Earl Thomas Reacts to "MOB" Defense & Seahawks Playoff Push

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Sports, Football

4.7 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Earl Thomas returns to the show, looking back on a whirlwind couple of months that saw him honored as a Seattle Seahawks top 50 player, raising the 12th Man flag alongside Kam Chancellor, and making another run as a Hall of Fame semifinalist. Earl shares his thoughts on the current Seahawks defense, the new "MOB" nickname, and which players he would draft to the Legion of Boom. Looking ahead, Thomas offers candid thoughts on the team's playoff push, the importance of resilience, and taking on a role a mentor and ambassador.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sea Hawkers podcast.
0:08.9	I'm Adam Emmer.
0:09.8	I'm joined today by my good buddy Clinton Bonner.
0:13.6	But it's not just us today, Clinton.
0:15.6	We've also got a special guest today.
0:18.5	Dare I say a lock for the Hall of Fame type guest.
0:22.3	And I'm fired up for it, Clayton. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. But, you know, it's me, it's you. We're always here. But guess who's not always here? This is the third appearance for the man and third time's a charm. But we're going to bring him right on. And we got Mr. Earl Thomas number 29 himself from the LOB back at the house, Earl.
0:40.7	How are you, bud? charm, but we're going to bring them right on. We got Mr. Earl Thomas number 29 himself from the
0:38.9	L-O-B back at the house, Earl. How are you, bud? I'm doing really good. I'm so happy. I've been
0:44.9	on the show in a while, so I know we got some good chase to knock out today. We absolutely do.
0:51.2	We are fired up to have you back on. Again, we met at the casino at the draft party. That was a ton of fun. You were gracious enough to sit down with us. You came back on preseason. And we'll talk a little bit about that, Earl, because you had a preseason take that we, of course, got to get to. You know that. But you also have been up to a lot since we last chatted as well and just looking at
1:12.1	it you were at the the 50th anniversary game being honored as a top 50 seahawk versus the
1:17.3	versus the Tampa game good game but we took the L on that one but then you came back and you
1:22.1	you got to raise the 12th man flag with bam bam chancellor up on that perch for the Texans game.
1:28.3	Then I think you're off to Australia,
1:30.3	where you got to meet one of our members of our flock with Wither Fork.
1:33.3	And then you made it to your second semifinals for the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
1:38.3	along with the 26 other modern semifinalists.
1:42.3	And man, so to say you've been busy this year is an understate.
1:46.7	So how has this whole whirlwind been for you? And I guess let's start with Adam. Let's start with
1:51.6	the Hall of Fame process because Earl, you know, we know, Adam knows, I know, all the flockers know
1:57.1	that you are headed to Canton at some point. We want that some point to be very, very soon.
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