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
We just didn't execute to the best of our abilities. That's why (Pittsburgh) is the Super Bowl champion, and we're not.
I don't know. We've got the Pro Bowl coming up, and maybe that will help get that bad taste out of our mouth. But right now this is tough to swallow.
We didn't execute to the best of our abilities, and therefore, they're the Super Bowl champions and we're not.
It really was a comforting feeling today having him get up and talk about, 'Well, when I was in this Super Bowl we did this. Then when I was in that Super Bowl we did this. He's got experience there.
Unfortunately, we didn't make the plays we needed to make. They played well on defense. We didn't execute to the best of our abilities today. Therefore they're the Super Bowl champs, and we're not.
They played really well on defense and executed well. We didn't execute to the best of our ability. That's why they're Super Bowl champs.
This looks like a much better Falcons team than we saw eight months ago. They look very impressive, and I'd have to say that they look like the favorites to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl right now.
This looks like a much better Falcons team than we saw eight months ago, ... They look very impressive, and I'd have to say that they look like the favorites to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl right now.
He's a Pro Bowler now. He's so big-time that he's hogging interviews.
We just had opportunities to score touchdowns, but we didn't score touchdowns. We were moving the ball fine, rhythm, time of possession, first downs, yards...we just couldn't score touchdowns.
We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.
We went 8-0. We were the team that never punted. You can go back and see the trophy. It's printed on there.
It was tough. There was a lot of stuff I'd never been through. I'd never really been the guy. I'd never had to play through injury. I really had never played in the NFL.
It was a one game deal here. We were talking about this game and this game only...I have learned this week that people dogged the Seahawks because they don't think there is history, but there is history here.