With Seahawks G.M. Tim Ruskell stepping down, the team needs a new G.M.
And those rumors linking Mike Holmgren to the job aren’t going away.
We’re told that Holmgren is indeed “in play” for the job. It’s unclear at this point whether Holmgren would assume the two titles held by Ruskell — President of Football Operations and General Manager — or whether Holmgren would take the executive-level gig only (like Bill Parcells in Miami) and fill out the organizational chart with a G.M. and all other positions below it.
There’s currently no talk that Holmgren would come back as the head coach in Seattle or elsewhere. He remains under consideration for a high-level job in Cleveland, and he has expressed an interest in becoming associated with an East Coast team.
Holmgren previously served as G.M. of the Seahawks, but he relinquished the position under pressure, focusing only on the coaching portion of his duties.
Under the league’s recent expansion of the Rooney Rule, the Seahawks will be required to interview at least one minority candidate for the top football position in the organization, regardless of the title that applies to it. If it becomes too obvious that Holmgren is the clubhouse leader, the franchise might have trouble persuading qualified minority candidates to sit for the job.
The fact that the NFL has to have a token black interview before any hiring seems so messed up to me….
Good. Maybe he can hire Zorn to make copies for him.
The fact that so many PFT readers are a bunch of crazy racists always seems so messed up to me.
The fact that Nagaswim thinks someone believing interviewing a black man with no intentioning of hiring him is messed up is akin to being a racist is messed up to me.
If they are set on Holgrem and interview anyone after that with no intention of hiring anyone but Holgrem everyone’s time is wasted.
By the way, if a team’s management is racist, why would they hire a black man regardless?
The racist team would go through the motions of interviewing whoever they needed to fit the required demographics. Ignore the interview, no matter how well the candidate did, and hire whomever they want. Yes they would be worse off for this approach, but being forced to meet interview quotas for certain demographics will not change the result. It will just result in sham interviews.
its not a ridiculous/racist statement. What if there was the… ::Insert a random owner’s name here:: Rule which required at least one WHITE person to be interviewed for a position before others were selected…
Would that be racist? Or would it just be a standard protocol.
Why can’t it just be the best PERSON available for the job… whether your black, white, male, female, or, in the Raiders case – a DONKEY which could run the organization better than Big Al.
Just Interview, Baby.
i’m black and i think it makes no sense that you have to force a business to interview someone of color even if the company already has a person in mind that they want..i think i would be actually more insulted, like the token black guy
Why? What’s the point?
I love it when Holmgren is in play jockin’ jockin’. — Kriss Kross
Amen Donkie, Could you imagine someone giving a great coach like Tomlin (before the Steelers) a token/pity interview. What a disgrace that would be. The sooner we actually start treating everyone equal and start relying on merits alone the better off we’ll be. I think the NFL in most cases is beyond all this, and society should take a quick lesson. Let the best man/woman win…..always.
Hey Holmgren, sign with Seattle, so these stupid cheeseheads stop dreaming in these fantasies of you and Jon Gruden taking over the team.
it’s not going to happen, the Packers made their bed, ran every legend out of town and now they’re complaining. karma’s a bitch cheeseheads, and if you think any player, coach, or executive would touch the Packers with a 10 foot pole you are sadly mistaken.
Ted thompson has created an atmosphere where the only loyalty is to his handpicked QB and coach who he’s in bed with. Anyone else who wasn’t personally brought in by him is hanging on by a thread.
he’s shown he can’t close a deal for McKenzie, Moss, and others, so why would anyone think he could bring in a major name like Holmgren?
Packers suck, just ask the Red Sox who took 80 years to recover after trading the Babe.
“Packers suck, just ask the Red Sox who took 80 years to recover after trading the Babe.”
Stetai,
That is a brutal comparison. The Babe was 24 with the prime of his career still ahead of him when the Sox traded him. Favre was 39 and coming of some of his worst years as a professional. But your rant about TT is justly deserved.
Jim Zorn just sent out a press release:
“Today I am announcing that I intend to get back into doing XXXL Laundry in the Pacific North West next season.”
Thanks you,
Z Baby
“The Walrus” will be with the Seahawks at some point. We all know it, and maybe Shanahan as the new coach will be the one to get Seattle pointed in the right direction.