Mike Holmgren
Mike Holmgren
Michael George Holmgrenis a former American football coach and executive, most recently serving as president of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. Holmgren began his NFL career as a quarterbacks' coach and later as an offensive coordinator with the San Francisco 49ers, where they won Super Bowl XXIII and XXIV. He served as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1992 to 1998, appearing in two Super Bowls, and of the Seattle Seahawks from 1999 to...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 June 1948
CitySan Francisco, CA
Being the personal protector, blocker for Shaun Alexander and then look what Shaun has done.
Bobby has been so good to start this year.
The thing that bothers me as much as anything else was the penalties. You can't overcome those things.
As soon as they make some arrangements, he'll know and I'll know. We have to see. That's the first thing.
At the league level -- and I sit on the committees that talk about this stuff -- they want to do everything that they can for the safety of the player, ... In warm weather, we really talk about it a lot.
The tough thing in this league about playing the linebacker position is that as a rookie you are seeing many things for the first time and you are going against athletes that you didn't always play against when you were in college. The physical part of it is tough, but they have handled that beautifully. Then it was just a matter if they could handle the volumes of material that are expanded a little bit when you get into our league.
We're dealing with young people. I used to lecture my children all the time, too.
We established something great here in Seattle and we can build on it. But it's a tough, tough pill to swallow.
We wanted to keep Ken Lucas. And in free agency ... Carolina offered him just a phenomenal financial package, and he was gone.
We've kind of been on his shoulders a good portion of this year.
We're working to keep him here in Seattle. If he keeps playing he could have his best season ever and that's saying something. He's a complete player.
We're working to keep him here in Seattle,
That was very distasteful to me, to retaliate so to speak like that (against the Vikings). I do believe the commissioner should look into these kind of clauses. We work so hard on trying to gain labor peace and a new collective bargaining agreement and then we as clubs allow agents to get cute and circumvent it. On the playing field there are rules and there are unwritten rules about how the game should be played in the spirit and the fairness of it all. It doesn't make sense to me that we had to lose such a fine football player this way. I was surprised by the ruling.
That was very distasteful, our having to jump into something like that and retaliate, so to speak. I was very surprised that the special master came back with the ruling he did. It doesn't make any sense to me. But he did. And we lost a very fine football player.