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
I think that has always stuck with me. I put the ball in the hands of the best player in the world, in a fairly safe pass and I almost lost the game for our team. That stuck with me a long time in that situation.
He kind of set the tone for all those guys inside. And they've played well. He was a little like what John Randle was like for us a couple years ago.
I talked to him Saturday morning, and he was walking and moving. And he felt pretty good about it,
I'm going to be careful with Walter. Let me put it that way.
Anytime someone wants to compare me to Joe Gibbs, it's a compliment. He's one off the guys that if I could pattern my coaching after, he would certainly be one of the guys I've admired for a long, long time. He's one of the best ever.
The news is good, thank God. We were all saying prayers for him.
But I'd like to see two teams go at it any harder than we did.
I don't expect that and he knows it. He might not throw another one like that. But that was bad.
I had all those young guys in Green Bay all at once. It was a little scary having all young quarterbacks, but boy, what quality they all turned out to be.
It usually to takes three or four years to really look back on a draft.
I think the world of him and I think he is a really good football player. I set the bar very high for him. Anytime he falls short of that, fair or not fair, I will talk to him about it. He is a wonderful guy ... and he wants to do well. To go with his physical ability, all the things you have to do to be a great player, it should happen for him.
I know they're not OK with it. I wanted them to keep their heads up. There's no need to apologize for anything. We lost the football game and we lost it because of the reasons you lose most games ... mistakes.
It was a nice second half. The team played very, very well, especially in the second half.
The media day, it's pretty wild. They get their fill of that and they settle into a practice routine on Wednesday.