Olindo Mare

The temptation is to blame Seattle’s 25-19 loss to Chicago on kicker Olindo Mare, but let’s be very clear: There was plenty of blame to go around. Yes, Olindo Mare missed two makeable field goals. But should he really have had to kick six field goals? The way it worked out, he would have needed to hit all six just for a chance to hit a seventh to win it or at least have the game go to overtime. That’s a lot to ask of any kicker. Mare made...  

to cut him after two missed field goals is stupid considering others players played equally bad in all three games, and if they cut him I would like to see Travis fisher, Craig Terrill, Jordan Babineaux, Kelly Jennings, and Deion Branch gone with him  

It's no more appropriate for Maurice Jones-Drew to call out the game-planning in the Jacksonville Jaguars' 41-0 loss to the Seahawks, last Sunday, than it was for Seahawks coach Jim Mora to take a public stance against Seattle kicker Olindo Mare after Mare missed two field goals in the Seahawks' Week 3 loss to the Chicago Bears. If Mora had a specific problem he wanted to address publicly, maybe it should have been the offense...Please click...  

RENTON – Jim Mora had harsh words when asked about his kicker Sunday afternoon. But on Monday, Olindo Mare was still Mora’s kicker. Mare missed two field goals in the Seahawks’ six-point loss to the Bears, and asked about those misses after the game, Mora didn’t try to hide his disappointment.  

RENTON – To be honest, after Seahawks coach Jim Mora finished his postgame debriefing Sunday, a number of us in the media volleyed a question: Do you remember a coach around here skewering a player as specifically as Mora did placekicker Olindo Mare?

Mare’s two field goal misses (in six attempts) contributed to the 25-19 loss to Chicago. But so did a number of other failings by players and coaches.

 

Coach Jim Mora was asked if he still felt as strongly about kicker Olindo Mare's pair of missed field-goal attempts as he did after Sunday's game. "No, I don't," he said. "I'm glad you asked that question. No, I don't. I have very high, high expectations for Olindo and it's because of the work that he has done in this league. He has been an outstanding kicker and he has done a lot of great things for us. I think I let the emotion of the game...  

Jim Mora admits he's still learning in his second go-round as an NFL coach. The latest lesson came Monday. Already facing a two-game losing streak and the prospect of playing on the road this weekend against Peyton Manning and the undefeated Colts without injured quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, the Seahawks' head man recanted his blistering criticism of veteran Olindo Mare from a day before.  

Seattle Post IntelligencerSeahawks coach Jim Mora not happy with his kicker after the gameSeattle TimesBy Danny O'Neil Coach Jim Mora and kicker Olindo Mare could agree on one thing after Sunday's game. Well, actually they agreed on two things since that's ...Seahawks coach Jim Mora changes tune on kicker Olindo MareThe Canadian PressOlindo Mare: Mora: Mare's play is unacceptableRotoworld.comHasselbeck's status 'touch and go' for this...  

Jim Mora winced his way through Week Three, occasionally pausing to curse his field-goal kicker. Afterwards, he called out the same man, Olindo Mare, to pin the blame firmly at his door as the Seahawks floundered to 1-2, and losing 25-19 to Chicago. "We're not gonna fight our a** off and have a field-goal kicker go out and lose a game." Indeed this wasn't one of Mare's finer moments in a fourteen-year career. But was it necessary to call out a...