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January 11, 2010 at 9:32 AM

Jim Mora, Tim Ruskell and the former dysfunction of Seattle

Hugh Millen is a former Washington quarterback, college roommate of Jim Mora and now serves as a football analyst for 950 KJR and Q13. On Monday morning, Millen discussed a particularly potent text message that Jim Mora received from Tim Ruskell, Seattle's former president.

Specifically, Ruskell chafed at Mora's public endorsement of Mike Holmgren being hired to become Seahawks president. Mora voiced that support first in an e-mail to Seahawks CEO Tod Leiweke in the days before it was announced Seattle and Holmgren failed to reach an agreement for him to return to Seattle. Mora stated it publicly two days after that decision was announced when he said during a press conference, "It's no secret that I'm a Mike Holmgren fan, and I was an advocate of him coming back, to the point that I made my feelings known to the people that make those decisions. I'm probably as disappointed as anybody that he's decided to reject our offer and go onward."

Apparently, that didn't sit so well with the man who hired Mora to be Holmgren's replacement. According to Millen, Ruskell sent Mora a text message that sent a message that began, "Real classy ..." It continued to say, according to Millen, "Now I know I was 100 percent wrong about you and I paid for it dearly."

That's certainly an indication of the level of dysfunction that was occurring in and around the Seahawks over the previous six weeks where you had the president who resigned two-thirds of the way through the season texting the coach he hired to criticize the coach's support of the man whose staff he served on for two years before becoming head coach.

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It says more than the dysfunction of the last four weeks, but the dysfunction of the relationship between Holmgren and Ruskell for the last few... Posted on January 11, 2010 at 10:16 AM by 1990Coug. Jump to comment

gmantun, wow, don't you think that's a tad overboard? sure, as a fan you can criticize the team and the front office hullabaloo, but... Posted on January 11, 2010 at 10:44 AM by airbags. Jump to comment

Uh, idiot. You had RESIGNED! He was endorsing a guy to replace you because you were no longer employed. Good lord, it's a good thing both... Posted on January 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM by basebliman. Jump to comment

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