Matt Hasselbeck
Matt Hasselbeck
Matthew Michael Hasselbeck is a former American football quarterback and current analyst for ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 1998 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. After a season on the practice squad and two seasons backing up Brett Favre, he was traded to the Seattle Seahawks in 2001. Hasselbeck led Seattle to six playoff appearances and a Super Bowl. He was selected to three Pro Bowls and was an All-Pro in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth25 September 1975
CityBoulder, CO
CountryUnited States of America
I can think of a lot of great quarterbacks that never won the Super Bowl. It's not something that I'm hung up on.
We fizzled when we got in the red zone. That hasn't been characteristic of our team. That's not us.
We weren't worried at all. All year we have had guys step up when players go down.
You have to know where he is on every play. Every play.
We went 8-0. We were the team that never punted. You can go back and see the trophy. It's printed on there.
You feel like you're getting worse as a player. You can't throw a spiral, and you can't throw a 5-yard pass that you could throw as a 9-year-old, because you're thinking about too many things.
We didn't know much about them and they didn't know much about us; it was a challenge in that way,
Boring is probably not the word. Frustrating is probably a better word.
At the snap of the ball, they are moving. They are like missiles. They are hitting their gaps, they're hitting their holes, and they're getting to where they are supposed to be, their correct assignment. When you watch them on film, they look like a Super Bowl-caliber team.
Whatever we may have lost in talent, we gained in accountability and professionalism and leadership.
Throwing mechanics, shoulder posture, my drop ? little things like that. Right now in camp it still feels like I'm confined and working on stuff. My feeling is, hey, these guys know what they're talking about. I'm buying in 100 percent to what they're saying. Don't ask questions. Come September, your mechanics will be better, you'll be a more accurate passer, and because of that your team will be better.
We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.
We raise that flag before the game, and some people might not understand it. It's something I didn't understand at first. But it means something to people. It means something to our team, it means something to our coaches, it means something to the people in the city. I mean, the thing's hanging from the top of the Space Needle right now.
More than anything, you're just trying to execute each play as it's called and have good tempo, have good rhythm, have good enthusiasm.