The following Holmgren quote from SI's Banks' artile 2/2:
Good for Mike Holmgren, who hasn't given us the coach's cliché about nothing matters but winning this week. It isn't the end of the world to lose the Super Bowl. Somebody does it every year. I looked it up.
"I told the players that they've accomplished quite a bit already,'' Holmgren said this week. "We still have that game to play, but I'm not one of those that if bad things happen Sunday, they didn't deserve to be here or the season is a waste. I'm not ready to discount seven months of my life if the game doesn't go our way on Sunday.
"I think a lot of great things have been accomplished by our franchise this year. We are going to play like crazy, and we want to get that trophy on Sunday, but I don't want to discount what we have done so far, because as coaches and players you have to enjoy the journey and you have to enjoy each day. Those people who can't are probably in it for the wrong reasons.''
Does this sound like a coach who is resigned to the fact that his team might get its collective @$$ handed to it on Sunday? Cannot hear Cowher ever saying anything like this to minimize the import of the game.
Good for Mike Holmgren, who hasn't given us the coach's cliché about nothing matters but winning this week. It isn't the end of the world to lose the Super Bowl. Somebody does it every year. I looked it up.
"I told the players that they've accomplished quite a bit already,'' Holmgren said this week. "We still have that game to play, but I'm not one of those that if bad things happen Sunday, they didn't deserve to be here or the season is a waste. I'm not ready to discount seven months of my life if the game doesn't go our way on Sunday.
"I think a lot of great things have been accomplished by our franchise this year. We are going to play like crazy, and we want to get that trophy on Sunday, but I don't want to discount what we have done so far, because as coaches and players you have to enjoy the journey and you have to enjoy each day. Those people who can't are probably in it for the wrong reasons.''
Does this sound like a coach who is resigned to the fact that his team might get its collective @$$ handed to it on Sunday? Cannot hear Cowher ever saying anything like this to minimize the import of the game.
