Former Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman is most certainly headed to the Hall of Fame. He doesn't think Matthew Stafford should be joining him there. Not yet, at least.
Sherman took to Twitter to shoot down the notion that Stafford is now a Hall of Famer on the heels of winning his first Super Bowl -- an idea put forth Monday by Michael Robinson on Good Morning Football
"Yes, he's a gold jacket, absolutely," Robinson said. "The numbers bear it out and now, the ultimate team goal, which is to win a Lombardi, to win a Super Bowl, Matthew Stafford actually has, and he was a huge part of winning this particular Super Bowl."
Sherman wasn't having it.
He said the Hall of Fame bar has become "incredibly low. Like a participation trophy." And as he correctly pointed out about Stafford, "no All-Decade Team. No All-Pro. No MVP. One Pro Bowl. Not even MVP of the Super Bowl. Never considered the best in any year he played."
Sherman has some ground to stand on. He's a five-time Pro Bowler, three-time All-Pro and a member of the NFL's All-2010s Team. In his prime, he was widely considered the best cornerback in the game. By contrast, Stafford has never been considered even one of the league's five best quarterbacks.
In response to the idea that Stafford went overlooked while he played the first 12 years of his career in Detroit, Sherman (again correctly) pointed out that Calvin Johnson, a first-ballot Hall of Famer, received plenty of recognition over his nine-year career with the Lions.
Stafford did amass some impressive passing totals during his time with the Lions and stands out as the fastest player in NFL history to hit several yardage milestones. But if the Hall of Fame is supposed to be the best of the best, Stafford still has a ways to go.
It's not to say that he can't get there. He just turned 34. He can burnish his resume with several more seasons in LA like the one he just had, including throwing for nearly 5,000 yards and over 40 touchdowns and posting a passer rating of 102.9. But a quarterback with a career passer rating of 91.1 does not belong in the Hall of Fame.
At least not yet.