Matt Hasselbeck Playing Quotations

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.

We have been in the newspaper for playing football and not other stuff. That wasn't always the case last year.

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

It obviously helps playing at home with our crowd into it the way they were today.

That's unfortunate because, in the biggest game of your life, you want to play with the balls you've been playing with all season.

Obviously, when those guys are playing well, it makes my job easier. The system that we have here, it's just able to click when those guys are doing their jobs.

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.

For Darrell, the next step will be taking on a real leadership role with the younger guys, ... He's playing about as good as anyone can play.

I think the biggest thing was how well our defense was playing and how our crowd was into (the game).