VID: Ep. 1 Pete Holohan - Former NFL Tight End/Notre Dame & Hoops Star Ep. 1 Pete Holohan - Former NFL Tight End/Notre Dame & Hoops Star 870 views Jul 18, 2017 Pete Holohan is the son of a World War II father who won a purple heart and bronze star. Pete played football at Notre Dame and for 12 years as a tight end in the NFL. In this episode of MoMotion, I talk with my cousin Pete about being recruited by Jim Boeheim, what it felt like to play in big bowl games, and life in the NFL where he played behind the great Kellen Winslow. Pete reveals the truth behind the concussions, cortisone injections, as how much grit it took to achieve excellence. He also discusses how his athletic experiences have helped him transition into his career post-football. https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100583#msg-1100583Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:16:28 -0400 Phorum 5.2.18 https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100612#msg-1100612 What a KILLER snowball effect. You could argue that Holohan leaving hurt for 8 years!https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100612#msg-1100612 Ramgator RamsFootballFans.comMon, 10 Jun 2024 19:27:41 -0400 https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100610#msg-1100610 Podcast: Rams Uncensored Ep. 27 Pete Holohan & RuffSkunk612https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100610#msg-1100610
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Tommy, Mark and Brian are joined by former Los Angeles Ram Pete Holohan, on this episode of Rams Uncensored. Pete offers his insights regarding the team from and his thoughts on training camp. He shares his experience of the legends hangout. Pete also took the time to mention how the franchise is doing a great job bringing back former Los Angeles Rams. Pete also shares that Henry Ellard was greatly underrated and talks about his chemistry with Jim Everett. Holohan also speaks about his uncensored vocabulary on the field. He shares his thoughts on how the roughness has changed for the necessary, but loves the old days. The guys finish their conversation with Mr. holohan predicting what the Rams record is going to be this year. After, Ruff Skunk (AKA Paul) joins and the @#$%& talking commences. Tommy asks Paul the person he most has a problem with on Twitter. We learn Paul’s story on how he became a fan of the Rams and how cool it is to have the Rams back in Los Angeles. The guys all plan a party for the Rams game in Arizona, and they finish off the episode asking Paul his prediction for the Rams season. All that and more on this episode of Rams Uncensored.]]> Ramsdude RamsFootballFans.comMon, 10 Jun 2024 18:57:06 -0400 https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100609#msg-1100609 Article: Interview With Rams Great Pete Holohanhttps://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100609#msg-1100609
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by Brian Joanou
December 9, 2017
in Los Angeles Rams, National Stories, NFC, NFC West
Reading Time: 4 mins read

“If you were to say at the beginning of the season week 14 would feature two of the best teams in the league with the Rams and Eagles, people would have said you were crazy,” says Pete Holohan. Heading into week 14 the Rams currently sit at 9-3 and a top of the NFC West, with a huge matchup against the 10-2 Philadelphia Eagles. I had an opportunity to speak with former Rams great tight end, Pete Holohan about the current Rams team, and more specifically the tight end position.

As a collegiate athlete coming to the professional game at tight end, there is a huge learning curve. I asked Pete why the transition is such a tough one? “You have to line up on the line of scrimmage and learn all the blocking assignments and then just the speed of the game is tough to adjust to. The biggest adjustment is run blocking, there isn’t a lot of tight ends in today’s game that can block and catch.”

Holohan was traded to the Rams in 1988 in a move that followed Ernie Zampese who he had previously played for with the San Diego Chargers. Quickly he became a reliable target for Jim Everett. When Holohan was traded to the Rams Everett was a young quarterback in the league. You always hear about people saying tight ends are a young quarterback’s best friend? “Especially on third and short plays, the quarterback needs to get the ball out of his hand fast and having a tight end to rely on really helps a young quarterback move the chains.”

The Rams currently have two young tight ends in Tyler Higbee and Gerald Everett. Higbee is in his second season and Everett is a rookie. How do you see the Rams utilizing the tight end position this season? “I see the Rams using Everett like how I was used,” says Holohan. “The Rams really like to get Everett out in space and use him as a pass-catching tight end. Once he gets used to the speed of the game and learns to block more he will really open things up in the play-action game.” He also thinks Higbee has made a nice jump between year one and two, being able to block and be productive in the passing game.

Digging through Holohan’s career I noticed that he took a big jump in production in year three and four of his professional career. What was it about year three and four that really clicked for you? “Those years are big threshold years for a young tight end, in year one and two you really are learning the offense and the speed of the game, not to mention the veterans are getting a lot more snaps so you spend a lot of time on the scout team, but in year three a light bulb really went off for me and if you can’t contribute by year four you are really going to have a hard time keeping your job.”

The last time the Los Angeles version of the Rams made the playoffs, Holohan was playing for them in 1989. Do you see any similarities between the 2017 Rams and the Rams teams you played on? “I can definitely see similarities. Both teams were running state of the art offenses, although this year’s Rams team runs the ball better than we did. We really ran the ball so that we could pass and in McVay’s offense you know he wants to pass the ball. Obviously, they were two different schemes, but both teams had a lot of success.”

With the Rams having so much success in year one of the McVay era, I was curious to why Holohan thought the Rams were doing so well? “The biggest thing is the team had early success and the team really believes in themselves. The team has overcome adversity with losses to the Seahawks and Vikings and really bounced back well and that is huge for such a young team.”
The Rams are really doing well at winning the fan base back in Los Angeles and Holohan is excited that the team is home in Los Angeles where they belong after such a long time away. “The Rams are really iconic in Los Angeles and if you win the fans will show up” says Holohan.
Rams Outlook

This Sunday against the Eagles the Coliseum will be sold out and fans will be in for a special treat to watch two of the best teams in the NFL matching up in week 14. Holohan will be with the family rooting on the Rams. This is a special season for the Rams and longtime Rams fans who have suffered through a lot of losing seasons. Things are trending upward for the Rams, and with each passing day, the Rams tight ends are getting better. Undoubtedly, leading to greater things for this young team. So, buckle your seatbelt and hang on tight, the Rams have arrived, but you have yet to see their greatest hits.]]> Ramsdude RamsFootballFans.comMon, 10 Jun 2024 18:53:17 -0400 https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100608#msg-1100608 Article: The ‘H’ in H-Back: Does It Mean Hold On Tight? : Rams: Jim Price plays the modified tight end position with grit, and he might make a name for himself in the mold of Pete Holohan.https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100608#msg-1100608
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Jim price just wasn't the answer

Speaking of Price...

The ‘H’ in H-Back: Does It Mean Hold On Tight? : Rams: Jim Price plays the modified tight end position with grit, and he might make a name for himself in the mold of Pete Holohan.

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By JOHN WEYLER
Aug. 22, 1992 12 AM PT

TIMES STAFF WRITER
ANAHEIM —

H-back. It doesn’t sound too scary. It’s not like the coach said, “We want you to play nose tackle .” But the guy who plays this modified tight end position for the Rams always seems to end up sandwiched between a linebacker and a safety immediately after catching a pass.

Jim Price has paid the price all right. Last year in San Francisco, he caught a pass and took a shot from Dave Waymer’s helmet to his lower leg. When he rolled over, he noticed the bone was trying to push its way through the skin above his ankle.

He left this year’s exhibition opener in Seattle after getting a concussion while grabbing an 11-yard touchdown pass on a play he can’t remember. At the moment, he’s sporting a huge red-blue-black-purple-and-green badge of courage on his hip, the result of a collision--he can’t remember which one--with a Raider while catching five passes for 40 yards.

What adventure in modern medicine awaits tonight when the Rams meet the Green Bay Packers?

But on the positive side, Price’s catch-it-and-get-it-and-hang-on style has the normally taciturn Chuck Knox on the verge of gushing.

“He’s had some tough catches in there, where it was bang-bang,” Knox said. “You catch it, and then you’re getting drilled. He’s got a great feel for the passing game. His blocking has improved. He’s been playing very, very well.”

Wow, two verys .

“It’s just a matter of concentration,” Price said. “Of course there are times when you’re not going to hang onto the ball. But I just go out and try not to worry about getting hit because you’re going to get hit anyway.

“If I’m going to take that kind of punishment, I’m going to get a reception out of it.”

Price, a free agent from Stanford who spent 1990 on the developmental squad, was just starting to dance to the Rams’ passing-game choreography last year when he suffered a fractured right fibula during the third quarter against the 49ers on Nov. 25.

He already had five catches for 65 yards in that game, and in the seven games before the injury, he had caught 30 passes for 353 yards. He missed the last four games of the season after undergoing surgery and finished third on the team in receiving with 35 catches for 410 yards and two touchdowns.

“Jim (Everett) was starting to look to me a lot,” Price said. “It was pretty bad timing, but that’s football. It’s the kind of thing almost everyone can expect to happen sometime in their career. Hopefully, I got mine out the way early.”

Actually, it’s not completely out of the way yet. Price thinks he may have pushed off that ankle too hard too many times in his attempt to come all the way back this summer. He’s had a couple of setbacks in training camp and says he’s still about two weeks away from being 100%.

“It feels pretty good, but I don’t think it’s quite strong enough for all the pushing I’ve been doing on it,” he said. “I think once we get back into a one-a-day program, it will be fine.”

Completely healthy or not, Price has picked up where he left off last winter. Last week against the Raiders, he caught five passes, all for first downs, three on third-down plays.

“One of the reasons they have me here is because they know that on third-down situations, I can get open, catch the ball and keep the offense on the field,” Price said. “Especially around the goal line, you know, finding the holes in the zone and turning around and catching the ball.”

He is making so many clutch catches that the inevitable comparisons to the revered Pete Holohan are surfacing. Holohan, who went to Kansas City via Plan B in 1991 and now is with Cleveland, was the Rams’ No. 1 go-to guy in critical spots.

“They’ve been together for a while now, and I think Jim Everett is starting to perceive (Price) as that kind of guy,” offensive coordinator Ernie Zampese said. “Now, whether he actually ends up having the same confidence in Jim Price that he had in Pete Holohan depends entirely on Jim Price and how well he continues to make the tough catches that allow you to make the first down and keep the ball.

“So far in the preseason, Price has done very well in that area. And he made some of those catches last season. If he can do that over a long period of time remains to be seen. (Everett) has to know he’s going to make that catch every time, whether he’s hurt or tired.”

Everett, who rooms with Price on the road, prefers not to compare his former favorite target to the player who is bidding to become his new favorite.

“Pete Holohan has been gone from this offense a while, and Jim Price does his own thing,” Everett said. “He’s growing into his own mold. He does some things differently than Pete does, but he does play that type of role, and he does it well. He can catch the ball in traffic.”

Price, however, has absolutely no qualms about being mentioned in the same sentence with Holohan.

“I like that stuff,” he says, smiling. “He’s a great guy and a great football player. If I can stay in the league as long as he has and have the kind of success he’s had, then I’ll be happy.”

He also hopes to develop an on-the-field rapport with Everett that will pay off as handsomely for him as it once did for Holohan.

“It takes time,” Price said. “It’ll be at least a year or two before we’ll both be totally in sync. But when it happens, it’s going to be a good tandem. I see myself catching 50 or 60 passes this year, at least.”

Zampese wants to make sure that Price remembers one factor that is very important to the Ram offense: blocking. If Price doesn’t block, he doesn’t get the chance to catch passes.

“We’ve always known he has real fine hands,” Zampese said. “He’s been able to catch the ball ever since he got here. H-back is a very important position in our scheme. That position gets a lot of balls in our passing game, but it’s equally as important in our running game. The H-back assumes the fullback’s blocking responsibilities on runs, and you know how important the fullback’s block is to a successful running play.

“Jim can certainly improve in that area. I think a lot of times guys who see themselves as pass-catchers tend to let the other slide a little. But Jim’s big enough and strong enough and certainly a good enough athlete. He’s got the body control and the athletic ability to be a fine blocker. I think it’s just a matter of him knowing how important it is in his own mind.”

Price admits he needs to improve his blocking techniques, but there’s no reason he can’t excel at that part of his job, too.

Heck, he ought to enjoy the chance to knock the other guy down for a change.]]> Ramsdude RamsFootballFans.comMon, 10 Jun 2024 18:49:31 -0400 https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100605#msg-1100605 When he left Everett was never the same IMHOhttps://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100605#msg-1100605 joram RamsFootballFans.comMon, 10 Jun 2024 18:43:02 -0400 https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100590#msg-1100590 1 of my Favorite TEs he was always Enthusiastic & had Very Dependable Hands was Clutch !https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100590#msg-1100590 BerendsenRam RamsFootballFans.comMon, 10 Jun 2024 17:16:03 -0400 https://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100583#msg-1100583 VID: Ep. 1 Pete Holohan - Former NFL Tight End/Notre Dame & Hoops Starhttps://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,1100583,1100583#msg-1100583
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Pete Holohan is the son of a World War II father who won a purple heart and bronze star. Pete played football at Notre Dame and for 12 years as a tight end in the NFL. In this episode of MoMotion, I talk with my cousin Pete about being recruited by Jim Boeheim, what it felt like to play in big bowl games, and life in the NFL where he played behind the great Kellen Winslow. Pete reveals the truth behind the concussions, cortisone injections, as how much grit it took to achieve excellence. He also discusses how his athletic experiences have helped him transition into his career post-football.



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