Here is a little more about what Holmgren said regarding Alexander and others playing time:
Q: What is the scenario if he hasn’t scored after a few series and you have the ball at the goal line?
Holmgren: “I don’t know. Let me think about that one a little. I want him to get the record; we all want him to get the record. Green Bay, of course, is going to do everything in their power to win the football game and not give him the record. The most important thing is we have our guys healthy for the playoffs. If the situation comes up, I am going to have to make the decision at the time, just like whether to go for it on forth down or not.”
Q: Why are you playing Alexander?
Holmgren: “We are going to win the game. The game is important to us, and all season long I have preached that we play the game a certain way, we practice a certain way, and we try and set a standard of play. I don’t look at this game, even though I have the luxury of substituting some of our young guys in there. I want out starters to play and I want them to play well and I want them to move the football. That’s what they have been doing all year, so we are not going to do anything different now. Just that now I have the luxury of, at some point, putting the younger guys in there.”
“Happy New Year everybody. It’s going to be a little bit of a different game because we are going to probably substitute pretty liberally in the game. (Andre) Dyson will not even travel. (Marcus) Trufant will not travel. Some of the other fellas, I will have to see. If they are injured we are going to try and get them well, obviously, for the playoffs. As far as everyone else, we are just going to start who we normally start. How long they play, it will be a little bit of a feel thing for me during the ballgame. We have talked about it as a staff, I am not going to go into great detail on how I am going to do that, but we are going to substitute a little bit.”