olyfan63":1h4hqhm8 said:Hasselbeck":1h4hqhm8 said:HawkGA":1h4hqhm8 said:sc85sis":1h4hqhm8 said:He spent the vast majority of his career leading this team and was the QB for the team's first Super Bowl. He deserves to retire a Seahawk if he so wishes.
Not sure I'd say he spent the vast majority of his career here. His starting career, yes, but he's closing in on about half of his career being in Seattle and the other half being elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hasselbeck
That's not really relevant though. Who thinks of the years Hasselbeck was a 3rd stringer in Green Bay, and backup in Tennessee (short time starter too) and Indy?
Would be like considering Brett Favre a Falcon or John Elway as a Colt
Or Joe Montana as a Kansas City Chief. (Though he did take KC to a playoff appearance or two and maybe even a playoff win IIRC)
I wouldn't put Hass in the same category with those other Qbs. But I wouldn't consider him a QB for any of those teams either, especially since he was just a backup. Just sometimes I think we let emotions cloud out facts. 10 years out of 17 does not, for me, count as a vast majority. It counts as a little better than half. The VAST majority of Montana's career and Elway's career and even Favre's career was spent with one team. One way to look at Hass is that Seattle was the only team he could qualify as a starter in.