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WR Santonio Holmes (Super Bowl XLIII MVP)

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Santonio Holmes: Hey what's going on? Happy to be hear to answer your questions, so let's get it started.

Henry (Buffalo): what's your favorite thing to do outside of playing football?

Santonio Holmes: Right now, I like to spend time with my puppy. I just got a grey pitbull and I just sit at home and play with him.


Kevin (Virginia): How do you guys try to combat the Ravens defense?

Santonio Holmes: Well Kevin, they first thing that we will try to do is attack the weak part of their defense. Next, our playmakers will have to step up and make big plays.

Lisa (TN): How big will homefield advantage play in this game?

Santonio Holmes: Home field advantage is like having a 12th man, especially on defense. It allows the sense of extra security.

Andy (Denver): I have a feeling it's going to be cold on Sunday. How will you guys deal with the weather during the game?

Santonio Holmes: We know the circumstances and we just have to be tough guys and tough it out. I does help that we have heaters and heated benches on the sideline.

Steiny (NYC): You played basketball in high school. Did you ever want to play in the NBA?

Santonio Holmes: Going into my 8th grade year, I broke my leg. After that I lost all my confidence and football became more important.

Gary (Phoenix): Everyone keeps calling Ravens-Steelers a rivalry. But is it really a rivalry if you guys keep beating the snot out of Baltimore?

Santonio Holmes: (laughing) It's always going to be a rivalry. You always look to see who's going to beat the snot out of who and that's why it's a rivalry.

Burwell (Addison, PA): Thanks for chatting Santonio! Have you guys been doing anything differently this week to prepare for Baltimore, or is it just business as usual?

Santonio Holmes: It's still business as usual. We are just correcting the thing that we need to be corrected.

Robert (Latrobe, PA): Santonio, how has Hines Ward helped you in your development? I can't think of a better guy to help a young player learn the position.

Santonio Holmes: He took me under his wing and allowed me to play within myself and play the way I play on the field. Hines is a smart guy that knows everything about the offense. Us younger guys have learned a lot from him.

Santonio Holmes: Oh and just for fun we like to call him Pappa Smurf.

Jon(College Park, Md): What do you feel is the most important thing the offense needs to do to establish itself early in the ball game? And no, an 80 yard TD bomb to you doesn't count :)

Santonio Holmes: (laughing) We just need to play within our offensive game plan. If we do that, then hopefully everything will work out for the best.
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Bull's-eye on Holmes?
His disputed game-winning touchdown reception against Ravens was one of his many big plays this season
Friday, January 16, 2009
By Chuck Finder, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Matt Freed/Post-Gazette

Santonio Holmes returns a punt back for a touchdown in the first quarter against the Chargers Sunday.

Santonio Holmes still hasn't crossed that line. No, not that goal-line. Officials in M&T Bank Stadium declared him over that plane Dec. 14, even if the Ravens and Baltimore fans aren't over his game-winning touchdown reception with the clock showing :43 -- which just so happens to be the upcoming Super Bowl's designation.

Rather, by all accounts, he hasn't crossed the line that might prompt the Ravens to put a bounty on him. Early in the season Baltimore's Terrell Suggs bragged that the Ravens put bounties on Hines Ward and rookie running back Rashard Mendenhall during Pittsburgh's 23-20 overtime win at Heinz Field on Sept. 29. During that game, Ray Lewis' hard hit gave Mendenhall a season-ending shoulder injury. Mendenhall had angered the Ravens by saying beforehand he anticipated having a big game.

"No, I doubt that," Holmes, the Steelers' second-leading receiver said, yesterday about the Ravens possibly targeting him. "I've been asked interview questions over the phone. They've asked me where do I think I stand against this defense on having a bounty out. They said I'm probably one of the last guys that [the Ravens] worry about. No one in particular said it, but that was just the quote."

So you heard it here first. Sort of.

After all, the 5-foot-11, 189-pound, third-year receiver known as Tone made that catch in the final minute of Game 14 an indisputable point. The rest, about whether he actually broke the plane on that 4-yarder and capped the 12-play, 92-yard, last-ditch drive in what became a 13-9 Steelers victory, Ravens folks may argue.

Holmes won't.

Yes, he reiterated, he did know at the time where he stood, on the precipice of the end zone. He made the reception moving forward for a reason, too.

"I felt as if [had] I caught the ball and fell backwards, one of those guys probably would have hit me in the back and jarred the ball loose," Holmes explained. "So I tried to stay away from them, avoid contact."
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Glades Central grad Santonio Holmes makes name for himself with Pittsburgh Steelers
By BRIAN BIGGANE
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 15, 2009

As preparations for Sunday's AFC Championship Game wound down Thursday, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and Belle Glade native Santonio Holmes was thinking back to another playoff game, this one seven years ago between Glades Central and Jupiter.

"I didn't catch a pass, but I did have seven pancake blocks," Holmes recalled by phone from the Steelers' locker room in Pittsburgh.

"It's a game that stands out," said Willie Bueno, who coached Holmes and the Raiders but has since moved on to American Heritage. "He was the leading receiver in the county that year. He didn't have a catch, but he was just as excited about making those blocks.

"I saw then he was an unselfish guy, one who would do whatever the team needed to win."

The receiver Bueno called "as good as anybody I've ever seen" went on to star for three years at Ohio State before becoming the Steelers' first-round pick in 2006. Last Sunday he set a record for the longest punt return in franchise playoff history, going 67 yards to tie the game in the first quarter as Pittsburgh rolled to a 35-24 divisional playoff win over San Diego.

After breaking out in his second NFL season in 2007, Holmes, 25, played more of a secondary role behind veteran Hines Ward this year. But Holmes had his moments as Pittsburgh won the AFC North title and advanced to Sunday's third showdown against division rival Baltimore for a shot at the Steelers' second Super Bowl appearance in four years.

"Week in and week out, I've been making at least one splash play the team recognizes," Holmes said.
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"He was a captain for us, and always a leader,'' Bueno said. "Coaches need top players they can go to when they need to get a message across to the team. He was good that way. And he always had positive things to say around the team."

Then-Florida coach Ron Zook wasn't recruiting the Glades area when Holmes in school, so he chose Ohio State, where his receiving corps also included the Dolphins' Ted Ginn Jr. and Indianapolis' Anthony Gonzalez.

"He had a lot of raw talent when he got here," Buckeyes receivers coach Darrell Hazell said. "But he always worked and listened, and got better day by day. He'd do a lot of the little things you want to see in a receiver: creating separation, keeping his hips up the field, running sound routes."

Hazell said he had no second thoughts when Holmes entered the NFL Draft after his junior year.

"He was one of the best of that class. He knew enough mentally to handle it, and he's as physically gifted as I've seen."

Hazell said Holmes, a 5-foot-11, 189-pounder, has the "complete game.''

"He's great on the slant pattern, and you have to be tough to go inside like that and catch it in traffic,'' Hazell said. "He's also got the speed to go by guys. And he's the best blocker I've seen by far since I've been coaching receivers."
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Glades Central grad Santonio Holmes makes name for himself with Pittsburgh Steelers
 
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buckeyes_rock;1384920; said:
Ah yes! And the dive into the endzone reminded me of him doing the same to scUM a few years back! :wink2:
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It's his signature entrance... other notable entries:

(7:00 in 04 UM vid)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaaRXmBxshE]YouTube - Ohio State vs. Michigan 2004 highlights[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcd15QcQK1I]YouTube - Santonio Holmes Ends Bengals Season[/ame]

Oh and here's a real man of genius:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=396T-CPqi-A]YouTube - Santonio Holmes in the 2006 NFL Draft[/ame]
 
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Jason Taylor went to Akron. Antonio Gates went to Kent too.. as a basketball player.

There are a couple solid players from Ohio schools.. Dave Zastudil from OU and Trent Cole from Cinci.

Holmes is turning into quite a good WR. A lot of fun to watch.
 
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