Lay Off the Damn Kickers

Being an asshole in post-game press conferences is to the NFL what alcoholism and baldness are to the rest of us: genetically inherited traits.  Jim Mora publicly admonished kicker Olindo Mare in the wake of the Seahawk loss, essentially pinning the entire loss on his kicker.  Today he rescinded that criticism (in a too-little-too-late gesture) and Tom Jackson piled on by raving about the lack of work kickers put in during the week.  You know what?  Shut up.  Everybody.  If organizations don't need kickers to kick, let one of the other neanderthals do the work.  Until that happens, they're part of your team and part of the game.  And often they'll have a more direct impact on the outcomes of...