Is whether or not these people who defend Mora, or claim that it was all organizational deficiency, actually believe that. It almost makes me question whether some of Mora’s HC decisions were really as blatantly self-destructive as I remember. Why does no one just come out and say “Mora was generally a dip-shit who couldn’t play the part”?

or leiweke? or holmgren? i’m not sure what sando is blaming for the seahawks failure. if he’s laying blame and not just trying to be polite then he has to dump a heaping helping on mora instead of kissing his ass because his “leadership” consisted of throwing his players under the bus.

I don’t think the statement is off.

He talked about the dysfunction before, and inflated it. I think you guys are taking this simply as a further extension of that, and that’s fine. And I know Sando’s been hard on the Hawks in his new digs.

But even if the team didn’t know what kind of org structure it was moving to when they let him go, and even if some things are lip service and they really were pursuing Carroll no matter what the structure would look like, I think Mora’s firing really was part of a larger movement to a new chapter. A new approach, new management. A clean break from the past, eliminating awkward political dynamics by forcing the next GM to retain the coach.

Mora could have saved his job with more wins, in the end. But it’s clear to me the judgment wasn’t just about wins, but coaching, leadership and composure. The same issues we had with him. Despite it maybe feeling like he’d lost the team at the end and we only won 5 games, if Leiweke and Allen felt better about the direction the team was headed in, structure and new management prospects and everything, Mora could have been retained, in spite of himself.

So yeah, I don’t think he was fired because they were convinced he was the wrong choice, after one year. I think he was fired because he sure wasn’t proving himself to be a part of the solution, and as an impediment to the solution, he just had to go.

Sando might be using it to take another jab at the team, but I don’t think it’s off the mark.