Seahawks fans should not boo Earl Thomas in week seven

12s shouldn’t boo Earl Thomas when he returns to play the Seahawks in week 7. The Ravens safety earned respect in Seattle no matter how it ended.

We 12s remember how Earl Thomas spent his last few seconds on the field as a member of the Seahawks. He was being carted off and giving the larger of the middle fingers to the Seattle sideline. This seemed in extremely poor taste as Seahawk owner Paul Allen was ill and died just a few weeks later, but Thomas wasn’t thinking about. He was just being Earl Thomas.

Thomas that I can remember never complained about the greatness that is Russell Wilson, unlike Doug Baldwin and Richard Sherman. Maybe Sherman and Baldwin’s complaining was inferred, but it was still clear. Thomas at the end just seemed to have an issue with not having his contract reworked.

There were a lot of times when I wasn’t even sure what Thomas was trying to say about a certain subject. Thomas has a way with words, but it is a roundabout, something odd, way. Kind of like when he says things like, “Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with rhythm so I have to listen to music.” I mean, it makes sense but it doesn’t at the same time. That is Thomas.

But no one can refute that between the seasons of 2010 and 2017 the Seahawks won 79 games. And that isn’t counting 2018 when Thomas played only four games before being carted off the field with an injury that would cost him the rest of the season. Seattle is not as successful for most of this decade without Thomas. He will be a Hall of Famer one day and made his bones in Seattle.

Sure, Thomas didn’t leave the field with grace while flipping off Pete Carroll. Few truly leave with grace. Do I think Thomas should have been so childish is the way he parted with Seattle? No. But he wasn’t mad at 12s; He was upset and not being paid what he thought his value was. Surely we can all empathize with that.

Should 12s boo Thomas in his return to Seattle as his new team, the Baltimore Ravens, play the Seahawks in week seven? No. 12s are better than that. The city of Seattle is better than that. And while Earl Thomas is not a perfect locker room teammate, he was a player on the Seattle teams that went to back-to-back Super Bowls and they wouldn’t have gotten there without Earl Thomas.