Emotion Defeats Analysis After Hawks Loss to Bears

UPDATE: Gore out three weeks for Niners.

Immediately following the Seattle Seahawks loss Sunday against the Chicago Bears, head coach Jim Mora stepped to the microphone at the press conference and excoriated place kicker Olindo Mare so fully that “Pardon the Interruption” made the outburst one of the top sports topics of the day. Locally, Seattle Times staff reporter Danny O’Neill published a story under the premise that coach Mora may cut Mare because of his two missed field goals Sunday. The only reason the Mare story has any “legs” at all is because of the media. Meanwhile, legitimate points of consternation from Sunday’s game fly under the radar.

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