RENTON — The lasting image — or, at least, the last image — of Earl Thomas in a Seahawks uniform was his middle-finger gesture toward Pete Carroll.
More than a year later, as Thomas prepares to make his return to Seattle on Sunday in Baltimore Ravens colors, Carroll said he has no hard feelings toward the former All-Pro safety.
“Obviously he was upset,” Carroll said Wednesday, when asked about Thomas’ gesture as Thomas was being carted off the field with a broken tibia in Arizona on Sept. 30, 2018.
“But,” the Seahawks coach added, “my heart’s pretty big, pretty wide open to these guys from the time we spend together and all the stuff that we do.