Holmgren Elaborates on Planned Return
After first telling the Post's Les Carpenter that he's ready to work again, Mike Holmgren reiterated to Seattle radio station KJR that he's prepared to return to the NFL, either as a coach or a front office executive, in the 2010 season.
"I think I want to work again," Holmgren told the station. "Yeah, absolutely. We're going to take the year off and then after next season is over, we'll see. I plan to go back to work. But now, where and in what capacity, that is really pretty vague. I don't know. But I know this: I want to do something.... I'm going to be open. I'm looking at the hires recently and they're hiring young coaches, for one thing, and I'm a little bit of a dinosaur.... I am going to be open to just about any possibility."
Holmgren stepped aside as the coach of the Seahawks after last season but indicated he already misses the sport.
"Absolutely," he said during the radio interview. "I remember draft day, I was kind of getting involved in the draft, at least watching it on television. I really had to kind of check myself and say, 'Listen, I don't have to get all worked up like this any more for this right now.'... One of my purposes behind taking a year off was to figure out one, how would I react to that and then kind of decide after that and react to that and see what the future held.... You do something for so long and enjoy it so much, I think that's human nature that you're gonna miss it. Anyone who tells you that they don't miss it, I don't think is being quite honest with you."
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May 13, 2009; 11:22 AM ET
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Nice knowing you Jim Zorn.