I always look back at 2010 with an irrational fondness. A year earlier, the Seattle Seahawks were coached by Jim Mora and it started out fine. We knew the team wasn’t actually very good so most of us didn’t have Super Bowl aspirations. However, when the absolute blowout losses began, Mora seemed at a loss as to what to say. While losses mounted the press conferences turned very sour and difficult.
I was a rare defender of Jim that season, saying that I understood his frustrations even as the losses kept coming and he began to call out his players publicly.