Lately I’m not sure how many good scenarios can occur when sentences begin with “Richard Sherman said…” and if his Kanye-type rant with Erin Andrews wasn’t enough, the media is going back into the archives and digging up some material.

In one of the regular weekly columns he writes for the SI.com’s “Monday Morning Quarterback,” the Seahawk cornerback rated Peyton Manning as the smartest quarterback in the NFL but continued on by writing “his arm, however, is another story. His passes will be accurate and on time, but he throws ducks.”

Manning was asked about that comment on Thursday and noted, “I believe it to be true,’’ he said with a laugh. “They say he is a smart player, and I think that’s a real reach with what he is saying there. I do throw ‘ducks’. I’ve thrown a lot of yards and touchdowns ‘ducks’. I am actually quite proud of it.”

Sherman, who met the media after Manning, was told what Manning had said and responded: “I agree. That’s exactly what I said. That’s what I said.” In fact, Sherman had given a much more elaborate response on that topic when asked last week when the Seahawks were still in Seattle if he had any regrets about writing that comment. “No,’’ Sherman said then. “He still does it. I mean they’re accurate as ever, they’re accurate as ever. He throws spirals and they’re there, or he throws a wobbler, and it still gets there just the same. He really doesn’t care how he delivers the ball because it gets there just the same, accurately and on point. That’s what makes him a great quarterback. “Sometimes he’ll catch the ball and he won’t catch it with the laces, and he’ll throw it without the laces and get it exactly where he wants to get it. He doesn’t care how it looks and the receivers don’t care because all of them have 10 touchdowns right now, and everybody is getting what they deserve.”

Bronco receiver Demaryius Thomas said he hadn’t heard of Sherman’s original comment, but agreed that all that matters is that the ball gets there. “Whichever animal or word you want to use to describe Peyton’s passes, I’ll take them every day,’’ he said. “Whether that be duck, goose, cat passes, I’ll continue taking them.”