Seahawks Blog

Coach Mike Holmgren was asked about the punishment enacted against the Patriots for filming the hand signals of Jets defensive coaches. Specifically, he was asked if the $750,000 in fines and forfeiture of draft pick(s) was appropriate. His reponse:

"Yeah. I think it was a lot of money and draft choices are very, very important to every team. The commissioner had to make a decision, he made the decision. The only thing I want to say on that whole thing is from what I've read and heard, you know, too often a comment is made that, 'Well, everybody does it.' Well that's not true. That's flat not true. Everybody doesn't do that. I don't us as an organization or me personally to get lumped into that kind of thinking because we don't do that. The rules are rules, and play by the rules."
--Mike Holmgren