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Why did Ron Wolf let Mike Holmgren get away?

Ed from Ledgewood, NJ

When Mike Holmgren left Green Bay, he was basically handed “the keys to the car” in Seattle. Why wouldn’t Ron Wolf have had conversations with Mike about additional opportunities in the next few years in Green Bay? Mike could have had the same dual roles eventually given to Mike Sherman. This total sequence of events never made sense to me.

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