Earl Thomas Interview

[CouchLogic]

A lot of athletes talk the $#!+, no biggie [annoying sometimes]. Earl walked the walk until life got in the way, and not one person here hasn't gone through it at some point.

His attitude and thought processes are what they are. I don't care for 99% of players outside of football, a few here-and-there seem like cool cats though.

 

[IndyHawk]

Why?.. Do you know his story?... I watched that man come up slower & slower after each hit he made in his career and cte could be a reason he ended the way he did... brain damage is a real thing dude..

Since you know so much, did you know how much Earl led with his helmet
for big hits?
That is all on him because only an idiot uses head to do this and all players
who did (there is plenty) did this to themselves, I saw it many times.

 

[MD5eahawks]

Oh, that music! Who is in charge of letting that play in the background?

 

[rjdriver]

The best, and most complete member of the LOB has somehow become its most underappreciated.

Looking forward to his HOF speech next year.

You’ve always been a bit polarizing @Rat (which I like)…

But I could not emphatically agree more.

I remember traveling to SEA to take my son to a game during the latter part of the glory years. I couldn’t take my eyes off Earl Thomas. I’ve never seen someone command so much distance in so little time. If you didn’t follow what Pete meant with his ambiguous “tilt the field” comment, you only had to focus on Earl for a few series.

He allowed our DB’s to take risks for which other backs would be scathed. He created lockdown corners, because they literally only had a corner of the field which needed locked down. . His speed was unrivaled. He could hit like he was 40 pounds more (Hi Gronk), and he was respected by his own more than he was feared by others (leadership).

I get effin pissed thinking about how things crumbled for ETIII personally and professionally. I hope the late drama never takes away from the blessing that 2010 era Seahawks fans experienced. I hope we appreciate that we saw one of the most dominate free safety’s to ever play the game. I understand why Kam is and was such a fan fave, but Earl was the straw the stirred the drink IMHO.

Other than Pete, it was the selection of Earl that began one of the greatest modern era defenses we have ever known.

 

[rjdriver]

No one has ever said in comparisons between him and Kam in correlation to natural talent. Kam was the captain and enforcer. Earl was a beast but let’s not forget he washed out of the league.

I never doubted he would “wash out” off the league. Al thought listed at 200 pounds, he was more like 190. He played like a bat out of hell for 6 or 7 years, playing like he was 220 with that speed. In the end, Newton won.

 

[rjdriver]

I will add this…


If you want to be pissed at Earl for any reason, here is a good one.

The Jamal Adams trade.

Earl was Pete’s muse. Like a movie where a heartbroken and desperate older man goes to any extent to find and rekindle what he had with his first love. Pete was obsessed with filling the void that left with Earl. To the point of being irrational.

No one gives up two firsts for a safety unless….well….. you’ve had someone like Earl Thomas and think he can replicated.

 

[CalgaryFan05]

The music is brutal! ET was my favorite by a small margin over Kam, but then the AZ game happened, and Kam became my guy.

Hello no!

Kam was my guy. 150%. ET was finesse. Kam was a f'ing sledgehammer. Not even close IMO

 

[rjdriver]

Hello no!

Kam was my guy. 150%. ET was finesse. Kam was a f'ing sledgehammer. Not even close IMO

I love that Kam was your guy, I can see why! 6’3” 230-240 pounds is potent.

That said, I can’t disagree more with labeling ETIII finesse. Nobody was more fearless at any size. He may have made it look pretty, but there was nothing finesse about his game.

 

[JPatera76]

I love that Kam was your guy, I can see why! 6’3” 230-240 pounds is potent.

That said, I can’t disagree more with labeling ETIII finesse. Nobody was more fearless at any size. He may have made it look pretty, but there was nothing finesse about his game.

I still remember a patriots game where Earl and Kam both hit gronk at the same time, then post game reports came out that they fractured Gronks rib and gave him a possible punctured lung

Rob Gronkowski suffered possible punctured lung

I remember that play and gronk was stopped by Kam and earl came in like a cruise missle.

I also found it odd he kept playing and they didn’t drug test gronk.

 

[Seahawks fan]

Since you know so much, did you know how much Earl led with his helmet
for big hits?
That is all on him because only an idiot uses head to do this and all players
who did (there is plenty) did this to themselves, I saw it many times.

What?... Hey bud, I watched him his entire career and I watched him and he had concussions that probably weren't diagnosed, and the fact you said "It's his fault" for playing hard and putting his body on the line for his team and us the fans is ridiculously stupid and shows what you really know.... wow,.... I want that guy playing on my team any given sunday...

 

[Boycie]

Hello no!

Kam was my guy. 150%. ET was finesse. Kam was a f'ing sledgehammer. Not even close IMO

I guess because I was built more like Earl, and I loved how he would launch himself at guys. I kind of related to him more than Kam, because I played hockey the same way as Earl played football.

 

[SeaWolv]

Without Earl, nobody knows who Kam Chancellor is today.

Without Kam, Earl is still the best safety of his generation.

Really no question of who was better and more important to the success of the LOB.

I don't disagree the ET made Bam Bam better but Bam Bam always gonna Bam and that's why we loved him.

 

[HawkRiderFan]

Richard Sherman is a better Comp. Both those guys think the world revolves around them and have multiple times shown disregard for everyone but themselves. The ego in the LOB was very very strong from those two.

I have always thought that the very thing that made that group what they were was helped by what you described. They had that chip on their shoulder and attitude. But that was also what caused it to fall apart as fast as it did. The more I hear about that locker room now the more I understand how the end of the 2014 season ripped the team apart

 

[CalgaryFan05]

I don't disagree the ET made Bam Bam better but Bam Bam always gonna Bam and that's why we loved him.

LOB had synergy. They were greater than the sum of their parts.

And, I slag ET - pretty much over the finger, and the Cowboys locker room sales job fiasco.

Truth is, every member of the LOB made every other member better. Couldn't have run single high safety without ET. Love him or hate him - I have to admit that.

When I say finesse I meant things like the Goal line hand chop that turned an opposing TD into the touchback.

EVEN though I still can't get over his bullshit, ET is featured in one of my favorite Hawks quotes from all time from Kam in the offseason/training camp: "Did you see ET?! He's training with a PARACHUTE?!" That still kills me to this day