Are we going to talk about it?

[Hollandhawk]

Funny enough i really think that if russ retired instead of pushing his way to the broncos he would have a better chance of getting a jacket but that's where the off the field personal conception/connection/relatability which his cornball style , last couple years of play made it hard to relate to potentially costing his LEGACY to be tarnished and not set in stone
Earl went kinda nuts , great seahawks player but just another case where I say man , how much is cte really a thing that some of these guys don't checked but probably have in spades
Kinda feel for the guy cuz somethin ain't right

Can they detect CTE while you're alive now? It used to be a post mortem thing.

 

[MORGULON]

Funny enough i really think that if russ retired instead of pushing his way to the broncos he would have a better chance of getting a jacket but that's where the off the field personal conception/connection/relatability which his cornball style , last couple years of play made it hard to relate to potentially costing his LEGACY to be tarnished and not set in stone
Earl went kinda nuts , great seahawks player but just another case where I say man , how much is cte really a thing that some of these guys don't checked but probably have in spades
Kinda feel for the guy cuz somethin ain't right
So I guess I know why the nfl doesn't have players checked for cte , protect the shield but man they should , that would actually make them look better in lotsa peoples eyes

Don't they check for cte once a player passes away? Can they see it before?

 

[Spin Doctor]

Earl Thomas is a hall of famer. He was unquestionably the best safety of his generation. He was voted to three all-pro teams, had 7 pro-bowls and was also voted to the 2010s pro football HOF team. In addition to that he was part of the most iconic defense of the 2010s, the LOB. He also has a ring and appeared in yet another Super Bowl.

Those are HOF credentials no matter how you slice it.

 

[bmorepunk]

Thomas and Russell Wilson are good examples of people being too close to something not seeing the non-Seahawk fan perception or the general big picture. People are letting their feelings about how players left influence objectively trying to guess the chances of Thomas making it in.

Thomas and his play are very well known to people who will be making the decisions. He has the accolades as well. It is difficult to get in, but he's in with the top safeties from recent years.

 

[keasley45]

Weird how Kam always escapes criticism for his holdouts, but other players are selfish for trying to maximize their worth.

Kam held out. ET soldout.

 

[MD5eahawks]

I would love to see all of them make it in but realistically we all know all won't. I believe Lynch & Thomas have the best chance. I think Kam's chances are hurt by length of career. I feel that Kam's impact on that team was definitely undervalued from outside perspectives. He should have been Owl 48 MVP.

 

[MORGULON]

Thomas and Russell Wilson are good examples of people being too close to something not seeing the non-Seahawk fan perception or the general big picture. People are letting their feelings about how players left influence objectively trying to guess the chances of Thomas making it in.

Thomas and his play are very well known to people who will be making the decisions. He has the accolades as well. It is difficult to get in, but he's in with the top safeties from recent years.

You might have a point. Both of those guys were great. Better than great . But we're fans of a football team and feel screwed over when our players leave the way those two did . I could see Thomas making it , maybe not first ballet but who knows..

 

[CalgaryFan05]

You might have a point. Both of those guys were great. Better than great . But we're fans of a football team and feel screwed over when our players leave the way those two did . I could see Thomas making it , maybe not first ballet but who knows..

I have always held as one of my core beliefs in life that: There’s a right way and a wrong way to end things. Earl picked the wrong way. Several times.

 

[SmokinHawk]

Can they detect CTE while you're alive now? It used to be a post mortem thing.

I believe there is a test for how much "tau" protein is loose in the body, and that has a correlation to CTE.

 

[projectorfreak]

I remember reading a year or 2 ago about how they could reduce the issue with diet and a few other things so must be able to detect at least the possibility

 

[Glasgow Seahawk]

Thomas and Russell Wilson are good examples of people being too close to something not seeing the non-Seahawk fan perception or the general big picture. People are letting their feelings about how players left influence objectively trying to guess the chances of Thomas making it in.

Thomas and his play are very well known to people who will be making the decisions. He has the accolades as well. It is difficult to get in, but he's in with the top safeties from recent years.

In Wilson's case he is absolutely despised in Denver. Even though Seahawks fans soured on him, Denver fans flat out hate him. I'm sure they'll be vocal in saying hell no to his hall of fame chances. So much salary and draft capital wasted on him

 

[chris98251]

Kam held out due to the Williams contract, he made a statement that why should guys get paid when the ones here that have proved themselves have not. Or something to that extent. That was really the bottom line and why Kam was really the leader of LOB, none of them said shit about his holdout and supported him actually.

 

[Atradees]

If only he was more self absorbed and sex addicted

 

[BigMeach]

I'm confused. Why is it weird that Earl Thomas might go into the Hall of Fame as a Seahawk?

 

[NoGain]

Earl Thomas is a hall of famer. He was unquestionably the best safety of his generation. He was voted to three all-pro teams, had 7 pro-bowls and was also voted to the 2010s pro football HOF team. In addition to that he was part of the most iconic defense of the 2010s, the LOB. He also has a ring and appeared in yet another Super Bowl.

Those are HOF credentials no matter how you slice it.

Yup. You could even fancy it up a tad more. Voted three times first team all-pro, voted twice second team all-pro, to go along with his 7 pro-bowls and being voted to the NFL's all decade team. He had this insanely low number of times being beaten over the top as a free safety. I mean, GOAT-like in that way. He was easily top two players at his position in the NFL, and perhaps the very best for a solid streak of years.

And those two incredibly relentless TD saving tackles he made, and that hit on Gronk in which he said it was the hardest he was ever hit are still etched in my mind.

Terrible the way he ended his career with both the Hawks and the NFL, and all the shenanigans of his personal life. But he should be a certain HOFer IMO, in spite of how it all came to a close.

 

[Mad Dog]

On the field he's a total HOFer. Off the field he's a douche but that doesn't negate players from HOF. Guys that have been involved in murder are in the HOF.

 

[bigskydoc]

Surprised no one has mentioned his over the top wedding to Nina. The writing was on the wall then.

Like Mad Dog says, though, off the field behavior really doesn’t come into play. I don’t even particularly care about lost of it, or the flipping off Carroll. Going into the Cowboys locker room, is a burr under my saddle, and the off the field stuff is why I no longer wear his jersey, but none of that affects his HOF chances.

 

[Chuckwow]

Yeah there was a lot of unsavory moments I didn’t care for from ET but that treasonous bullshit he pulled in the Cowboys locker room after that game was the last straw for me. Unforgivable.

I concur. I have nothing for him. If he gets in...all good. If he doesn't, I'm good there too.

 

[Chuckwow]

On the field he's a total HOFer. Off the field he's a douche but that doesn't negate players from HOF. Guys that have been involved in murder are in the HOF.

Murder I can accept... but pandering to the Cowboys?
C'mon man.

 

[hgwellz12]

I believe there is a test for how much "tau" protein is loose in the body, and that has a correlation to CTE.

"tau" or "Tua"? Too soon? Yeah, too soon.