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	Mike Holmgren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael George Holmgren (born June 15, 1948 in San Francisco, California) is an NFL football coach.
		One of Holmgren's claims to fame is the success he had with Brett Favre during the 1990s.
		During that time the Packers were a consistent winner and Holmgren became known as one of the best coaches in the NFL, posting a 75-37-0 (67% winning percentage) record from 1992-1998.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Holmgren (294 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mike Holmgren
		Mike Holmgren (born June 15, 1948 in San Francisco, California) is an NFL football coach.
		Mike Holmgren enters his seventh season as head coach after guiding the club to their first NFC West title in 2004.
		Holmgren's 1996 team that won the Super Bowl, led the NFL in scoring with a team-record 456 points and also led the league in defensive scoring, a feat that had not been accomplished since 1972.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mike-Holmgren (960 words)

	Holmgren sees breakout season for Seahawks - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren watches a replay on the stadium screen during a break in the action against the New Orleans Saints, Friday, Aug. 12, 2005, in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.
		Holmgren, in his 14th season as a head coach, emerged from "a time of mourning" in the desert to go through a period of self-examination with his assistants, new president Tim Ruskell and chief salary cap juggler Mike Reinfeldt.
		Hasselbeck, Holmgren said, could be on the verge of a monster season, better than his Pro Bowl season two years ago when he threw for 3,841 yards and 26 touchdowns and had an 88.8 rating.
	www.boston.com /sports/football/articles/2005/08/13/holmgren_sees_breakout_season_for_seahawks?page=2 (1373 words)

	Covenant News - Mike Holmgren: His Life Reads Like a Good Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mike and Kathy will be on hand for the festivities, to be held at halftime during North Park's home contest.
		Holmgren, in his sixth year as coach of the Seahawks, is excited about his young and talented team, one many considered a preseason favorite to win the NFC.
		Holmgren's faith and the support of his family keep him strong in the pressure-cooker world of an NFL coach.
	www.covchurch.org /cov/news/item3889.html (2148 words)

	ESPN.com: NFL - Report: Holmgren could give up GM duties
		Holmgren is expected to meet with team owner Paul Allen and team president Bob Whitsitt within 48 hours to discuss his future.
		Holmgren is 31-33 in four years in Seattle, closing this season with three straight wins after a 31-28 overtime victory at San Diego on Sunday.
		Holmgren signed a $32 million, eight-year contract with the Seahawks, who are owned by billionaire Paul Allen, to be their coach and general manager after coaching the Green Bay Packers to a 75-37 record and two Super Bowl appearances.
	espn.go.com /nfl/news/2002/1229/1484035.html (363 words)

	NFL Playoffs
		Perhaps the biggest surprises to Holmgren was the rapid rise and success of Andy Reid in Philadelphia and Mike Sherman in Green Bay.
		Mike Sherman was a little surprising in the sense that he went to the coach-general manger position and he was really only two years away from being a tight ends coach.
		Mike Sherman, of course, is a little like me. He was a high school teacher and coach.
	espn.go.com /nfl/playoffs01/columns/clayton_john/1309732.html (968 words)

	JS Online: JS Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But Holmgren, who elected neither to explore his chances for promotion with Harlan nor discuss Wolf's future plans with the general manager, says he has no regrets about leaving Green Bay and making a return to his roots on the West Coast as the highest-paid executive in National Football League history.
		If Holmgren had waited, he probably would have completed his career in the NFL's smallest city, where he enjoyed immense success and popularity, was honored when a main thoroughfare was re-named for him and coached a quarterback named Brett Favre.
		It was Holmgren's first taste of a losing season since he entered the league as an assistant with the San Francisco 49ers in 1986.
	www.jsonline.com /packer/news/feb01/mike27022601.asp?format=print (3153 words)

	Sporting News, The: Confronting the Lombardi legend - Green Bay Packers' coach Mike Holmgren - Super Bowl Preview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Holmgren can be tough and he has a terrible temper but, unlike Lombardi, he is not a bully.
		Holmgren probably would wince if we called him a man of the '90s-one of his pet peeves is when he is described as "too nice" to be successful in the NFL--but he at least directs his cooperation using reasonable tough love.
		Holmgren is a strikingly intelligent, private man, with a warm and engaging public side, who can glide from singing Beach Boys hits to riding his cycle alongside Hell's Angels to collecting money for the Salvation Army to serving as co-chair of the NFL's powerful Competition Committee--and not seem out of place at any juncture.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n4_v221/ai_19056199 (1693 words)

	CNNSI.com - NFL Playoffs - AFC Wild Card - Dolphins vs. Seahawks - Seattle's season tough on Holmgren and his ...
		Under Holmgren, the Seahawks had their first winning season since 1990 and made it to the playoffs for the first time since 1988.
		Holmgren wanted to be on the winning side in Sunday's game against the Dolphins to feel good about himself.
		Holmgren's insides boiled in the week leading up to the game, said Tom Lovat, who has been Holmgren's offensive line coach since Holmgren's first season in Green Bay in 1992.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/nfl/2000/playoffs/wc_afc_gm2/news/2000/01/07/holmgren_seahawks_ap (764 words)

	Holmgren's hot seat / Seahawks' collapse, front-office squabbles troubling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mike Holmgren had everything in place for a Super Bowl run in this, his sixth year as the Seahawks' coach, but the team has collapsed after a 3-0 start and there is considerable uncertainty about the future of Holmgren, team president Bob Whitsitt and several key players.
		People close to Holmgren say he is particularly upset that Hasselbeck was allowed to play out his contract and believes the contract issue weighs on the quarterback's mind and has contributed to his struggles on the field.
		Holmgren has two years remaining on his contract, but odds are either he or Whitsitt will be gone after the season.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/21/SPG5O9UMKE1.DTL (1179 words)

	Packers Premium - Reborn Mike Holmgren to return to Green Bay
		A year ago, Mike Holmgren’s job — or jobs, as they were at the time — was on the line.
		Holmgren returns to Green Bay, where he was 84-42 with two Super Bowl appearances as coach of the Packers from 1992 to 1998, on Sunday when the Seahawks play the Packers at Lambeau Field.
		One of Holmgren’s few highlights during his first four seasons in Seattle was the 27-7 rout of the Packers in 1999.
	www.packersnews.com /print/print_12546221.shtml (758 words)

	Sporting News, The: Supreme Seahawk - Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mike Holmgren has renewed enthusiasm as the NFL's newest coach-czar, Look for his disciplined, detail-oriented style to lift the Seahawks from their underachieving rut and into the playoffs.
		Amid the chaos and clatter, Holmgren sits in a temporary office down the hall from where his new digs are being prepared.
		At 3, Holmgren's administrative aide asks if he wants her to warm up some teriyaki chicken, which has been sitting on his desk for a couple of hours.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_28_223/ai_55198629 (1443 words)

	Packers.com » Team » Coaches » Sherman Mike
		Sherman is tied (with the Broncos' Mike Shanahan) as the 18th-fastest coach to 50 victories in NFL history, and the only active head coaches who have reached the 50-win plateau sooner than he and Shanahan are Gibbs (71 games) and Cowher (75 games).
		From the time he arrived in Green Bay in 1997 to become tight ends coach under Holmgren, fresh from a second tour of duty as offensive line coach at Texas A&M, to when he was named as the 13th head coach in Packers history Jan. 18, 2000, less than four years' time had passed.
		"Is Mike Sherman, with limited NFL experience and no head coaching experience, ready to be the head football coach for one of the cornerstone franchises in the NFL," he asked rhetorically at his first news conference.
	www.packers.com /team/coaches/sherman_mike (4917 words)

	The Seattle Times: Sports: Pressure is building in Kirkland
		Coach Mike Holmgren, left, and team president Bob Whitsitt appear to be locked in a power struggle.
		"People close to Holmgren say he is particularly upset that Hasselbeck was allowed to play out his contract and believes the contract issue weighs heavily on the quarterback's mind and has contributed to his struggles on the field," the story said.
		Holmgren is a better coach than he has been this year.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/sports/2002101039_les26.html (932 words)

	The Seattle Times: Sports: Seahawks notebook: Coach says passion not issue
		These are the kinds of inquiries Holmgren and the Seahawks are faced with because the team is coming off a bad game and has not performed to the level of expectations heaped upon it.
		Holmgren also had to answer a question about players' attitudes in the locker room after losses.
		In his first season as an NFL assistant, 1986, Holmgren's 49ers lost to the New York Giants 49-3 at the Meadowlands.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/sports/2002106609_hawknote02.html (504 words)

	Becky's Seattle Seahawks Fan Site
		Mike Holmgren had to go back to his beloved Green Bay Packers and put together a game plan that would defeat the man he refers to as "the son I never had".
		Mike Holmgren finally convinced me that Seattle is his team and now I can't wait for the 2004 season!
		I don't remember the details precisely, but I seem to remember that it was late in the 3rd quarter, and the Hawks had the Fins on their one or two yard line.
	www.beckys-place.com /ilikemike.html (842 words)

	Raider Jon's RANT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I thought the Seahawks were blessed when Mike Holmgren decided to coach a team that was part of one the most irrelevant franchises in the NFL; Not good enough to make the playoffs, yet not bad enough to consistently get a top five draft pick year in and year out.
		Mike Holmgren has not won a playoff game in Seattle, nor have his teams played to their full potential.
		Mike Holmgren the "coach" was a failure this year.
	www.talkhawks.com /Seahawks-Page2/RaiderJonRant1.html (1121 words)

	Coaches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Holmgren’s offense ranked sixth in the NFL in 2003 and produced four Pro Bowlers (Shaun Alexander, Matt Hasselbeck, Steve Hutchinson, Walter Jones) along with Alex Bannister who earned a trip for his special teams play.
		The 2000 campaign saw Holmgren continue to mold the Seahawks into his vision, revamping the roster and adding players that would be the backbone of the team for seasons to come.
		Mike and his wife, Kathy, have four daughters–twins Calla and Jenny (9/27/73), Emily (1/24/77), and Gretchen (7/14/81), and two granddaughters, Emma and Emerson.
	www.seahawks.com /coaches.aspx?SecID=43&CoachID=1 (1203 words)

	Holmgren staying put
		The conjecture over Holmgren's status with the Seahawks grew last week when the San Francisco 49ers fired Dennis Erickson, the coach who was terminated by the Seahawks in 1999 to open the way for Holmgren to be hired.
		Holmgren is from San Francisco and was an assistant coach with the 49ers from 1986-91, when the franchise won two Super Bowls.
		Holmgren has said he would like to finish his career with the Seahawks, and that he and his wife, Kathy, have settled into an enjoyable lifestyle here.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /football/207368_hawk11.html (827 words)

	JS Online: Holmgren likes Sherman's style
		Green Bay - Mike Holmgren expected Mike Sherman to become a head coach in the National Football League because, in his eyes, he possessed all the right stuff.
		Contrary to speculation at the Senior Bowl, Holmgren denied that he had added any verbiage to the contracts of his assistant coaches that would keep them from coaching in Green Bay.
		Holmgren called the plays in '99 but said he had utmost confidence in both Sherman and quarterbacks coach Mike Sheppard.
	www.jsonline.com /packer/news/jan00/packers22012100.asp?format=print (1060 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Holmgren allowed that he might still be miserable, or possibly even elsewhere, were it not for the hiring of CEO Tod Leiweke in June 2003.
		Holmgren was already in Indianapolis for the NFL scouting combine when Tim Ruskell accepted the job.
		Unlike Whitsitt, Ruskell is a longtime NFL personnel man. Holmgren and others in the organization have described their new boss as a hard worker who seems to harbor no hidden agendas.
	www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=FBN-HOLMGREN-03-22-05&cat=FP (1309 words)

	Thoughts from one of few not asked to join Holmgren
		GREEN BAY - When Mike Holmgren departed for the Great Northwest he took only what he could carry, which explains why Gilbert Brown is still on the premises.
		Holmgren was within his rights to hire 10 assistant coaches from his Green Bay staff.
		Holmgren said he was concerned because fallout from the Press-Gazette article might make it difficult until his family joins him in Seattle.
	www.packersnews.com /archives/9901/0131havel.shtml (547 words)

	ESPN.com - NFL - Sea of change? It won't start with Holmgren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Holmgren also expressed frustration with news coverage after Seattle's 28-26 win over Atlanta in the regular-season finale, a victory that secured the third division title in franchise history.
		Holmgren met briefly Monday with team president Bob Whitsitt to discuss the free-agency period and expects to meet with team owner Paul Allen.
		Holmgren wore his Super Bowl ring from Green Bay's title after the 1996 season, saying he remains committed to winning another championship with the Seahawks.
	sports.espn.go.com /nfl/news/story?id=1964841 (597 words)

	HeraldNet: 'Chucky' is not like Mike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Holmgren knows what it's like to take a team through some growing pains, as he did during his first few years in Seattle.
		Gruden is in the early stages of that, with the Buccaneers having cut their ties with longtime stars Warren Sapp and John Lynch while rebuilding an offensive line that had gotten long in the tooth.
		Holmgren, now 56 years old and in his sixth year with the Seahawks, hopes the worst adversity is behind him.
	www.heraldnet.com /stories/04/09/16/spo_hawks001.cfm (889 words)

	Scout.com: Voice Of The Fan - "The Holmgren Way"
		Mike Holmgren has efficiently and effectively executed his master plan for the preseason as close to perfection as it has ever been.
		Mike believes in his vision, he believes in his team, he has never quit.
		Holmgren has endured six years of painful hard work that is just now reaping the rewards of success with the Seattle Seahawks.
	seahawks.scout.com /2/293518.html (899 words)

	WSJ Sports
		Holmgren and Rhodes met early last week to incorporate their knowledge of Favre into the Seahawks' defensive game plan, and Favre can expect the unexpected today.
		I think Holmgren, the whole ego thing is just who he is. A lot of guys like the attention and gratification of it all.
		Sherman and Holmgren say they are close friends, although they don't talk during the season and their social interaction is limited to a dinner at the scouting combine or league meetings.
	www.madison.com /wisconsinstatejournal/sports/58165.php (1496 words)

	Seahawks Huddle :: View topic - Mike Holmgren's Monday Press Conference
		Holmgren: âWe had a package put together that we were going to use against them, and the first time I called it, Matt got sacked.
		Holmgren: âAs far as scheme, no. Iâm guilty of this too, if all of a sudden youâve got a big lead or what you think is a comfortable lead and you get the ball down in there inside the 10, I think differently.
		Holmgren: âI think Walter had a good game, but I will say this in fairness to their defensive player, he (Patrick Kerney) is one of those guys that goes.
	seahawkshuddle.com /v1/viewtopic.php?p=4672&... (4061 words)

	The News Tribune - Holmgren heeds his history (print) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		So when Mike Holmgren experienced three episodes of tightness in his chest recently, the Seattle Seahawks coach didn’t wait for a fourth reminder.
		Holmgren said he and his wife, Kathy, exercise regularly in the mornings.
		Holmgren is close to 6-foot-5 and weighs more than experts would recommend.
	www.thenewstribune.com /sports/v-printer/story/4932237p-4515209c.html (664 words)

	Spring returns to Holmgren's step with rush of recent events
		But standing in a hallway of a hotel adjacent to the RCA Dome, Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren conveyed a demeanor as close to delightful as it's been in quite a while.
		Three weeks later, longtime Holmgren associate Mike Reinfeldt returned as a consultant after a one-year hiatus to help the Seahawks sort through the mess that was having nine starters among 16 potential unrestricted free agents.
		Holmgren's psyche is still tender from his most recent round of head butting.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /football/213538_clare25.html (974 words)

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