The Scale of Falconliness: Jim Mora, Jr.

I gave him a 4. He did some good things, but pretty much laid the groundwork for the 07 disaster, which laid the groundwork for the past two seasons and the new regime. He had a couple good seasons, but I was at a Bears-Falcons game at Soldier Field in 05 when he got kicked out of the game. Decent coach overall, but a lasting source of embarrassment.

Honestly, I wasn’t following the team closely until his last season. I was a fan before then, but not an addict. I must say, I remember liking him quite a bit, and being surprised when he was let go. From all the stories I hear, though, jaded as they are, they have knocked my impression of him down quite a bit.

I am most likely going to get crucified but I gave JR a 10. This guy was a solid coach. Took us to the NFC championship game his first year and the other 2 seasons you can blame on vick’s immaturity and failing to progress as a passer. He didn’t quit on us, granted the WSU thing was just dumb, but at that point he was kinda on his way out already. He made a pro bowler outta deangelo with the help of ed donatel and greg knapp is a solid o-cordinator. greg knapp called the game when schaub nearly brought us back against the patriots. I honestly think Jim Mora could still be our coach had he lasted one more season, Vick would have been gone with the dog fighting ordeal and I bet we wouldn’t have traded schaub then. Don’t get me wrong, I love matty ice as our guy but schaub as of now is further developed and would have been in his 4th year in knapps system. Having said all of that, I am very thankful in TD and Smitty and our entire organizations direction. I recall when we got rid of dan reeves I really wanted Jimmy mora jr to be our coach. He didn’t get a fair chance in Seattle. Sorry for the rant!

Very Unfalconly to say you want to coach for another team (a college team at that) while employed by the Falcons. But now that I think about it, I could revise it to a 2 after thinking about that slimeball Petrino!

ps…If there was a Falcon Purgatory, Mora could go there, We reserve the deep hot pits of Falcon Hell for the likes of Petrino and MeAngelo.

What exactly is Falconly?
Is it who we have been in 45 seasons?
What we are trying to become?
Or What we would like our Falcons to be?
If you ask people in generally it’s likely that the first would be chosen.
The Falcons have been historically known as a win-inept team with some recent milestone sucess.
Jim Mora falls right in the middle of that chance after Dan Reeves Success, and what Mike Smith has done. He managed to take a 4-12 team and make themn 11-5 in 2004, still regardless not bad, and Mora seems to be good for something. But also he wasn’t good at making adjustments. Mora was just a spirited coached that couldn’t back it up with consistent success, just as all of our precessors. Bad front office, bad coaching, or players that weren’t smart enough to execute. Only recently Arthur Blank seems to have finally found that formula for success such as when he founded home depot and we’ve reached a new mile stone of consecutive winning seasons and a team that seems well built with a promising future, but isn’t that how we’ve always been?
Mora, quite frankly may actually be very Falconly. It’s just that now, we are finally becoming of a different image…so we think, and shall see.

In 2004, the NFC was god awful. And the last year that it was that bad.
It was clearly Falcons and Eagles by a wide margin as the elite, with the Packers, Vikings, Rams and Seahawks in the middle, and the other 10 teams with a 5 or less wins record. At the end of the season a lot of good teams tend to tank, and bad teams tend to shine when injured players return such as the bucs, saints, and panthers were trying to do in the latter part of the season.