Washington cornerback Josh Norman had nothing to say immediately after Carolina rescinded the franchise tag on Wednesday. Immediately after joining his new team, Norman had something to say about his old team.
“It came out of nowhere. It really did,” Norman told his new team’s official website. “I got sideswiped – I didn’t see it coming.”
“[I]t was crazy because Mr. Bruce [Allen], the President, hit [me] up right away with a jersey, No. 24,” Norman said. “And the crazy thing is I didn’t see it until a day and a half later because I was still getting over the fact of what was going on. Being somewhere 28 years all your life and just in a blink of an eye, gone, just like that, I’ve just never been without a job. . . . That small amount of hours, everything went rapid and I came up here and it just felt right.”
It will feel even more right if Norman completes his unfinished Carolina business in Washington.
“I’m looking forward to getting back to the playoffs here,” Norman said. “You guys went last year, I’m looking forward to going even deeper into the playoffs and then the Super Bowl. That’s our motto. That’s here, that’s the goal. That’s the ultimate goal. Yeah, you get to playoffs, you get deep into the rounds, the divisional and then the championship. I want to win the granddaddy of them all. I want to win the Super Bowl. And I’m not going to stop until I get back there. Because I know I will one day and then make the wrong a right.”
One team he’ll have to contend with an effort to make the wrong a right is his former team, which is trying also to make last year’s wrong a right. And he’ll get a chance to make last week’s wrong a right in Week 15, when his new team hosts his old team on a Monday night.