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
With the numbers he has put up, I think if you don't approach it at the start that way, you're making a huge mistake. He catches 14 balls, 12 balls, 13 balls, that's a lot of passes in a game. Clearly, they want him to be a big part of what they do. ... You better have some sort of answer for playing them or they can make you look pretty bad.
We'll see, ... Joe, of course, has played, and Hackett hasn't played very much so we'll see. He has certainly worked hard to do this, and I have confidence in him. We'll see how it goes.
Where I am impressed even more with him this year is his pass protection,
We have played better than we did tonight. Unfortunately, it's the biggest game of the year.
We are going to have to figure out how we're going to deal with a real strong receiver like that.
We were careless with the football, and we made too many mistakes. And when you play a good team like the Steelers, that's not a good combination.
There are times when I become frustrated when we get second (down) and nine, ... (But) I was bound and determined today to stay with it.
Wow, great story. That's an area we have to look at, but he certainly has done everything we have asked him to do.
It happens, because now you're down to one game, and anything can happen in any one game. But I think if you look over percentages over the last however many years, most of the times the guys that are playing at home have the advantage. So we're choosing to look at it that way.
I think that can be overstated just a little bit. If you have a very untalented guy who is a high-effort guy, you are going to lose every week. You like them like that, but the better player is going to win more games for you. The trick is finding those guys that are really fine football players and really don't think they are that great; they are always trying to get better.
No one wants a disruptive situation on his roster. There is too much at stake. Without naming names, we've seen too much of it recently. Teams are getting tired of it.
Anything I say sounds like an excuse. We had our chances.
I tried everything. I tried being nice. I tried kicking them in the rear end. ... Hopefully, I learned from that game.
Next season, I would expect more from him. I'm always going to push the envelope a little bit, and I think he would expect more from himself.