The Seahawks could really have used Earl Thomas this week.
They’re facing the sort of dangerous and multifaceted quarterback in Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson for which Thomas’s instincts, experience and speed at free safety would have been invaluable.
Of course, Thomas will instead be on the other side of the field, making his return to CenturyLink Field on Sunday as a Raven. And that fraught circumstance has brought pouring forth all sorts of emotions and questions, as has been the case whenever the Seahawks are confronted in any fashion by one of their recently departed icons.
Pete Carroll answered one such question immediately, and it was totally and predictably in character.