Mike Holmgren Looking to Get Back in to Coaching?

Mike Holmgren--former football coach and team president--has nothing left to prove. Yeah, he could try his hand at the front office again, but he's a coach at heart--not an executive. He's coached in Super Bowls; has won and lost. Yeah, it would be cool to do it again, but not something that the thought of is keeping Holmgren up.

That being said, the man still wants back in to coaching.

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He hasn't come right  and said it recently, but Holmgren has expressed a desire to get back in to coaching again. After getting let go at the end of the 2012 regular season he said he would be open to talking about returning to coaching if anyone is interested.

Was anyone? Was the deal not right? Did the team need too much of an overhaul? Did no one come calling?

I don't know, but from a recent comment he made considering his tenure with the Browns it sounds like he is still interested in a return to the sideline.

When talking about the Browns recently he said this:

"I really just should have coached the team, but (former owner Randy Lerner) didn't want me to," Holmgren recently told TheMMQB.com's Peter King.

On one hand you could take that as someone just wishing he had done something differently. However, if you like to read in to things (and who doesn't on the World Wide Web?) it could mean a whole lot more.

He's thinking about coaching. That's why he's talking about it. If it wasn't on his mind when Peter King asked if he had any regrets he probably would have said something like 'losing' or 'wasting a first round pick on Brandon Weeden.'

If someone called him today or tomorrow or the next day he'd be back in a heartbeat. The earliest he could get a call will be next January, but by than he'd be 66 and 67 by time the next season started.

Than again, there have been coaches his age before...

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