Dave Krieg came in hot out of nowhere and shined?
He was in the league for 4 whole seasons before getting the opening day starting job.
His rookie year he has 2 attempts in 1 game played
Second year started 3 games played in played in 7. 7 Tds to 5 Ints
3rd year 2 games started played in 3. 2 Tds to 2 Ints
4th year 8 starts and 9 games played. 18 Tds to 11 Ints
5th year is when he started as the main QB and had a good season. 12-4 record 32 Tds to 24 Ints.
Hasselbeck also became a full time starter in year 5. 10-6 record, 26 Tds to 15 Ints.
They both had 3 Seasons with 10+ wins.
Only 1 Won an AFC/NFC Championship and went to the SB.
Hasselbeck.
Before I go off here, I need it to be said to the heavens and the earth that I loved MH as the Seahawks QB. But he was still behind Krieg. How?
Well for starters, you cherry picked lots of TEAM stats and applied them as QB stats.
It's cool that MH won the NFCC game and DK lost the AFCC game, but that's not a QB stat.
What is a QB stat?
TD to INT ration? Yeah DK had some shitty seasons like a TD/INT at 7-5. Only Matt had 7-8 TD/INT a full year LATER in his carreer.
In their fourth years DK bested MH 18/11 to 15/10.
As careers go later years are obfuscated by strikes; MH was going to the SB when DK was growing a strike beard in the same trajectory.
That means lots of legitimate records died without having been born.
And even after all that MH NEVER bested Krieg's 32 TDs per season, and RW didn't either until the Seahawks were a spent force.
All of the records above should be noted that Hass had MH throughout (even his boot ass rookie yeara) and Kreig only got Knox in 83.
So yeah... Krieg is better than Hass. He just is. Hass was hella good too. It's just that Kreig was GOOD good on a team from South Alaska.