New England Patriots defensive lineman Richard Seymour denies claims by San Diego Chargers center Nick Hardwick that he is a dirty player. Hardwick made an off the cuff statement to the media around his locker after the Chargers lost the AFC Championship game on Sunday to the Patriots 21-12.
“There are 10 [expletive] good players on that team, but Richard Seymour is a dirty, cheap, little pompous [expletive],” Hardwick told reporters after the game. “They’ve got 10 great players on that team and when Jarvis Green comes on the field, they’ve got 11 great players who compete how you’re supposed to play.”
“But Richard Seymour is the biggest [expletive] I’ve ever played.”
Seymour responded to Hardwick’s charges in a Boston Globe article:
“Whatever I did, it was between the whistles,’ he said, according to the Globe. “Of course there is some pushing and shoving; it’s a physical game. That’s the way I play the game. There was nothing after the whistle, but it’s a violent game and I play the game violently.”
“My thing is that if you’re going to speak, please speak the truth,” he added, according to the Globe. “The film, if you look at the copy of the game that teams get, you can see what they were doing to me — pushing me over the pile, and all that stuff in the trenches. You can see it yourself. So for me, the proof is in the pudding. You judge a tree by its fruit.”
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