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When Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren speaks, everyone should listen.
Unfortunately this does not happen, at times.
Especially when Holmgren is standing in front of media members, during an impromptu press conference in-season, and the media is taking their notes and tweeting out Holmgren tid-bits.
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Then, some of the media doesn't listen to what may have been the most important message(s) in his address.
"It really bothers me when I get these, ‘unnamed source’ or however that’s phrased," Holmgren said. "We’re trying to put together a good organization and a good football team and all those things, all that is, is distracting us from what we’re trying to do. I don’t like it either.”
Holmgren specifically talked about the media attention of Peyton Hillis and the strep throat which caused him to miss a game, his contract issues and everything else in between.
"[The Hillis thing is] not this major conspiracy deal going on, it’s just he had an injury, he tried to go again, he couldn’t go and it’s something that happens every Sunday with any number of teams all the time, but because of the previous stuff that had happened with Peyton I suppose it became more newsworthy, but that’s where it sits," Holmgren said. "No one has called off negotiations, no one has said, ‘Let’s wait until the end.’"
So the Friday reports on the Internet—saying Hillis is going to become a free agent—are all false and this is a clear-cut example of another part of Holmgren's message not being heard by members of the media.
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I think it would be wise to look at T.Owens
ReplyDeletehe knows the west coast offence he might not be fast anymore due to his age but those 5 yard passes he knows how to hold on to the ball.