Tim Hasselbeck

[Donn2390]

To be fair, I think if we would have had Hasselbeck for the year T-Jack started, we would have been much better off and would have made the playoffs. But I do like T-Jack as a backup.

To be even more fair. if T-Jack wouldn't have played injured most of the year, no telling how far we would have gone...

 

[Hasselbeck]

I have no idea how Tim Hasselbeck is a football analyst. Then again I have no idea how his wife is a political analyst either.

His brother runs circles around him.

 

[Missing_Clink]

Idiot Tim probably thinks Matt should have started the Super Bowl for us on Sunday. He is clearly butt hurt that Matt got cut

 

[LargentFan]

So wait...we aren't lucky to have Wilson?

 

[Scottemojo]

I saw the piece on ESPN too. Tim was definite in saying Seattle lucked into Wilson, in fact he said it on multiple shows. Day after the Bowl sour grapes were pretty plain.

He says the Hawks let Matt go because Matt "was 34 or whatever".

Matt was not a priority because he didn't protect the ball well enough. IMO.

 

[Bigpumpkin]

When I close my eyes and visualize Matt Hasselbeck during his last year here.....I see him being sacked relentlessly. There wasn't a question in my mind that Matt was in the twilight years of his career. The "strike" just put a new perspective into the minds of the Front Office. Matt wasn't the only player in the NFL that got the "shaft".

 

[Shock2k]

The butthurt about us letting his brother go in 2011 is still very strong in him. Today he was mentioning that Pete Carroll joined the team in 2010 and they went to the playoffs and then they got worse the next season which is totally untrue. We had the same record but clearly the 2011 team made significant strides to anyone paying attention.

He also said we "lucked" into Russell Wilson and that we wouldn't have signed Matt Flynn if we knew what we had. That is also untrue because we signed Matt Flynn well before the draft. We didn't have Russell yet.

I generally am okay with him but he almost seems more angry right now than he was in the first couple years following letting his brother go.

Actually he was right statistically (though it was a very slight drop). I put the stats together in another post. BUT, from that season on the rise in improvement was meteoric.

 

[Polaris]

I saw the piece on ESPN too. Tim was definite in saying Seattle lucked into Wilson, in fact he said it on multiple shows. Day after the Bowl sour grapes were pretty plain.

He came this close to outright saying this especially when he goes out of his way to say that he is Matt's brother.

Edit PS: He's (Tim) is wrong about us not signing Flynn had we known how good Wilson was. John DID have a pretty good idea how good Wilson was, but there was no guarantee we'd get him in the draft.....and TJax was clearly a failure as a starting QB (he's a great backup), and Clipboard Jesus failed completely to seize on his role as the only QB on Seattle's roster during the lockout....and Pete and John noticed. That was the end for Charlie Whitehurst.

He says the Hawks let Matt go because Matt "was 34 or whatever".

This is misleading at best and outright false at worst. Fact is the Seahawks wanted to keep Hasselbeck, but did not expect him to be the starter in three years....so they wanted what amounted to a two year deal. Hass considered himself a starter and wanted a firm three year deal. The Seahawks saw both the uncapped year and the lockout as an opportunity to get rid of a lot of dead cap space, and they weren't sold on Matt's future. So they gave Matt a final offer and they told him it was a final offer and he was told that if he didn't sign it by the lockout, that it would be gone with no assurances it would be offered again.

Pete and John meant what they said but Matt didn't believe it....until he found out otherwise the hardway. However even Matt admits that it wasn't like he wasn't told.

Matt was not a priority because he didn't protect the ball well enough. IMO.

This. It's also why Pete fired TJax as a starting QB after the 2011 season. Nothing gets Pete as upset as failing to take care of the ball, and Matt was a real Farve-like gunslinger in 2010...without Favre's arm or talent.

 

[DeathbyTalons]

I saw Tim's not so subtle bitterness on display as well. Look Matt will always be viewed at fondly by most 12's as he was the guy who got us to our first SB, went to pro bowls and played his guts out for us. At the time of the parting of ways, it was time to move on but that does'nt diminish his accomplishments or what he did for this team. If any of the past players 'deserve' a piece of this title, it's him. That said, his brother Tim? A journeyman who, unlike his brother Matt who embraced the cool laid back west coast attitude, is a bitter cynical easterner through and through. Learn from your brother Tim and stop being a hater.

 

[Throwdown]

Hasselbeck would've died in 2011 at the beginning of the year with that line while it figured its way through.

That being said, Hasselbeck was finished as a starter, behind an even worse line, TJack did just as good as Hass did the year prior and had less turnovers.

 

[lobohawk]

When I heard him say Seattle lucked into Wilson, I thought it meant Seattle was fortunate that Wilson was there to be taken. They needed a QB, Flynn probably wouldn't be the one, and if Russell Wilson wasn't available (playing baseball, etc) then Seattle may not have been in the position to get to where they did. So they were lucky that fate led Wilson to that point in time to be drafted by the Hawks. Not saying he meant it this way, just that's how I took it initially.

 

[birdman5]

Heed these words Tim, "The separation is in the preparation" and this one from the scouts, " be prepared". These are things that may have kept you in the league, snd now could make you a better analyst of it.

 

[Sarlacc83]

I don't know why he's mad. Matt earned 21 million from the Titans, which he definitely wasn't getting from Seattle. Is he mad that Hass wasn't the backup on this team, and as such, doesn't have a ring?

If that's the case, then maybe you should be mad about XL, bro.

 

[HawkRiderFan]

Hawks were no more "lucky" to land Wilson than the Pats were lucky to land Brady. But of course that gets attributed to Bilicheck's genious

 

[theENGLISHseahawk]

One of the more interesting pieces pre-Super Bowl was written by Matt Hasselbeck's close friend and former agent, Andrew Brandt. Here's a quote:

I admit to initial negative bias toward Carroll as a former agent and good friend of quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who was told by Carroll in 2011 that the Seahawks were “moving in a different direction.” Matt moved past that, however, so I have as well.

LINK: http://mmqb.si.com/2014/01/29/super-bow ... s-success/

Clearly there was some angst from the Hasselbeck camp to that decision, which is a little bizarre. Tim's recent chatter suggests it's perhaps not quite been 'moved' on as Brandt suggests which is a shame.

You cannot expect to last multiple regime changes as a 36 year old quarterback whose better days were long gone.

It's the Seattle Seahawks not the Seattle Hasselbeck's.

 

[IndyHawk]

So he says we lucked into Wilson..So NE lucked into Brady..SF into Montana ...

 

[hieroglyphics]

I dont care much for Tim or Matt's personality to be honest.

Same here. Matt wanted starter money for 2011, it's a good thing we had the more durable TJack who played much of that season with a torn pectoral muscle. Matt also didn't want to compete for a job he wanted to be the man, Pete had Whitehurst in the fold at that time, we signed TJack and Matt Leinart was also slated to compete for the job before he backpedaled and choose to become a backup in Houston.

Pete handled it well treating the outgoing QB with respect and I believe Matt did too but I always wonder if he doesn't have Tim's ear and he isn't bitter about how things ended. As for Tim he's a terrible hack who like Chris Carter shouldn't even have a talking head job.

So many Seahawk fans were hoping for us to draft Locker that season and for Matt to keep starting and mentor him, Matt ended up in that situation but with the Titans who have not thrived since 2011. I am so glad Pete have a different vision for what he wanted at QB and that they drafted Russell.

Locker would have been a disaster.

However, if he gets run out of town in Tennessee, I wouldn't mind him being backup QB.

 

[BlackDiamondHawk]

In my opinion T. Hasselbeck would not have had a tv commentators job without his wife's fame. His NFL career certainly didn't warrant it.

 

[DFWHawkFan]

If I recall correctly Matt turned down a contract offer from the Hawks before the strike. They could not come to an agreement because Matt wanted a 3-year deal at 6 mil per. The FO chose to let him walk after the lockout instead and sign T-Jack. So it's not like Seattle just kicked him to the curb without any warning or did him dirty. Matt chose to try and squeeze the franchise for extra cash after an obvious decline in his play. There is no reason for either side to be bitter here, as Matt had a terrific run in Seattle.

 

[HawkWow]

Tim is a poster child for what happens when you simultaneously abuse Viagra, Extenz and Rogaine.