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
This happened every year I've coached in this game. By Thursday or Friday they get a little cranky and stuff happens.
He's doing good. But heck, he was the former head coach (in Green Bay) and he doesn't need to go to this game. (He's) doing OK. Healing up.
Patience. I thanked Paul for being patient with me in a rather volatile business, to allow your coaches to build something and to believe in them. You don't always see it as much as you should in this business, and he has been great for me. With the patience Mr. Allen has shown me, he gave me a chance to stand on the podium.
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.
Players and coaches who have gone through the game, that helps.
Honestly, there was some discussion on our coaching staff as to who really should continue being the starter. That was a real thing that happened. They were kind of different types; Mark was a little more steady early on than Brett. There was something appealing to a coach about that. Clearly, I had a decision to make.
I thanked him for allowing the coaches to build something. In such a volatile industry, you don't always get that.
They know what's at stake. And so you don't have to talk too much about that. I have to be coaching the same way.
Coaches are bad patients -- and Ray may be the worst.
It really is a team in the truest sense of the word. The sum of the parts is greater than the individual parts. This team is fairly unknown to most of the country.
As soon as they make some arrangements, he'll know and I'll know. We have to see. That's the first thing.
Steve Smith, for his size, is very, very strong -- physically a strong guy, has strong hands.
I said I was going to leave it up to him, but I have to pull rank. He's going upstairs.
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.