Seahawks Prove That Their Toughness Is Real and That Saints’ Is All Bluster

January 12, 2014   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

SEATTLE — In a stadium that was silent and practically empty, with no fans in the stands and less than a dozen players on the field warming up, Jimmy Graham went fake tough guy. If we're going down, he was thinking, we're going down in a blaze of trash talking, shoving, spittled glory.  
They tried, these New Orleans Saints. They tried to change their road mindset to shift the inevitable loss that was to come on a stormy, earthquake-y day. They even made a valiant run late, but in the end, in the outdoors, in the rain, in this place, the Saints can't win. In a place like this, where seasons die and the Seahawks have won 16 of their past 17, the Saints are frauds.
Graham would trash talk, and after the game, the Seahawks teed off on him.
Seattle's Michael Bennett ripped Graham in a post-game radio interview with Seattle's 710 AM radio. Then when I approached Bennett, he didn't back down one bit. "To me, he's one of the softest players in the NFL," Bennett ...

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