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A little Holmgren give-and-take
Mike Holmgren answered plenty of questions at the news conference Friday to announce receiver/kick returner Johua Cribbs’ long-awaited contract restructuring. Here are some highlights:
Q: What was the key to getting the Cribbs deal done?
A: I think you start with the philosophy of, we are going to make every effort to keep our core players, our best players, here with the team. Clearly, Josh is one of those. Now, his situation was different because he had a contract. Then you have to ask yourself the question, I want every player we have to want to be here and play and give me his best, give Eric (Mangini) his best. He had, in my opinion, outperformed his contract to a certain extent the more I studied it. How do we reward the player and at the same time maintain our contractual integrity as an organization? Once we kind of figured out how we wanted to do that and I got both sides talking to each other again, we were able to do it.”
Q: What about the uncapped year the NFL is facing?
A: It’s a little different, but I will say this, I don’t think we are getting bogged down too much in overanalyzing those things. My hope, and it will always be my hope, that nothing much changes going forward. We iron out the differences and keep playing. You know the rules. There are no minimums or maximums now this year. There are some other rules involved. We are approaching it, hopefully, how we will always approach it. What do we have to do to make our team better in a responsible way? If that means going after a player hard and spending, we will do that.
Q: What about the quarterback situation?
A: We are actively looking at quarterbacks. That’s fair to say. I will stick with my guns there with the way we will always do with free agency, draft and trades I can’t be any more specific than that right now.
Q: Have you met with Derek Anderson?
A: I have not personally. I have not and that’s unfortunate. I had hoped to. We’ve certainly evaluated all of our players. We just kind of have to see where that goes. I mentioned it the other day, those roster bonuses are in there to have the club make a decision in a timely manner for the player. I think that’s fair. If we decide to do that with a player, that all happened before I was here, but if you decide to do that with a player then you have to decide in fairness to the player. We like him. He’s a good guy. He’s either going to be here or we will let him know in a timely manner.
Q: What free agents are coming in for visits?
A: Right now (Scott) Fujita (Saints linebacker) is coming in. Tomorrow evening, I believe. There might be another player in tomorrow, but it hasn’t been finalized yet.
Q: Any veteran receivers on the radar?
A: We certainly talked about it at our meetings prior to the start of free agency. We talked about everybody. There is some room on the roster for different people. I would say in prioritizing and how much we talked about it and how much we were willing to dive in, with the receivers it wasn’t quite as urgent. I would say it that way. We have a couple of young guys we drafted last that I think are really good. Our pile of receivers can play. Signing Josh, you can refer to Josh as a receiver if you wanted to. Then we have the draft picks, but we are not done. I’m not saying we won’t, but when we talked about free agency there were other areas that seemed to have a higher priority.
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By quantoid
March 9, 2010 5:32 PM | Link to this
Thanks for highlighting the highlights! Interesting observations to be sure given last year.