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Been very interesting watching what the media focuses on this week. Obviously more in tune due to my favorite team in there. Mikes in front of Sherman, at every opportunity and almost disappointingly (for the media), he hasn't given the media what they've wanted, another adrenaline fueled smack talk, like post game 11 days ago.

He's come across and normal, well spoken, thoughtful and, yes, confident...as he is 95% of the time off the field.

The big story, not surprising to Seahawk fans, has been the hubbub over Lynch. He doesn't talk to the press week to week, and the Seahawks press doesn't really worry. Someone in the press corps did complain and he got fined $50k near the end of the year.

Thrust into the spotlight, he spends 6 minutes at media day, then comes back as a wallflower before Sanders gets a hold of him. Good points he made; no one wins anything by just talking. That prompted the Profootball Writers of America to start sniveling over that and formally complain to the NFL (press day has guys giving interviews in George Washington and Bee costumes) about his lack of appearance.

Yesterday with the second set of media rounds, he says he's there only because he doesn't want to get fined, and looked visibly uncomfortable, though Michael Robinson beside him.

Today, he talked a bit more, saying he likes Cable because Cable punched an assistant while in Oakland, and questioned why the media thinks they are a conduit to the fans when the fans don't care if they hear from a guy like him or not.

But, the handwringing over him not talking was borderline silly. He doesn't want to talk, he's forced to in the league, but his play does the talking...and his teammates support that. Spewing cliches is not his thing. Plus, there are what, 100 other players and numerous coaches at media day? Journalists would find those other stories (Jon Ryan's and Luke Willson's Canadian connections for example) rather then chasing and chastising one player.

Not a lot of smack talk between teams, as you'd expect. Both are class organizations with respect for the other team and their ability to get to this point, and not a lot of bombastic personalities.

Of course, after the media commitments for teams was done for the week today, Kaepernick decided to spew sour grapes over Sherman, talking about if he threw the ball a foot further, Sherman would be the goat, and that Sherman was scared of SF receivers, and that Sherman was disrespectful in talking about himself in the interview. Also, Manning was going to easily decimate the Seahawks secondary...this coming from a QB who's lost 3 of 4 games in his career to Seattle and thrown over half of his interceptions this year to Seattle players...and as far as respect goes, a week earlier mocked Newton in the Divisional game.