesting point. Thank you for having me. Time to see what is trending on the website. Millions of americans turn to antidepressant drugs to battle a range of issues. What happens when the drug becomes a hurdle. Longterm use of antidepressants is common in the u. S. 16 million americans used antidepressants for two years. 70 of them are women. When longterm users try to come off the drug they have physical and psychological reaction to the decrease of the drugs in their system, including anxiety, headaches, dizziness, shocklike sensations and suicidal thoughts. Many wrote about your personal experience. Elizabeth said you can read more at the website aljazeera. Com. Experts say part of the problem is the medications are ov overprescribed to women for things that may have nothing to do with depression, such as insomnia system. They help a lot of people, but you have to be careful not to overprescribe them. Americas decrime has been in place for years. Are we missing the point . Do mini cars an a leg up on s. U. V. S . Race and the postgame rant. Why Richard Sherwin is grabbing Al Jazeera America is a straightforward news channel. Its the most exciting thing to happen to american journalism in decades. We believe in digging deep. Its unbiased, factbased, indepth journalism. You give them the facts, dispense with the fluff and get straight to the point. Im on the ground every day finding stories that matter to you. In new orleans. Seattle bureau. Washington. Detroit. Chicago. Nashville. Los angeles. San francisco. Al Jazeera America, take a new look at news. Americas decline has been a political talking point for years. Political magazine looks at the issues in an article entitled americans stop worrying and learn to love decline, why 2014 will be the best year yet. We are joined by a senior fellow of Global Development and the author of the upside of down, why the rise of the rest is great for the west. Theres data saying that america is not the dominant Economic Force it was. The ukbased center for Economic Services says china will overtake us. You said its not a design that we are going down, but the rest of the world is coming up. China became the largest trading nation in the world, overtaking the United States, and thats the first of many firsts to come, if you will. But that is not bad news for the United States. Its not that the United States hasnt seen growing exports, its done well. Its china has done better. China has grown fast, 7, 8, 9 over the last 20 or so. India and brazil has been growing faster. Theres fewer poor people, educated people, and they are producing goods that we want to buy and producing demand for goods we want to sell. Its good all around. Some analysts say there are benefits to being dominant economically, and its not a question of the rest of the world catching up to us, but we are voluntarily contracting. That we are doing things that are making us not move forward as quickly and stay as strong. Hey, im sitting in washington d. C. I can hardly argue that congress and the president shouldnt be doing a better job. I accept there are some roles for the United States doing things wrong. It good be engaging proactively, pushing trade and investment and more, and that would strengthen the u. S. Economy. Having said that most of the story is a story of other places not doing things wrong. A few decades ago it was killing off millions of its population. That is not a real way to go, as well as being a disgusting human rights event. Now its doing things better not great, but better. We have seen huge reforms in indias economy. So the story of the growing rest is the bigger part of a story, wrong. You said that its returning to the default position in human history, that countries with larger populations are more dominant economically. The critics of the position that you take say well, it is a choice. We have chosen not to go after all natural resources, going, you know, offshore drill, drilling in the arctic. We are pulling back, letting other countries catch up and losing our primacy in space. The last 100 years or so the americas growth has grown 2 , china and india 78 . The United States never grows that fast. Its a rich country at the edge of technology. It doesnt have the opportunity for catchup growth, for using the technologies and institutions we developed to grow faster like india, china and brazil. Its not a story of what is happening here, but a story of what is going on in the rest of the world. You think theres a Silver Lining and the title talks about 2014 being the best year yet. Absolutely. A richer, healthier more secure world is a huge opportunity for the United States, not least over the recent past, one of the few bright spots is growing experts. Three fifth of u. S. Exports go to the developing world, and that can afford to import the u. S. Exports because its getting richer. They make money from patents and royalties. We get a benefit to. A richer africa and china produce more innovators, many coming to the United States. A big part of success is attracting migrants to startup companies, driving the innovative potential of silicon valley. There are huge upsides from the off. We have a social question. If america declines in the world it shows a more level Playing Field and agrees with you, but gin your article travels given that your article applies conventional view . It is not a popular view. Its generally if one side is up, the other side must be done. If the republicans take over the white house, the democrats have lost. Thats a dumb way to think about politics. Its about partnerships, true in tried, investment, migration and true if we can come to peace agreements. Areas like syria. If we can work with russia and china to create peace, its better than sitting in our own weapons. Do you see danger if the United States pulls back and is not the dominant force, the superpower in the world. We have been a begin superpower. If we pull back, that someone else will fill the vacuum. I dont want america to pull back. I want it to engage more. What is sad is how few americans get out and go somewhere else to study or live or invest or trade or retire or get health care. If more americans travelled and went overseas, that would be a great thing. If we traded more, that would be a great thing. The role for the u. S. , the Global Military leader will continue for a while. Its an Important Role, playing on Important Role in peacekeeping efforts. The military provide 0. 03 of troops involved in unpeacekeeping, most coming from developing countries. Partnership. Great to have you back on the show. Appreciate you joining us. Thank you for having me. Ahead alarming crash tests may make you rethink what car youll buy. Why one of the n. F. L. s best players is gaping International Fame for something other than his play. States. Researchers say air pollution from the factories made its way across the pat iffic, into california and arizona. The u. S. National academy of science says it makes up a quarter of air pollution. The pollution is a reminder that our demand for cheep imports has a boomerang effect. Chinese factories are churning out the latest technology, sending it to our shores, along with something less desirable pollution. You see the pictures of people in budget with maths on. You dont think about what comes across an o. 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Todays data dive puts the breaks on small cars. The chev roe lay spark is the only of the mini cars to pass a crash test by the Insurance Industry of Highway Safety. It was rated acceptable. It looks at what happens if they smash into another vehicle or an object like a tree. The honda fiat pulled it from a recommended vehicles list. The structure collapsed. The dummys head slid past the airbags and hit the instrument panel. There was problems with the foot pan em likely causing leg and hip injuries. A revamped model will debut this spring. The fit was joined by five others in achieving a grade of pour. The fiat 500s door ripped off its hinges. Four others had a marginal score. Its the worst scores. Are smaller cars less safe. It depends, you can brake faster and the lower center of grave itty makes it less likely to flip over. They are far better in frontend crashes. Researchers at buffalo looked at severe headon collisions and found the odds of death are 7. 6 times higher for the driver of a smaller car than the driver of an s. U. V. S. U. V. S had one of the lowest rates of deaths in tests conducted by the Highway Safety group. The lowest risk of death mini vans. I dont think it will make them any cooler. Seattles Richard Sherwins postgame rant and statements that overshadow his next game the super bowl. Al Jazeera America. We understand that every news story begins and ends with people. The efforts are focused on rescuing stranded residents. We pursue that story beyond the headline, pass the spokesperson, to the streets. Thousands of riot Police Deployed across the capital. We put all of our Global Resources behind every story. It is a scene of utter devastation. And follow it no matter where it leads all the way to you. Al Jazeera America, take a new look at news. Al Jazeera America gives you the total set. The big game has been overshadowed by the this. Well, im the best one in the game. When you give me a sorry receiver, thats what you get. Dont you open about the best. Those comments from seattle sea hawks Richard Sherwin set off a firestorm in social Media Services and the media. Out raged viewers called him a thug and outline sorts of enny thets. Others rallied to defend him as a passionate man. Why were many upset by what sherwin had to say. We are joined from Silver Spring by al jazeera contributor dave, great to have you on the show. Sherwin admitted it was a little immature and not a classy interview, but he made a huge play to send the team to the super bowl. He was disreported by the receiver. Why a big fuss, is it about the way he said it . First and foremost its about the form of what he said, than the content. He didnt say inflammatory or political or third rail. I mean, its not like he was giving his opinions on theize rayleigh palestine conflict. He got up there and did things we dont see, in that he did not put us to sleep. I was watching the game. They had left my house by the time the interview happened. He looked into the camera, spoke like he was in a wwe promo. And it was praising. When all of the racist trolls got online it transformed into Something Else entirely. Lets talk about that. There was a huge wave of racist tweets directed at sherwin calling him every name in the book. Here is what he said today about the worst of the responses. We are talking about football here, and a lot of people took it further than football. You know, i guess some people showed, you know, how far we have really come in this day and age. Much of the outright racism wasnt even anonymous. All over a 15 second rant. Did that surprise you . It did not surprise me. A lot of racism was highly coded as well. One study showed a lot was not coded. Categories. High racism is all of the n words and raicial epithats, and the other is when you look at an intelligent player, coming out of stanford, writes a column for sports illustrated, and all of a sudden hes just a thug. The word thug was used in sports media after the game, more than any other time in the last three years, and all directed at Richard Sherwin. You have to ask a question, did it only happen because of the colour of his skip, his attitude and the fact that he was standing next to aaron andrews, and he is the very blond telegenic sideline reporter for fox sports. She handled herself well on the sideline, yet immediately when it went to the fox News Anchor Team one said, wow, erin looks scared. Scared. We are looking at her now. She didnt look scared. Afterwards she said she wasnt interview. Exactly. He gave an interview with cnn said. If you catch me in a moment on the field when im still in the zone, as competitive as i can be, it wont come out as articulate, smart or charismatic. On the field im not all those things. Im everything i need to be to be a winner. He hedged the apology, but did he need to apologise. No, but he did something smart. Richard sherwin is a team player, is fifthround draft pick, hell be the defensive player of the year. At the end of the interview he yelled out lob. Legends of boom. Its the nickname for the secondary of seattle. He wants the focus off him and to the Seattle Seahawks organization and celebrate their making it to the super bowl. He referenced mohammed ali. I studied mohammed ali, dion sanders, jerry irwin. The old school more than the new school. It rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Given a true speech after a game, a true passionate speech is old school football. He mentioned dion sanders a commentator in a postgame show. He said he didnt think sherwin woox. And i would never mutt mohammed ali and sanders in the same sentence. He should send sherwin a check. Do you know who an a lot like them is Peyton Manning. Ali played a psychological game like Richard Sherwin does. What do people think Peyton Manning does when he goes up to the line saying, omaha, its in a different packaging, but the same gamesmanship is happening on both sides of the line of scrimmage. Isnt this the best thing that could have happened. As you said earlier in a league full of players, going through media straining and saying nothing, they are never passionate, much less controversial, now this guys name is everywhere, and jamie fritz said Corporate America knows who richard sher win is. They are fired up, love it. They say its real. We have a player willing to speak his mind. 30 seconds, dave, no such thing as bad publicity . There is if you cant perform on the field, then all of his braggadocio and locuaciosuness about be used against him. 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