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Hey Mike Holmgren You May Be Listening,But No Teams Want To Hire You. Why Do You Think That Is?

Found January 17, 2013 on Cleveland Sports 360: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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Mike Holmgren the guy the Cleveland Browns new ownership couldn’t get rid of fast enough, is still unemployed. Gee  Mike, what do you suppose that is all about? Holmgren came to Cleveland and did very little to turn the Browns into a winning franchise. Even after he milked the former Browns owner Randy Learner out of close to 40 million dollars the Browns still finished the 2012 season with a record of 5 wins and 11 losses. Holmgren the man who said the Browns would be bettter in 2012 lied to everyone who would listen. he forced the teams general manager Tom Heckert into taking Brandon Weeden with the 22nd pick in the forst round of the 2012 draft. Weeden finished the season with the second worse total quarterback ranking in the NFL. I guess that stat pretty much debunks the the fact that Holmgren kept talking about. He said “trust me I know quarterbacks”. So much for that statement right Mike. Teams as bad as Kansas City and Jacksonville didn’t even want anything to do with the 8 m...
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