KIRO radio is reporting that Seattle head coach Mike Holmgren may be headed for the broadcast booth.

Holmgren told KIRO Radio Tuesday he's been talking with NBC about a possible role on playoff games and maybe the Super Bowl.

This would seem like a natural transition for the personable Holmgren -- the best coach I've seen in handling press conferences and dealing with the media.

Listen to Holmgren's conversation here.

OK, so here is the situation that Mike Holmgren finds himself in this week:

With only four days between now and the game against the Oakland Raiders, and his top three quarterbacks suffering some sort of injury, what does he do against the Raiders?

He certainly is not going to throw Matt Hasselbeck out there and risk having him injured just before the season opener in Buffalo. He does not yet know the severity of Charlie Frye's knee injury, though Frye said his knee was sore. And while Seneca Wallace played tonight, Holmgren said he did not even plan on allowing Wallace to throw a pass until they found themselves down by a point with 2 1/2 minutes left.

A lot of course will depend on what they say on Tuesday about Frye's injury and if that will restrict him. But it is an interesting question nonetheless: Who does Holmgren go with?

And before you say Dalton Bell, this was Holmgren's response when he was asked about playing Seneca late: "We didn't have any choice really. I wasn't going to put Dalton Bell in against them."

There are some stories of some far-flung Seahawks fans over at the Word on the Street blog

We had a pretty good response to Thursday night's call to readers looking for service members deployed overseas. It's not too late if you want to e-mail me at scott.fontaine@thenewstribune.com and add your voice to the chorus, but later today you can head over to the Word on the Street blog to hear from American soldiers in Iraq, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Honduras and a sailor stationed in the Persian Gulf.

I'll update this blog when I add one of their stories.

I don't necessarily agree with the premise of one of the folks who responded after I posted quotes following Saturday's scrimmage at Memorial Stadium, but it at least was the impetus for a conversation that affects the blog.

On Saturday, as I was writing my daily piece on deadline at KeyArena, the Seahawks emailed me the transcribed quotes from Mike Holmgren and Matt Hasselbeck. Because of time constraints, I simply cut-and-pasted the quotes in the blog without reading them, thinking folks on the blog would appreciate the full account of what happened from the coach and QB. Unfortunately, there were some mistakes in the transcription that made their way into other blogs as well.

The question we asked ourselves on Monday was should we just cut-and-paste quotes transcribed from the Seahawks directly into the blog? The Seahawks' take is that they do the transcribing for journalists, they are not meant for full public consumption other than what is chosen by the respective journalists to be placed in the paper, and they do not want to be held responsible for mistakes that inadvertently find their way into the transcriptions since they too are working on deadline with time as a factor.

After some discourse with Boling about responsibility and accuracy, we decided that we will post transcribed quotes when we can, but only AFTER we put a set of eyes on them and give them a thorough read for potential mistakes. What that means is that if we get quotes on deadline like last Saturday night, or presumably this Sunday night in San Diego, we will likely not be able to post them until after we have filed our daily stuff, or the next day.

Hope that helps explain the decision-making.

For years I've wondered why sports leagues didn't sell or re-air classic games in their original broadcast forms. NFL Network is doing just that through its new "NFL Classics" series. The network plans to show a memorable Seahawks-Packers playoff game Thursday night at 8 Eastern.

From a press release: "NFL Classics gives fans the rare opportunity to relive the Seahawks-Packers game as it aired on FOX in January 2004. The broadcast features the original announcers, Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Cris Collinsworth. A 52-yard interception-return touchdown by Packers defensive back Al Harris gave Green Bay a 33-27 overtime victory. Harris intercepted a pass thrown by Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who exclaimed after Seattle won the OT coin toss: "We want the ball, and we’re gonna score!"

The league and/or networks could presumably make some money marketing classic games to fans on DVDs or over the internet. I think they could sell entire seasons of teams' games. One question might be whether this would cannibalize the product, but I would think not. Anyone rabid enough to purchase an entire season is going to watch lives games, too.

DT Marcus Tubbs, rehabbing from microfracture knee surgeries, ran several hard sprints along the side of the practice field today. He had done some jogging last week. This was the first time we saw him run hard. He seemed to hold up well running roughly 40 yards at a time. The Hawks expect him back for training camp.

Note: We're still having issues with our comments feature. Hopefully that feature will be restored in the near future.

John McClain of the Houston Chronicle makes a mockery of the NFL's new online media policy in a video segment on his employer's Web site. The video shows McClain conducting interviews with a helper holding a stopwatch, the better to comply with rules limiting online content to 45 seconds per day. McClain rushes off as the league-imposed time limits approach, at one point leaving Texans owner Bob McNair standing by himself. McClain later admits that the video ran 15 seconds long, producing an apology designed to keep the league from rushing to Houston to shut down the Chronicle.

Funny stuff, and even funnier if you know McClain. We called him "The Mayor" when the Super Bowl was in Houston because John had so many connections in the city, and the league. He is past president of the Pro Football Writers of America and one of the more likeable guys in our business.

Did you hear about the Steelers coach who forwarded porn to NFL brass, their secretaries and commissioner Roger Goodell? The league is understandably upset about such a clear and blatant violation of its new policy limiting online pornographic videos to 45 seconds in duration. Hopefully we'll get an official statement from new league spokesman Clinton Portis.

One of the blogs I monitor has a few thoughts on the NFL's new policy that severely limits fans' options for accessing video and audio online. Terry Heaton of Audience Research & Development writes, in part: "The assumption you’re making is that if anybody wants access to your world, they must come through you. This is contrary to the cultural disruption that’s underway, and I think you’re underestimating it."

He adds, "Moreover, a second assumption is that if media companies want access to your fans, they’ll also have to come through you. This is probably the bigger of the two assumptions, because you believe that limiting access to eyeballs has value. This is called scarcity economics, and it just doesn’t work online."

We'll strike a balance between covering this issue and beating it into the ground. I wanted to pass along this perspective because it's from someone with considerable experience in the industry.

We received quite a bit of feedback about the new NFL policy all but preventing sites such as this one from uploading audio and video taken at NFL facilities. My initial analysis of this policy explained how this policy could have unintended consequences benefiting readers. It's a given that this policy robs fans of choices.

We uploaded extensive audio to this site so that readers could listen to interviews in full and make their own decisions about what coaches, players and front-office people meant. The league lacks the resources, instincts and motivation to be where independent reporters will be when gathering these interviews. Oh, the league will be there for some of them. But can readers trust the league to provide the same unedited, unfiltered content that an independent outlet would provide? Should readers be forced to trust the league on this?

This policy is not necessarily permanent. The league could be trying to take control of this issue in the short term. We'll have to see how it plays out.

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Cory Bergman, director of digital media for KING5.com and NWCN.com, calls the NFL's new restrictions on digital Web media a "huge blow" for TV sites. "Our only competitive advantage in sports coverage is video, and now the NFL has essentially yanked it," he writes on his blog, lostremote.

I still think information drives media Web sites, but perhaps that's just me. I'm looking over my laptop at an HD monitor playing a concert in digital surround. Waiting for a smaller, degraded image to load over a DSL connection that hasn't gotten appreciably faster in five years really doesn't strike me as progress.