Mookie Will Be So Happy!!! (UPDATE: I Hope He Is A Pete Carroll Fan!)

Jay Glazer has tweeted the news that Mookie has long waited for.

While those things that Jay Glazer mentions are true and may have inhibited his abilities as a play-caller, on multiple occasions Jim Mora, Jr. failed to lead his team when they needed a leader and he constantly threw his players under the bus yet always absolved himself of any blame whatsoever, something this is completely opposite to what Philly fans have endured ever since Andy Reid was hired by the Eagles.

My thoughts on this is that it is a good move for Seattle to get rid of someone whose system was not bought into by the team, perhaps in large part to the fact that he always blamed his players and never himself. You are never going to win over a locker room that way and while I think that some team will give Mora, Jr. one more chance as a head because of the injuries and Front Office turmoil he had during his one and only year in Seattle, unless he changes his leadership qualities, I see that playing out the exact same way it did for him in Seattle, injuries or not.

Update: It appears as if Mora's replacement might be none other than Pete Carroll! From Mort's Twitter account, "Pete Carroll is the guy Seahawks are targeting. It is expected to happen, according to sources. Just reported to ESPN 10 minutes ago."

Mora fired. Carroll likely the replacement and if ever there was a college coach whose past unsuccessful gigs in the pro league were mired by circumstance, it was Carroll. In his first job as a Jets coach, he had the team poised for a playoff run, but then Dan Marino did his Dan Marino thing, the Jets went on to lose the rest of their games, and Carroll was fired after that first year. His second coaching gig was the Patriots head coach, only he came after Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick, and while he did not do a completely awful job, he was no Parcells, and was thus fired after a few years and some playoff losses. Belichick's tenure has since made Carroll's stint in New England look like a Rich Kotite job, compared to Carroll's predecessor and his successor.

The main criticism of Mora was that he was not enough of a leader. If there is one thing about Carroll, he certainly brings a lot of RAH-RAH leadership to the team. We'll see if the report is right (and granted, how many teams had been reported to be close to a deal with Pete Carroll the past few years?), and if it is, well, there is certainly going to be a lot of change going on in Seattle. Will it be good change or will the team grow even worse? Only time will tell.