Holmgren ‘calm’ amid last, losing days (AP)

Holmgren ‘calm’ amid last, losing days (AP)
RENTON, Wash. — For the first time in 17 years as an NFL head coach, Mike Holmgren doesn’t have an answer. For the first time since the early 1970s, before he began coaching high school freshmen in San Francisco, he doesn’t need one. It’s an odd, unknown world for the 60-year-old Holmgren. He realizes he has no say in the Seahawks‘ evaluation of these final six games, with Seattle out of the…

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Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren said that the team’s role, now that it is 2-8 and out of the race for the NFC West title, has changed from winning the division to playing spoiler.

It is not something Holmgren ever thought he would be saying in what is his final season as a head coach.

But now that they have lost their third consecutive game while the Arizona Cardinals improved to 7-3, Holmgren addressed the players and coaches on Monday morning and told them that they need to approach the remaining six games of the season in a professional manner.

“We’re fortunate,” Holmgren said. “And to cheapen that, or to take anything away from that opportunity by not giving it everything you have every week, regardless of how the team’s doing, I would be very…

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