Comments on: Mora: Mare’s missed kicks not acceptable

By: TruBlu

TruBlu — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:10:59 +0000

Anything can happen, I will still be watching and rooting for the hawks. I’m just nervious it’s going to get out of control.

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By: Dukeshire

Dukeshire — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:32:10 +0000

Well, the good news is that you’ve just freed your Sunday up to do whatever it is defeatists do. Seriously though, Indy has a great offense that is also playing great, right now, but they’re not unbeatable. No one is. There is a reason they play the games and I can guarantee you, win lose or draw, the Seahawks won’t be going into Indy scared. Watching the game, we don’t need to be either. This game is great opportunity.

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By: TruBlu

TruBlu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:34:48 +0000

Why do I have visions of Dallas Clark trucking over our secondary mutiple times for an NFL record for TE’s with Manning easily tossing him the ball. This game coming up scares the hell out of me, obviously it gonna be a loss, Hass out, Eastern Time Zone, ridiculous play calling, 3 and outs, defense hanging in for a minute, but then just can’t take it any more. This game could make the Hawks look like more of a joke than what most of people around the league think right now. God I hope I’m wrong. This one’s going to be ugly, st8 up.

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By: hambone08

hambone08 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:59:41 +0000

If Mare makes 4-5 going into our last drive, that completely changes the complexion of that drive. I’d rather have Mare attempt a 6th FG to tie the game and go into OT rather than being forced to score a TD with an offense that obviously didn’t get the ball in the endzone enough, hence the 5 FG attempts. The mistakes and miscues were spread across the board Sunday – on offense, defense, special teams and from the coaches down to the players. If we want to even consider the playoffs, we need some healthy bodies and better, more sound fundamentals. Obviously, we can’t change the injuries but we can take better care of the ball and put an end to sloppy football. Wake up guys or else the season will quickly slip away, especially given our second half schedule.

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By: TruBlu

TruBlu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:05:48 +0000

Oh yeah, six f ckin’ feild goal attempts, I thought Holgram left us?

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By: TruBlu

TruBlu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:04:19 +0000

The four things that pissed me off the most,
1. Senaca throwing to Carlson when Carlson was ready to light the defender up so Senaca could of got at least fifteen, but threw it at Carlson’s back, why does it seem Senaca would rather throw than run, why, just run.
2. That stupid reverse to Branch, seriously.
3. Senaca’s pick 6, throw it away
4. Those f ckin’ glow in the dark jerseys, please don’t ever wear those again, i thought those were sopposed to be an april fools joke.

There were other things that obviously got to me, but these four are the ones that stick out in my mind the most.

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By: Dukeshire

Dukeshire — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:57:33 +0000

Personally, I don’t think it Mora vs Mare. At least for me. It’s all about Mora calling him out in the press rather than doing it behind closed doors, only. Because I’m sure they had or would of had a meeting regardless. Those kicks were huge, make no mistake. But the fact that Mora’s emotion seemed to get the better of him is what was at issue.

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By: freedom_X

freedom_X — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:08:11 +0000

One mistake I made – I thought Mare had missed an FG in SF, but he didn’t.

At any rate, we’ll see if Mora just put his foot in his mouth. As I wrote, if Mare has been working hard and kicking well in practice, it’s likely this will backfire in Mora’s face. Or Mora has a pathological disdain for kickers.

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By: freedom_X

freedom_X — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:03:21 +0000

OTOH, if Mare makes one of those two missed, “easy” FG’s, and everything else played out the same, Seattle wouldn’t have had to score a TD to tie at the end. They could have tied with another FG. Chicago has to play quite a different defense, less bend-but-don’t-break.

And to be honest – if it came down to a FG to go to OT, and Mare misses – I am guessing many of the people defending Mare would be livid with him, even though he would actually have had a higher FG% in this scenario than what he actually did finish with! (5/7 made instead of 4/6!)

The averages include all the bad snaps, bad weather, and terrible kickers. Are other kickers only making 71% of the FG’s with ideal conditions? I haven’t broken down Mare’s kicks but I think he’s had good conditions on all of his attempts this year, unless there’s something subtle like laces not lined up, etc. Also Mare’s had 2 home games to kick in.

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By: BobbyK

BobbyK — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:25:13 +0000

There have been 177 FGs attempted in the NFL this season.

Of that number, 144 FGs have been successful.

This means that just over 81% of all kicks have been good.

If Mare would have made 4-5 FGs yesterday, he would have been over the NFL average at 83% and we still would have lost (yet he still would have gotten blamed by our moron of a head coach). As it is, he made 67% and we lost. Either way, we lose.

If Mora wants a kicker who is going to make every kick, well, he had better keep looking. Last I looked, every kicker in the history of the NFL has missed some kicks (including kicks that should have been made).

If you want to blame a starter (and not 2nd/3rd stringers), lets blame TJ for the fumble. Lets pretend that a few of his catches never happened (or that Mare actually made 4 FGs yesterday). It’s not TJs fault. It’s not Mare’s fault. It’s a combined effort.

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