I'm a firm believer that you need to give a coach a chance to build a team. But at some point there has to be a level of play where you conclude you have a PURE (previously undiscovered recruiting error) as a coach and should let him go.
Before the season, the Seahawks were talking playoffs. Obviously the absence of Walter Jones has hurt them. But this team has been terrible. They're 5-9 and just lost to a Tampa Bay team that hadn't scored a touchdown since November and might be the worst team in the league. Three of their five wins are against St Louis and Detroit. You could argue that the game against Jacksonville is the only time they've played well all year. Somehow when the team seems to underachieve every week and gets worse as the season goes on, you have to blame coaching.
I'd fire Mora. It's not all his fault, but it's hard to believe a good coach could get such a terrible effort out of this team.
Sunday, December 20
Poker update
It's not that I haven't been blogging, I actually haven't played much poker since my last post. With the holidays, evenings have been spent shopping, wrapping, packaging, lighting candles, etc. And then I had a major "non-playing" disappointment.
I played at Snoqualmie a couple of weeks ago and nearly tripled up by buy in. One of my best results of late. Basically had two big hands where I hit sets and got paid. One I erred by calling too much pre flop -- but I just didn't believe the guy -- but the other I played well calling down what was essentially a three barrel bluff on an all-club flop. Also had a simple hand where four people limp called my raise to 25 and a flopped top pair and took down the pot. I wish I could have more hands that were so easy.
We spent the weekend at Tulalip for my birthday so I could get a lot of poker in. Unfortunately it didn't work out well. Monica wanted to go shopping after dinner so I accompanied her and didn't get into a game until after 9 PM. It had been a long day and I just wasn't feeling it. Though it was a great table with really bad players. I also liked that their 3-5 game allows a $500 buy in which means more money on the table. Wound up winning a little bit almost all of it on one hand where a guy "donated" $300 with trips, no-kicker against my tips-ace kicker when his hand HAD to be no good on the turn.
Hope to get in a session this week, likely Friday if not before, before I head to Las Vegas next Monday.
I played at Snoqualmie a couple of weeks ago and nearly tripled up by buy in. One of my best results of late. Basically had two big hands where I hit sets and got paid. One I erred by calling too much pre flop -- but I just didn't believe the guy -- but the other I played well calling down what was essentially a three barrel bluff on an all-club flop. Also had a simple hand where four people limp called my raise to 25 and a flopped top pair and took down the pot. I wish I could have more hands that were so easy.
We spent the weekend at Tulalip for my birthday so I could get a lot of poker in. Unfortunately it didn't work out well. Monica wanted to go shopping after dinner so I accompanied her and didn't get into a game until after 9 PM. It had been a long day and I just wasn't feeling it. Though it was a great table with really bad players. I also liked that their 3-5 game allows a $500 buy in which means more money on the table. Wound up winning a little bit almost all of it on one hand where a guy "donated" $300 with trips, no-kicker against my tips-ace kicker when his hand HAD to be no good on the turn.
Hope to get in a session this week, likely Friday if not before, before I head to Las Vegas next Monday.
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