Seahawks coach Jim Mora knows Michael Vick well, and has started rumors by not discussing the status of the quarterback. Vick was released from a federal prison on Wednesday and will serve the final two months of his 23-month sentence for running a dogfighting ring at home. The two spent time together in Atlanta, and many have found it strange that Mora declined to discuss his former Pro Bowl quarterback.

Seahawks receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh has yet to play a game for the team, but is already predicting big things for the club in 2009. "We're going to be good," Houshmandzadeh told Mitch Levy on KJR-AM on Tuesday morning. Levy questioned the remark, and Houshmandzadeh took it a step further. "Real good," Houshmandzadeh said. "Everybody stays healthy, ah man. We're going to be something special. The talent we have on this team and then coach Mora brings everything together just right. Cool dude. Not because I just got there, but everything I've seen from Jim Mora has showed me that we're going to be really good just the way he relates to the players. The other coaches he has on the staff, Greg Knapp, ah man, I couldn't believe it. Just being around him the short period of time I've been around him, I'm surprised his name hasn't been brought up for a head coach. "Gus Bradley wants around the building with a smile on his face. High energy. We're going to be good. I can't wait to smack some people in the face. They didn't put us on TV so when we start running through everybody like a wet paper bag, don't flex us in late in the season when we're the best. "Don't flex us in, we'll have our coming-out party in the playoffs." Seattle was 4-12 last season.

Former Packers and Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren said on Tuesday that he wants to return to football in 2010. "(I'll) take the year off and after next season is over, I plan to go back to work," Holmgren said. "But where and in what capacity, that is really pretty vague. I don't know. "But I know this. I want to do something. That is pretty much a given." Holmgren was referring to whether he'd return to coaching, or join a team in the front office.

Seahawks wide receiver Nate Burleson is practicing just eight months after undergoing reconstructive knee surgery. "I feel like I always have, like I'm the same player," Burleson said after he ran pass routes effortlessly. He took part in three days of organized drills on the field with quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, the new coaching staff and the rest of the Seahawks. "Of course, I'm not going to be 100 percent yet," Burleson said, wearing a black brace over the knee. "The last couple of days, I've got to be honest, there was some doubt in my mind, but right now I don't feel my knee hurting. This week has proved to me the rehab is working."