Jim Mora, What Are You Talking About?

Mora's post-game comments made no sense

Seahawks head coach Jim Mora after yesterday's 34-7 loss to Houston: “We're going to take a microscope and look at everything.”

Huh?

Let's leave aside the fact that looking "at everything" is an utterly insane way to manage an organization. Say you really were going to try it. Is a microscope really the best tool?

Mora's Seahawks are a disaster, and he seems to have no idea why. "We practiced well, we were ready to go, we came out and we got off to a horrible start," he told reporters after the game.

Actually, Mora did single out one possible scapegoat, center Chris Spencer, who is playing with a cast on his right hand, forcing him to snap with his non-dominant left. Spencer caused three muffed exchanges in the game.

"I’m not quite sure why he still has a cast on his hand--but he does," said Mora (video).

You don't know why your starting center has a cast on his hand? Doesn't that seem like important information?

"We're going to find out who deserves to be part of the process going forward," Mora said.

Mora himself is probably not among that group.

"I can't see Jim Mora escaping such an embarrassing loss," writes John Morgan of Field Gulls. "It was always unlikely Mora would stay.... [Mora] has not earned much respect in his short time here. Fiery is fine. I see desperation. The look of a man that thinks he can yell his way out of failure."

"Mora won't fool me anymore," writes the Seattlepi.com's Jim Moore. "I can already hear him after the Seahawks beat Tampa Bay next Sunday. He'll be talking about positive steps that were taken against the Buccaneers--never mind that Tampa Bay is 1-12."

"Even if the Seahawks are playing hard, they're not competing with purpose." writes the Times' Jerry Brewer. "They have neither grasped nor fully embraced the new offensive and defensive schemes. The coach and his staff must accept some blame for that."

"The Seahawks have been even less competitive in 10 a.m. games than usual this season, getting blasted by an aggregate score of 168-77," writes Johnny Peel of Dave Krieg's Strike Beard. "That falls squarely upon the head coach, who has consistently failed to prepare this team to compete on the road."

The Seahawks have three games left: home vs. 1-12 Tampa Bay, at Green Bay, and home vs. Tennessee.