It was on this month, ten years ago that the Seattle Seahawks officially named Jim Mora as their new head coach. Mora was handpicked to replace the retiring Mike Holmgren, who went out with an equal parts awful and unlucky 4-12 disaster of a season. If the Holmgren era had grown stale, Mora was supposed to be the fresh face who would lead the team back to playoff appearances and Super Bowl contention. After all, he led the Atlanta Falcons to within a game of the Super Bowl in 2004!
“We have a guy that everybody likes and we’re united in the organization from top to bottom,” Former GM Tim Ruskell said at the time of Mora’s hiring.