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Marinelli in Hawks talks
Rod Marinelli, recently fired as Lions as head coach, reportedly is meeting with the Seahawks about possibly becoming their defensive coordinator.
The News Tribune
Will Marinelli start Mora makeover?
Seahawks president Tim Ruskell and new head coach Jim Mora apparently aren’t wasting time refashioning Seattle’s coaching staff.
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The News Tribune
Seahawks Ruskell’s team now
His achievements, his demeanor and his commanding physical presence made Mike Holmgren the face and figurehead of the Seattle Seahawks in recent seasons.
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Seahawks’ Jackson out to show he can live up to potential
Defensive end Lawrence Jackson totaled just two sacks in his first season for the Seahawks, but the team’s first-round draft pick says he laid down a foundation and expects bigger things to come
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Hawks have work cut out to fulfill parting predictions
In his final news conference as Seahawks coach, Mike Holmgren predicted, “The team will be good next year.” For that to happen, the Seahawks must get healthy, better and make some tough decisions.
Holmgren ready for R&R
In his farewell news conference after a decade as Seahawks coach, Mike Holmgren made it clear he won’t be job hunting until after spending a year off with his wife and family.
Holmgren may find it’s good to be king — again
The Seahawks season is over, meaning it’s time for Mike Holmgren to start thinking about his immediate future.
The News Tribune
Exiting Hawks coach as good with media as he was with his team
Seattle Seahawks players last week took up a collection to buy a fancy motorcycle in appreciation of Mike Holmgren’s coaching.
Holmgren talks to the end
What else can you ask the guy?
The Seattle Times
Mike Holmgren’s final goodbye
Mike Holmgren mixed humor and honesty in one final appearance as a Seahawks employee, discussing the great unknown of next season, when he won’t coach for the first time in 38 years.
Holmgren’s farewell includes tears, humor
Mike Holmgren concluded 10 seasons as the Seahawks coach with his final news conference Tuesday. The vintage finale, which lasted an hour, included humor and tears and the admission that he would be surprised if he never coaches again.
Mike Holmgren heads to the great unknown
Heraldnet
Holmgren keeps emotions in check during exit interview
Contrary to his sideline demeanor, Mike Holmgren was able to keep his emotions in check on Tuesday afternoon. There were no jowls shaking, no cheeks reddening, no fists pounding.
Holmgren: Seahawks in good hands with Mora
Technically speaking, the Mike Holmgren era will last five more days.
The Olympian
Holmgren ‘looking forward’ to time away from football
Seattle’s Mike Holmgren has been answering questions about his impending departure since the Seattle Seahawks kicked off his final season as head coach in July. Still, during his final news conference, Holmgren showed the patience and reserved demeanor that he’s come to be known for in his decade with the Seahawks.
Mike Holmgren dashes broadcast playoff talk
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Hawks turn the page
As Mike Holmgren met with his players for the final time Monday, slowly, but surly, the transition began to the man who will replace Holmgren as Seahawks coach in 2009: Secondary coach Jim Mora.
Seattle on sideline as playoffs begin
The Indianapolis Colts ended the NFL regular season on a nine-game winning streak, earning the designation as a team no one would want to meet in the playoffs.
The News Tribune
Seahawks expect energy, enthusiasm from Mora
He’s been described as a hands-on coach with boundless energy who thrives on driving players to perform their best. And he had some success during his first head coaching stint with Atlanta.
What’s next for Seahawks?
At 4-12, the Seattle Seahawks finished their worst season since the franchise-worst 2-14 season in 1992.
On Monday, Seattle players cleared their lockers without reaching the postseason for the first time since 2002. And many changes appear to be in store now that coach Mike Holmgren’s 10-year reign is over.
Give Mora a break and wave Holmgren goodbye
Now that the Seattle phase of Mike Holmgren’s football career has drawn to a conclusion, I say we do both the former Seahawks coach and his forever loyal fans a favor.
The Seattle Times
Expect Seahawks to pick up pace under coach Jim Mora
As players packed their things at team headquarters Monday with the Seahawks’ season over, some paused to reflect on the incoming head coach, Jim Mora.
Heraldnet
For Seahawks, transition from Holmgren to Mora complete
The Seattle Seahawks ended a bad football season and started a new era on Monday with outgoing head coach Mike Holmgren saying good-bye to his players before the squad and coaching staff departed to their offseasons.
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2009 Opponents announced.
I’ve jumped to page 2 here, where the Hawks are listed. I love the away schedule, no brutal east coast swings.
ESPN
NFC West Team Evaluations
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Hawks, Holmgren go out on a losing note
The Seahawks’ makeshift offense played well enough to keep the team in Sunday’s season finale. But the defense again allowed too many big plays, as the Arizona Cardinals slapped the Seahawks with a 34-21 loss.
Seahawks’ defense burned again
The season’s biggest mystery remains how a respectable defense went so sour from one year to the next. By the simple measure of opponent points allowed this season, the Seahawks’ total of 392 was surpassed only four times in team history. It was 101 more than a year ago.
Fitzgerald wins matchup with Trufant
The Seahawks decided to have veteran cornerback Marcus Trufant shadow wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald in Sunday’s season finale against the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium — rather than staying on the left side, as Trufant usually does.
Notebook: Branch proves his worth at the end
Deion Branch was limited to half-a-season because of injuries. But the Seahawks’ wide receiver finished with a flourish in Sunday’s loss to the Arizona Cardinals, catching two touchdown passes.
The News Tribune
One more loss for the road
The Seattle Seahawks’ 2008 season ended Sunday in a fashion similar to the way it began: With a demoralizing loss.
Nothing wrong about two dozen top picks can’t fix
Remember the end of last season, when we evaluated the Seahawks’ needs and the only real dire situation was at tight end?
Better late than never for Branch
Especially with a fingertip touchdown grab in the second quarter in Sunday’s game against Arizona, receiver Deion Branch displayed the kind of skills the Seahawks hoped for when they traded a first-round draft pick to get him from New England in 2006.
Even Trufant’s best is not enough
There is perhaps nothing more frustrating than when a player does his job and still gets beat.
The Seattle Times
Seahawks fall to Cardinals in Mike Holmgren’s farewell game
The Seahawks lost to the Arizona Cardinals 34-21 in the 2008 regular-season finale and finished 4-12. It was also coach Mike Holmgren’s final game with the team
Steve Kelley: Mike Holmgren entering the great unknown
Seahawks fall to Cardinals in Holmgren’s farewell game
Edgerrin James hits ground running
Seahawks two-minute drill
Surprising Arizona carries clean slate into postseason
Heraldnet
Emotional goodbye for Holmgren
The eyes gave away coach Mike Holmgren’s true emotions Sunday.
Seahawks get fourth pick NFL draft
Wallace believes he’s proved he can play
Seneca Wallace didn’t need another good passing rating to prove that he belongs in the NFL. Oh, the Seahawks’ quarterback knows that others still may not believe he can hack it in this league, but Wallace certainly does.
The News Tribune
Holmgren reaches the end … for now
At some point this afternoon, Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren will stroll off the field at the University of Phoenix Stadium and into the unfamiliar role of a normal citizen.
The Seattle Times
Seahawks, Cardinals each have things to play for
The Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals are going in different directions as the regular season ends today for both teams, but the Cardinals still have the NFC West clinched and the Seahawks are left to send a message that it’s only temporary.
Seahawks vs. Cardinals preview
Heraldnet
No one knows Holmgren’s future
While Seattle Seahawks fans will say goodbye — again, but this time from a distance — to Mike Holmgren this afternoon, this might not be the last they see of him.
Cardinals in free fall
The last time the Arizona Cardinals went into a game against the Seattle Seahawks, they were trying to put the final nail into the coffin of the NFC West’s defending champions.
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The News Tribune
Something for Holmgren’s ride into the sunset
Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren was surprised when his players bestowed the Largent Award on him last week, an honor usually reserved for a player.
An early look at the draft
The Seattle Times
Mike Holmgren gets gift from team — a red Harley
Mike Holmgren led his final practice as Seahawks head coach Friday at team headquarters, then received a surprise farewell gift from the team — a cherry red Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycle.
Heraldnet
Seahawks notebook: Holmgren surprised with Harley
After promising that he would ride out of town on a Harley-Davidson, Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren nearly did on Friday afternoon.
Holmgren almost bolts early
After the final practice of his Seattle Seahawks career, Mike Holmgren almost left town early.
ESPN
Cards to play starters
In a perfect world, playoff-bound Arizona would rest its starters in the meaningless regular-season finale against Seattle on Sunday.
Holmgren gets going-away gift
Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren always said that when the 2008 season was over he wanted to return to his home in the Phoenix area and ride his motorcycle.
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Seahawks players surprise Holmgren with going-away gift
Mike Holmgren has talked a lot recently about riding his motorcycle during his NFL sabbatical next season, so his players surprised the Seahawks’ outgoing coach with a special gift after practice Friday — an ‘09 Screaming Eagle.
The News Tribune
Who is the next new hope Seahawks?
With the season a few days from completion and head coach Mike Holmgren heading into retirement, the Seattle Seahawks’ focus soon will shift to the offseason and restoring the team to playoff contention.
Mare aware there are no guarantees
Perhaps more than any other position, kicker presents a quandary for the Seattle Seahawks as they head into the offseason.
Closer than you think
Face it, there’s no way to dress up this season to make the Seahawks look like anything but a struggling team near the bottom of the NFL food chain.
Meaningless? Not to Cardinals, Hawks
Arizona clinched a spot in NFC playoffs three weeks ago. The 8-7 Cardinals have not played well since.
The Seattle Times
Seahawks lineman Kyle Williams showing he belongs in the NFL
The Seahawks brought Williams back to the practice squad that October — “an absolute blessing,” he said — and he’s stuck around, progressing to the point that last Sunday he started his first NFL game at left tackle, the most important position on the offensive line no less.
Seattle’s biggest loss is Mike Holmgren’s exit
Heraldnet
Holmgren got the sendoff he deserved
Mike Holmgren is a man of faith, but not necessarily fate. The Seattle Seahawks’ ticking head coach believes that you make your own destiny, which explains why he pushes his players to go hard every week.
Seahawks’ class of 2007 makes the grade
While defensive tackle Brandon Mebane started 10 games as a rookie, and speedy cornerback Josh Wilson opened some eyes with an array of nifty moves in the return game, the rest of the Seattle Seahawks’ 2007 draft class could only look on…
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Hawks’ Wallace making most of second stretch as a starter
The Seneca Wallace who has started the past three games at quarterback for the Seahawks is not the same player who started four games earlier this season, and there are several reasons for his second-time-around success.
The News Tribune
Josh Wilson defensive player of the week
With the Seattle Seahawks enjoying their 13-3 victory over the New York Jets, cornerback Josh Wilson’s teammates had not seen him since he had the best game of his young career Sunday – two interceptions and a sack of Brett Favre.
The Seattle Times
Steve Kelley | Snowball missiles at Qwest Field were an embarrassment
Danny O’Neil | Thin, hurt Hawks’ turnaround is a puzzle
Seahawks Notebook | Mike Holmgren expects flawless handoff to new coach
Heraldnet
For Mora, one more week of flying under the radar
As the Seattle Seahawks began their final week of game preparations on Tuesday afternoon, head coach Mike Holmgren stood in the middle of it all with his typical presence.
Seahawks notebook: Stats worse, but Mora defends veteran safeties
While the Seattle Seahawks still rank dead last in the league in passing yards allowed per game (253.5), and they are in position to post the lowest interception total in franchise history, defensive backs coach Jim Mora cautioned that the…
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