Amazing how Jim Mora can spin a happy birthday to yet another parting shot for the team who made him the first one and done coach in Seahawks history; after waiting patiently for two seasons to take his dream job.
Sorry Mora, I can safely assume most 12th Men (and women) prefer Carroll, yes, your firing was mishandled, but you have 12 million reasons and an analysts job to turn that frown upside down.
After Hasselbeck tweeted John Carlson a happy birthday, Adam Schefter promptly fired back with:
“My sleeper last year– and my team went to sleep early”
Hasselbecks response, hardly unreasonable with the porous product the offense spewed out:
“I expect he’ll be running routes instead of pass blocking this year.”
Well, Mr. Jim. L Bitter didn’t like the shot at how he and his coaching staff decided to run our putrid, low scoring offense.
“he ran routes last year,51 catches/7 TD’s. Only blocked 2 keep QB from getting killed. The grass is always greener…”
Well, for an 11 week stretch, he had one TD.
Two of those seven TD’s came in the season opener against St. Louis.
By the time he had four consecutive one TD games to finish out the year, the team was losing those games on average by 31-10.
It’s also worth noting that Mora has deleted the previously mentioned tweet.
Hasselbecks reply:
“I know. Just meant he is our new slot guy now that we signed Chris Baker as our new Daniel Graham TE.”
Now maybe because Mora regrets the decision to enter into Twitter combat, (maybe like he regrets taking the Seattle job and talking the team up to be a contender?), he sent out a prolonged tweet:
“Wow, totally misinterpered! I’m a huge #8 fan and say so often. Just pointing out that Carlson had good # considering (con’t) we had to keep him in because of Protection issues. Would love to see him catch 80 balls, I love the kid. No bitterness (con’t) Way over that, just see my draft day comments. Been a hawk fan since day 1, those feelings still in my heart! Hope they roll!”
This all seems reasonable, but that still doesn’t change the questions most of the 12th Man have about how he ran the team last season.
Keeping Julius Jones in over Justin Forsett when it was clearly obvious was a massive blunder done out of pure stubbornness.
Sure, they had blocking issues, but why not do what Carroll is going to do and utilize Carlson as a receiver while plugging someone else in to “keep QB from getting killed”?
Having the team quit on you (thankfully in hindsight because it meant we were able to get Russell Okung), shows just how much they believed in what you were preaching.
As far as his draft day comments, it was clearly obvious at first glance we hit it big with our draft picks, everything fell nicely and we got a pair of good running backs on the cheap. Your job as an analyst is to be unbiased regardless, and I think Mora gets paid enough by Paul Allen and NFL Network to put on a happy face even though we know your still pissed off about losing your dream job to a naughty uncle.
It’s ok to be bitter, hey, I can’t help but get ticked off from time to time about being runner up for a shot at CBS last summer, s^&! happens.
I don’t have 12 million reasons to get over it though.
Original Story:
http://12thmanrising.com/2010/05/13/j...
