I can’t blame him on the one hand. Coach Mora that is. His team is now 5-9, fourteen games into year one of the “Mora Era” in Seattle. They have lost to good teams, but they’ve increasingly lost to poor teams, too, a trend perhaps hitting its’ nadir Sunday with a home loss to a 1 win Tampa Bay team. What was disappointing, as shown in the blog link below, was that Mora took every out he could for the abysmal play of a team he looks very much to be losing as the season dribbles to an end. Mora has gone from a position insisting that the team is thinking playoffs to now saying the team had a chance until Sunday’s loss to double the number of wins from last season. It took a row of articulated Metro busses and neat lines formed and waiting for a turn at being tossed under the bus. The head man seemed to be passing the buck to injuries, and a 4 win team last year; even referring to rebuilding after having taken reporters to task before the season for similar thinking. The post linked below also very insightfully points out that a “true leader” such as Matt Hasselbeck, asks for no cover, and accepts no quarter. Seeking no one to blame but himself, Hasselbeck said:
"I just feel like I let a lot of people down today," he said. "It's my fault. It's on me and I'll improve." Not one word about being pounded like a cheap flank steak game after game. Not one word about having a better completion percentage than last year. No, this leader simply says, ‘It’s on me, and I’ll get better’. Read the article for more.
The SunBreak | Sports | Jim Mora Tries to Save His Job with Revisionist History
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