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
Our focus was on this year and this team. The team in this locker room is better than the one that played last year.
We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.
I know where Mike's coming from. He really wanted me to focus on what I could control. But the simple fact is those guys are very different, and I haven't played with them.
That sounds like a question that a bunch of sports writers sitting around a desk should discuss. I don't really have the answer to that question. I don't know. What I do know is that the more I focus on playing football the better I play. The better I play, the better I'll do in those kind of discussions down the road.
It is good to know that he is heading in the right direction, and we can focus on what we need to focus on.
We're a focused team right now. For the first time, you can say, hey, I know I can count on the guy next to me. That's definitely a good feeling.
At the end of the day, after all the distractions, after the national anthem, after the planes fly over - well, I guess there will be no flyover because it's in a dome. But after all that stuff, you just have to focus on playing a football game. Sixty minutes of the best football you could possibly play. That's what it's going to take.
I think we have a group that gets it more than we have in the past.
I think that gave us a lot of confidence, doing that on the road, at their place, a loud, hostile environment. I think that was a stepping stone for us, maybe a little bit of a confidence-booster for our team.
I think it's something I can deal with because it's my non-throwing shoulder. It feels really stiff right now because I just iced it.
It got to the point where I was taking chances - and that was a chance I shouldn't have taken.
It had to be 90 percent Steelers fans out there.
I think every team I have been on you have a group of guys that are really helping pull the team in the right direction. Then you have a couple guys that are pulling it in a wrong direction. Everybody else is sort of on the fence,
We played really, really well at times, ... It's just that we turned the ball over too many times.