DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Pure Football Forum Report: Mike Holmgren is interested in coaching the 49ers

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-foot...ching-the-49ers

Report: Mike Holmgren is interested in coaching the 49ers


Report: Mike Holmgren is interested in coaching the 49ers
By Sean Wagner-McGough | Staff Writer
December 28, 2015 7:14 pm ET

After letting Jim Harbaugh walk away last offseason, the 49ers turned to the unproven Jim Tomsula to take over as head coach. If the 49ers decide to part ways with Tomsula after one season and go after a more established name this time, one former head coach with a Super Bowl ring seems to be willing to help repair the sinking franchise.

According to Robert Klemko of Sports Illustrated's Monday Morning Quarterback, Mike Holmgren, 67, is interested in returning to the 49ers.

Per Dave Mahler of 950 KJR, Holmgren isn't even keeping his interest a secret.

Holmgren's resume is impressive. As the coach of the Packers and Seahawks, Holmgren amassed a 161-111 record, winning a ring in 1996 and reaching the Super Bowl two more times later in his career, which ended after the 2008 season. Most recently, Holmgren served as the president of the Browns -- a job that didn't go as planned. In Holmgren's three years in Cleveland, the Browns went 14-34. Holmgren's tenure ended following the 2012 season and he admitted last year that he should've coached the Browns.

Of course, there's a chance the 49ers job won't even be available, despite the team's unflattering 4-11 record. As CBS NFL Insider Jason La Canfora recently wrote, the team could retain the current regime.

They just did their big move a year ago by pushing Jim Harbaugh out and they surprised many around the league by limiting the role of influential front office exec Paraag Marathe recently. That's probably the extent of the moves. Marathe is exceedingly close to owner Jed York and the implication here seems to be that getting him out of football operations in anything but a cap/money capacity was throwing the fans a bone during a season in which they can only dream of the heights they achieved under Harbaugh. Coach Jim Tomsula and GM Trent Baalke are very highly thought of by the Yorks and they have been loyal warriors for them and despite the course of this season I'd wager they stand pat.

Whoever is in charge next season will be able to select a player early in next year's draft. As it currently stands, the 49ers are slotted to pick fifth.

Good luck with that

The 49ers GM is really trying to prove he didn't need Harbaugh by bringing in a HoF coach? I hope he does. Holmgren has been leeching off of very talented teams for too long. I'd love to watch him flounder and get his much deserved reputation.

I still can't believe he got paid $50 million to hire Pat Shurmur and run the Browns further into the ground... absolutely horrible.

Rich people aren't necessarily smart. The Walrus outsmarted the Browns on that one. LOL

He's always tossing his name into the hat. I think his devious, lazy-assed ways finally caught up to him. Although, if there is a FO to hire The Big Show, it probably would be SF.

Somewhere in the Bay Area, Eric Mangini is freaking out!

I feel like Holmgren is always linked to this job

Do they realize that he won his ring 20 years ago (from the date of the next Superbowl. Granted, he's been back there 2 more times since, but he lost.

He was a terrible team President here. Sorry, but I think at 67, he's done.

But I wish them well.

Does he have to stand on the sideline during the games;
Or can he just sit in a Golf Cart?

Took the words right out of my mouth

I think coaching would be OK for him. Being on the sidelines would keep him out of the golf cart and the daqueries out of his hand.

We gotta ignore this guy. Just not the star you wanna hang your hat on.

Confirmation of Holmgren's douchiness. Who publicly lobbies for a job when there is someone still in that position?