Excuse my french, but - in case putting two and two together is too much math for you - what I am saying is that the Seattle Seahawks fucked Earl Thomas. The explicit gesture he held up towards the sideline he's spent so much time roaming as a transcendent talent on the dominant defense of a Super Bowl champion/contender? A fitting response given how he was treated by the franchise that refused to do right by him when they were quite obviously headed in the wrong direction. Unprofessional? Perhaps, but Pete Carroll and Co. basically spent the entire summer flipping off Earl Thomas with how infantile they were in dragging their feet when it came to trading a star player they had no intentions of paying past what was sure to be a complete waste of a season. ​Now, some might not see it that way, as a shockingly large percentage of fans tend to side with management instead of those who put their physical and mental well-being on the line for their entertainment, as well as non-guaranteed paychecks that pale in comparison to the profits collected by NFL organizations. However, what can't be denied is that all Earl Thomas did by finally showing up and honoring his contract was cost himself millions upon millions of the future financial security that the franchise he gave his body to refused to give him. Of course, I'm not naive enough to think that even the worst case scenario playing itself out in front of a sports' world that's stuck in it's own ways is enough to sway everyone's opinion on Le'Veon Bell's holdout, but I'll be damned if it shouldn't be. For the injury suffered by a 29 year old stud safety whose days in which to be compensated as such were already numbered was absolutely not a case of "bad timing" as much as it was a case of stubbornness, selfishness, and stupidity by a bad team that cost themselves a good asset by wasting the work of a star player while hopelessly waiting for a great one to be offered to them. I understand that the NFL is a cutthroat business, but that's not a good excuse, as running the risk of playing Earl Thomas onto the IR ahead of free agency was undeniably bad for business...
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