Earl Thomas injured. Tweets about retirement

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by -King-

Yes in terms of play and play style. But what does one have to do with the other in terms of retirement? Are you really saying that he shouldn't retire because what Berry went through was worse? ....uh...why?



When it comes to retirement I don't compare the two. I don't think any less of Patrick Willis or Calvin Johnson for retiring when they did and I won't think any less of Earl Thomas if he retires. What Berry did has no bearing at all on his decisions.

I'm saying he shouldn't be on social media yapping about retiring mid-game. And the optics of doing so mere hours after your nearest counterpart in the NFL - a person that came back from cancer - won a game for his team are just shitty. Trying to deny that there's an obvious point of comparison there is just being militantly obstinate.

Retire, don't retire - whatever. He's a zillionaire and football is hard, taxing work. He could retire because he just doesn't want to play anymore and he'd have some justification for it (though I'd still say that Berry is a hell of a lot more dedicated to the game if he did and have ample cause for doing so).

But don't get on social media during a damn game and make it all about you. That's all that was - attention whore bullshit. Wah - you're hurt. So are a couple dozen other guys that played this week and they aren't all on Twitter during a game talking about walking away.