Posted by ESPN.com's Matt Mosley
Seahawks wide receiver Bobby Engram slipped into the team's facility early Tuesday morning and slipped a typewritten note under coach Mike Holmgren's door. This is probably the most professional manner in which a player has ever blown off voluntary workouts.
Engram, regarded as a team leader, chose this course of action because he wants a raise. He thinks he outplayed his contract when he made 94 catches last season, but that's not the Seahawks fault. Call me old-fashioned, but when a man signs a two-year contract, demanding a raise after the first year doesn't see appropriate. The good news is that Holmgren seems to be taking Engram's "threat" pretty seriously.
"I kind of enjoy that," Holmgren said of Engram's letter. "It means he graduated from college and he can type."
I'm glad Engram received some strong typing instruction in college, but I picked up my "elite" skills under the watchful eye of Mrs. Godwin in seventh grade. She used a combination of speed drills and music from the Judds. To this day, the song "Grandpa" pops into my head on deadline.
