Mike Holmgren
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"Michael George Holmgren" was an American football coach and executive, most recently serving as president of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). 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 2008. Prior to his career in the NFL, Holmgren coached football at the high school and collegiate levels.

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I probably didn't even have to say that.

The impressive thing ... was that he was pretty poised. At times, it gets a little hectic in there and he starts making audible checks and he gets hit and you start going in the wrong direction — in domes in particular, where it's real noisy. I thought he really handled it beautifully.

I talked to him Saturday morning, and he was walking and moving. And he felt pretty good about it.

To get this thing to quiet down we all just decided he has to not practice, not play, ... Otherwise it's one of those nagging things that could get worse if you don't do it.

There were a couple of times we could have gotten the ball to Peter, and they probably would have been pretty good plays, and we just didn't throw it to him. He's going to get nothing but better. He's a good addition for us.

I tip my hat to him that way.

Sean has played pretty well so we're going to let him play, ... But we're going to get Chop (Womack) in there to play a little bit.

The good news is with rest -- I believe and our medical people believe -- he will get better.

I can't tell you how long its going to be, ... Cartilage scopes typically can be two weeks, sometimes its longer. So we just have to see how it is.