Former NFL General Manager Ron Wolf still likes to inject himself from time to time into the post-Ron Wolf NFL.  In his most recent effort to remind folks that he was once relevant to the game, Wolf throws the head coach with whom he brought the Lombardi Trophy back to where it belongs under the proverbial bus.

Specifically, Wolf blames Mike Holmgren for the Packers’ failure to win a second straight Super Bowl, to cap the 1997 season.

Wolf told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in August that the Big Show failed to make adjustments to account for a blitz-happy Denver defense.

“Certain calls were to be made that weren’t made,” Wolf said.  “Mike Holmgren refused those calls.  There would have been an adjustment on the blocking scheme and it would have been over.

“One of the great things about playing the game of football is you have to adjust.  When you fail to adjust in critical situations you’re going to lose, and that’s what happened here.  To be pig-headed about it, I mean, to have the answer and then not apply it, that’s a little different.”

Wolf claims that he knows about the refusal of Holmgren to adjust because two Packers coaches told Wolf so.

“I found this out about four years ago,” Wolf said.  “Two people told me about it that were in a position to know.  I could tell you who they were but they wouldn’t tell you.  They were coaches.”

So why is Wolf still thinking about it a decade later?  “I’m probably still not over it.  It’s like a dot in history now, and one of the teams was a one-year wonder.  But for somebody to bring it up and explain to you what could have been done and what should have been done, it rekindles the fire every once in a while.”

Wolf expressed the same sentiment on the night that the Packers lost to the Broncos:  “We’re a one-year wonder, just a fart in the wind.”

For his part, Holmgren didn’t respond to an interview request.  We have a feeling, however, that he won’t be silent once he sees what Wolf had to say.

The balance of Bob McGinn’s article delves into the he-said/he-said debate as to whether the Packers properly addressed the blitz.  But the most stunning revelation remains Wolf’s decision to publicly blame Holmgren for the team’s failure to win a second Super Bowl.  It comes off as petty, even if Wolf is right.