The CRAZIEST Coaching Controversy in New Orleans Saints HISTORY | 1996 Saints

[@blackoutchris8796]

Always loved Jim Mora. He always had the best press conferences. Of course most people remember him when he was with the Colts. PLAYOFFS! PLAYOFFS!

[@pullt]

Diddly Poo!!

[@smoothALOE]

@@pullt yeah, that one is actually my favorite of his after-game rants. I think he quit the day after, haha!

[@tygrkhat4087]

Jim Mora was the anti-Belichick. He'd let you know exactly what he was thinking, as opposed to the Hoodie, who basically mumbles through every after game presser.

[@jpmnky]

His diddly poo interview was always funnier than his playoffs outburst.

[@smoothALOE]

@@jpmnky I completely agree.

[@davidcobb2693]

Hall Of Fame CB Willie Brown coached Raiders DB's almost immediately after playing his last game in 1978 and he continued coaching Raiders DB's until 1988.

[@jamesage24]

I wish politicians would speak as clearly & honestly as Jim Mora!

[@charismatic9904]

Trump does.

[@jamesage24]

@@charismatic9904 Trump wasn't a politician. 😎

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

I'm back in AA since I didn't have to drink the spike.

[@gluserty]

Oh, sorry Lawrence; I've been worried about you, you know, and that spike. It's easy to get carried away with the spike and lose perspective, so I'm glad you're back in recovery.

[@BrendonChase2012]

I really want to watch the "Diddley Poo" game, but sadly it doesn't seem to be on KZbin. Diddley Poo

[@brianoneill7186]

It sucked. It stunk. They got their ass totally kicked.

[@blakfloyd]

Which is worse than if you'd spiked your poo directly into the ground on every single play.

[@thatsmrtguy4935]

Imagine coaching for 30 years, being an administrator for another 10, spending approximately 10 as an executive and winning two Super Bowls and there being zero footage or pictures of you.

[@chadwickwhite6107]

I THOUGHT that the CRAZIEST coaching controversy in New Orleans Saints HISTORY was when Mike Ditka TRADED AWAY an ENTIRE DRAFT just to get Ricky Williams. ANYWAY the New Orleans Saints would be WAY BETTER OFF just SPIKING the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!!

[@exposethenwo6491]

The Bengals were stupid to reject the trade. The most incompetent team of the 90's.

[@mikewolverton7904]

If you think Ditka trading the farm to Washington was bad, look what the Redskins did with all those extra draft picks. Absolutely nothing!!!!

[@survivor5044]

The Saints would continue to be a mess when they hired Mike Ditka in 1997. He was a complete failure with a 15-33 record. 1996-99 was the most embarrassing in Saints history. I'm glad those times are long gone.

[@eugenedenbrook322]

That's really saying something, considering their abysmal history up to that point. But you're right, Da Coach took them down to new depths.

[@gluserty]

I thought the Saints had some moments in 1997-'98 (after a 2-7 start in '97, from that point and through the first 3 games of 1998, the Saints went 7-3). However, after that brief surge, the Ditka-led Saints went 6-23, with a 3-16 overall finish.

[@markbrian7179]

The New Jersey Nets had the same thing happen to them in 1985. Rollie Massimino agreed to be the head coach of the Nets and then thought better of it and stood them up at the podium when the Nets tried to introduce Him as head coach.

[@ericthomas917]

The Nets were a playoff team then. Coming off a year were the upset Dr J"s Sixers in the first round of the playoffs.

[@keithboyd9582]

Would love to see you do a video on short time starting QB for the Cowboys Quincy Carter.

[@tookmyjob]

Happened in 1999 with the Bears. They were about to hire Dave McGinnis but he declined when they were going to offer his assistants fewer years on their contracts

[@Rockhound6165]

Bears dodged a bullet with that one as McGinnis went on to coach the Cards and couldn't win more then 7 games in a season.

[@tookmyjob]

@@Rockhound6165 I always wondered how he would have fared in Chicago. Especially if they didn’t draft Cade McNown.

[@deathtowrestling2518]

DIDDLY POO

[@bigfenix8272]

It's weird. I cant find ANYTHING on Chet Franklin online. Not a single picture.

[@alexfurtado7254]

Bill Parcells press conferences were on par with Jim Mora, but Mora had the more quotable moments. Ditka too.

[@aaronholcomb237]

Reporter: Why are you in such a bad mood? Ditka: What do you care? If you were 2-7 you'd be in a bad mood, too. Not very much fun, is it?

[@stevenbauer4799]

rick venturi... the ultimate fill in coach. The ultimate one win coach who won one game at each coaching spot. Filled in for saints after mora in '96. filled in for colts after macpherson in '91. Also coached northwestern '78-'80. 52 games coached. 19 nfl, 2-17. .105 win %. 33 at nw. 1-31-1. 0 big 10 wins. 3-49-1 overall. And mora wasn't a bad coach. He made saints a playoff team and got saints to playoffs for the first time in '87. He also took usfl stars to two titles too. Things just got stale in n o and the lack of a qb took him down. He won with hebert and fourcade as qb's there. And jim everett was just a shell of himself by the time he got to n o. And i remember mora calling out fans in n o one time for openly cheering when fourcade got knocked out of a game after a hit. Mora just got railroaded out of indy thanks to peyton because he clashed with peyton's soft ego. Dungy basically won the s b with the team mora had put together. 'PLAYOFFS, PLAYOFFS?...'

[@aaronholcomb237]

Venturi was replaced by Dennis Green at Northwestern.

[@keithboyd9582]

"PLAYOFFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" That still cracks me up!!!!

[@jtdavis62]

This was bad, but things got infinitely worse when Mike Ditka was hired the following year.

[@control_the_pet_population]

@OneHairyGuy Didn't they give up all the picks for Ricky Williams?

[@84sp84]

@@control_the_pet_population exactly. And seeing Ditka & Williams in that wedding pose was surreal to say the least.

[@stepheng8061]

OneHairyGuy Ricky Williams got so high he forgot he couldn't smoke weed He's a legend

[@byggmeaty2310]

@@control_the_pet_population All that year and plus 2 from the next season

[@control_the_pet_population]

@OneHairyGuy I think he's actually a studio analyst... I was traveling for work in 2019 (or maybe 2018) and saw him on a TV in a bar in Dallas... think he works for whatever the University of Texas calls their cable network... one of the talking heads during the halftime report... He's probably getting nicely toasted during the 1st half... clambaking out in his Range Rover... but it was good to see he got over his social anxiety and actually landed a TV gig. I haven't been back to Texas since, so no idea if he's still working there this season.

[@mdf3530]

The same thing happened to the Bears. See Dave McGinnis.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Jim Mora is an American (football) treasure.

[@levikatriel]

A similar thing happened to a player with the Browns; namely, Dale Turner in the 1988 offseason. Official Jaguar Gator 9 made a video about it.

[@U2BEMatchmaker]

That's really something.

[@marcus813]

No wonder those Saints won only once after Jim E. Mora jumped ship. That was quite a dysfunctional organization at the time.

[@devious187]

Mora knows how to handle a press conference, doesn't he? This was epic, but who can ever forget "Playoffs? Playoffs? We're just trying to win a game!" The man, the myth, the legend: Jim Mora.

[@christopherengel7436]

It's a shame Jim Mora never told you what he was really thinking as he sugar coated his opinions so as not to hurt feelings. Weird fact about this Saints team is 3 of 4 starting defensive backs were ex-Eagles starters in Eric Allen, Mark McMillian, & Greg Jackson.

[@karlcooper8460]

Remember Dalton Hilliard? I would like to see a video on him.

[@dangeiger9796]

That was the second greatest press conference Jim Mora ever had

[@1973169]

Gotta love Jim Mora. Said exactly what he was thinking. Don't see that anymore. Everyone is too sensitive.

[@walker1984]

His press conferences were awesome

[@dwlopez57]

1977 had to be the worst. The first team ever to lose to the Buccaneers who had lost like 26 straight games.

[@aaronholcomb237]

Then 3 seasons later they went 1-15.

[@kevinlawrence8580]

Mora is the one who brought the Saints to respectability.

[@byggmeaty2310]

Facts!!!!!

[@kevinlawrence8580]

@@byggmeaty2310 Mora was the first coach to lead the Saints to a winning season and into the playoffs. The team had a 12-3 record in 1987.

[@kevinlawrence8580]

@@byggmeaty2310 During Mora's tenure the Saints made the playoffs four times. The Saints won the western division in 1991.

[@kevinlawrence8580]

@@byggmeaty2310 He led the Saints to it's first winning record in 1987. The went 12-3.

[@TempleofAmon666]

Then we got mike ditka

[@karlcooper8460]

This sounds so Lionesque.(like the Lions).

[@billlyb23]

I was at the one win Venturi had in 1996 at the meadowlands - it was one of the worst games I have ever watched

[@derangedhippo]

God dammit, Everytime I log into KZbin and see how offical jaguargator 9 has posted a new video, I get giddy w excitment. Every fucking video this guy posts is top notch and I get pissed off with how happy I get Everytime I see a new upload knowing that the next 12 minutes of my life is going to be flowing with intense football knowledge that my brain so desperately desires.

[@stepheng8061]

Jim mora is my spirit animal

[@pullt]

How is this the CRAZIEST coaching controversy in Saints history when Bountygate exists?

[@adampender2482]

Liberal media overlook that bc you know katrina

[@pullt]

@@adampender2482 Not sure how left/right media tendencies play a role here, but I'd imagine the stereotype of the liberal media boogyman would be less tolerant of incentized on field violence than a stereotypical righty who shouts that "they" are cancelling Christmas and turning football into a sport for pussies....

[@shoneythomas9215]

They same way they don’t talk about the pats 5 Super Bowl wins that made Brady the goat from spygate I’m a saints fan why bill didnt get suspended like they did coach Payton

[@pullt]

@@shoneythomas9215 6*

[@shoneythomas9215]

@@pullt was six against the falcons right or wrong i can’t remember but either way your right

[@chrisrobinson8339]

9 seasons with the Saints Jim had a (.569) win percentage. He should've been fired five seasons ago. 5:55

[@patrickthomas8890]

Saints couldn’t win a game before Mora, so above .500 was an incredible job. Before Mora the Saints were a joke and he made them respectable…with great defense including Rickey Jackson, Pat Swilling, and Vaughn Johnson.

[@kerryblanchard9425]

Before Mora, the Saints had gone 19 straight seasons without a winning record, coming closest with 8-8 marks in 1979 and 1983. Total record for those 19 seasons and 9 coaches: 83 wins, 187 loses, 5 ties, for a win percentage of .311. They were so awful that their overall franchise record still hasn't recovered, although they're now only 44 games away from .500 in total franchise history. Mora resigned because he didn't see a way out of the mess the franchise devolved into once the early 90's defensive core, among many others, left New Orleans mostly for $$$$$. And that's not a shot at the players, that's a shot at a front office that mostly struck out on finding their replacements.

[@teto85]

I would have turned down the job at that time myself.

[@CTubeMan]

Fun fact: Rick Venturi had stints as interim coach of the Colts and Saints. He won one game in each stint. Both were at Giants Stadium. As for Jim Mora, I’d say he’s the king of the post-game press conference. I think he only has one competitor to the throne. JG9 Nation, who would you consider a challenger to the throne?

[@targettoad691]

Buddy Ryan & the Saints next coach, Mike Ditka

[@mrmoose6619]

Only one man comes to mind... and he knows that the Bears are who he thought they were.

[@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly]

@@mrmoose6619 Dennis Green!

[@stevenbauer4799]

venturi was the ultimate one win man. Won only one game at nw in three seasons there as coach too.

[@eugenedenbrook322]

John McKay? Also, honourable mention for the Tuna. Great quotes.

[@jeffpearljam1976]

They went low on Everett.

[@jeffpearljam1976]

Venturi was also interterm coach in 2012. Who Dat?!

[@chriswahl4139]

Bears had it happen in 1999 with Dave McGinnis announced as coach but negotiations broke down and after his Cardinals run a few years later they didn't miss out on much

[@scottaznavourian3720]

'We sucked. We didn't do Didley poo' 2nd best conference behind PLAYOFFS?

[@jdoolsiu]

You could do the same for the Bears and Dave McGinnis in 1998

[@jdoolsiu]

Sorry, after the 98 season. Technically 99

[@LegionOfShrooms]

Gosh I remember being a kid and the saints always were crap. I thought I’ll never see this team with a winning record. Took them awhile billy joe hobert🤣🤣🤣

[@nasetvideos]

As always, great start to my day with another wonderful job telling a story I never remember or had heard of from that year. Wonderful context and fact-finding on your end--Really interesting

[@mr.willie9578]

That dude wouldn’t want to be part of this hot mess 😂

[@NillyNilly546]

Honestly, respect to Frank for stepping down on the offer, he wanted to see the team succeed and knew it wouldn't if the assistants weren't thrilled with him.

[@scottconner7930]

25 Years Ago

[@joshtato1428]

The ain't

[@paule.fields1220]

Wow I didn't know the Saints had a chance to have they first Black Head coach yea same old Saints.

[@eugenedenbrook322]

But, really, their only fault here was that they were the Saints, and therefore sucked.