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 don't know if it was me. Those other guys stepped up. It was really a team win today.
I don't know if it was just because they were the heavy kids in the pool with their T-shirt on or what. But every team I've been on, those guys have been really, really close.
I don't know how to explain it other than we feel really good about what we are doing. We believe in the program. We believe in what the coaches are asking us to do and we believe in each other.
I don't know if I really have the words. Sometimes it almost doesn't seem real, and then other times it seems very real and you're looking at a very good Pittsburgh Steelers team. And that's real.
I don't know if I know anything different, really. I know when you have good pass protection, it makes your job so much easier.
I didn't know or wasn't willing to admit that. I learned the hard way.
I didn't read into it like other people did. Guess what? We're going to go out and try and win this game. Sorry, we're not going to just go out and lay down.
Honestly, we're going to be OK, we're going to get over this game. Hey, we had an opportunity to play better and to be world champs. We didn't play well enough to be world champs and we all know that. People will make excuses, saying, 'They got you on a trick play,' or, 'The officials called that and it looked like something else.' As players, we're not going to make that excuse. Our excuse is we didn't play well enough, period.
For our team, it was we should really just go out and play to make our parents proud, so to speak.
If he's healthy and can go, he's just another weapon for us. Another guy they can't leave by himself and if they do, Darrell will do what Darrell does.
He's a pro. He gets it, ... He doesn't panic in big-game situations.
He's a Pro Bowler now. He's so big-time that he's hogging interviews.
He's a pro and he worked hard. And I give him a lot of credit. We asked him to do a lot. He came through when we needed him.
He said basically, if you want to make it in this league, you have to forget all that stuff or you're going to end up like this guy, this guy and this guy who never made it because they couldn't handle it.