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There's a belief in some league circles that Jim Mora (the son) has an evil twin.  (Of course, there's also an even stronger belief that the elder Mora has an evil twin, too.)  If that's the case, the younger Mora's evil twin made a cameo appearance on ESPN Radio earlier today with Doug Gottlieb.

We'd heard about the segment from a reader, and we'd been trying to track down the audio. 

The folks at The Big Lead have obliged.

Mora, as you'll hear, didn't like being asked about Mike Vick's stunning improvement.  Gottlieb asked Mora, "Does it bum you out at all thought that he wasn't that bought in to be what it took to be a great quarterback when you coached him in Atlanta?"  (Yes, those are the specific words Gottlieb uttered.)

I've met Jim, and I like Jim.  But he probably was too hard on Gottlieb, even though Gottlieb asked for it a little bit by at one point suggesting that Mora "might still be the coach of the Falcons" if Vick listened to coaching and committed himself to preparation earlier in his career.  (Mora previously has sung Vick's praises when it comes to preparation.)

By the time the the topic finally changed to Donovan McNabb's return to Philly, Mora had enough.  Asked a clumsy question by Gottlieb about how Philly fans should feel about McNabb's return, Mora went off.

"I don't know, how do you feel?" Mora said.  "Is this your first interview?  Jesus Christ, what kind of questions are these?  How should they feel?  I don't know how people should feel."

The interview wrapped up not long after that, and when it wrapped up, Mora said to Gottlieb, "You are a real joy, thanks."

Gottlieb responded by saying, "That has never happened before," in a manner that strangely reminded us of a certain news anchor who once famously told us, "That is not the right video."

Green Bay Packers safety Nick Collins(notes) was not happy on Monday night as he entered the tunnel to the locker room. Part of it was that his team had just lost 20-17 to the Chicago Bears.

The other reason is an incident that the NFL is now investigating. It involved a confrontation between Collins and a fan in the stands who was shouting racial epithets, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

"According to a source familiar with the incident, the fan used a racial slur and spit at Collins, hitting him in the face as he stood in the tunnel," the paper wrote. Collins, who had only paused to lob his gloves to a Packers fan, kept on going but then came back out and threw his mouthpiece at the misbehaving fan.

So now the NFL is investigating. As for Packers coach Mike McCarthy? "I understand Nick's story as far as what happened and what our security people that were there," he told the paper, "and I support Nick 100%."