Matt Hasselbeck and Mike Holmgren to go into the Seahawks Ring of Honor

The Seattle Seahawks will induct head coach Mike Holmgren and quarterback Matt Hasselbeck into the Ring of Honor, this year. Holmgren will be inducted on Seattle’s Halloween night game, Oct. 31, at halftime against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Hasselbeck’s induction will be one week earlier on Oct. 25 against the New Orleans Saints.

The duo led the team to their first-ever Super Bowl appearance in 2005. Both have been recipients of the Seahawks Steve Largent Award, Holmgren being the first-ever coach to win it.

Matt Hasselbeck

Hasselbeck was originally the sixth-round pick of the Green Bay Packers. After three years behind Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre, he was traded to Seattle. The trade included a first-round pick swap and a third-round pick. When Mike Holmgren left the Packers for the Seahawks, he later acquired Hasselbeck from his former team.

In 2003, he took over as the full-time starter for the Seahawks. Leading the team to a 10-6 record and made his first of three Pro Bowl appearances. In 2005, Hasselbeck had his most productive season. He led the Seahawks to the number one-overall seed in the NFC with a 13-3 record. After dominating in the playoffs, the Seahawks made it to the Super Bowl where they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Ultimately Hasselbeck would spend another five years in Seattle before signing with the Titans for the 2011 season. In his ten years in Seattle, he started 131 of the 138 games he played. He would finish with 74 wins, 174 touchdowns, and 29,434 yards passing. All of these were franchise records until current Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson broke them.

Mike Holmgren

Following the 1998 season, Holmgren stepped down from his coaching responsibilities in Green Bay to become the Seattle Seahawks executive vice president/general manager and head coach. In his first year, he broke the Seahawks’ 10-year playoff drought.

However, it would be another four years until the team reached the playoffs again in 2003. And they would make the playoffs for the next five years straight, from 2003-2007. The best year for the Seahawks under Holmgren came in the aforementioned 2005 season. That season the Seahawks relied on a balanced offensive scheme, led by the MVP running back Shaun Alexander. In the playoffs, they defeated the Washington Redskins and defending NFC champs the Carolina Panthers. After losing to the Steelers 21-10, the next two years the Seahawks would fall in the divisional round of the playoffs.

Holmgren is from the Bill Walsh coaching tree. He served under the legendary coach as quarterback coach and offensive coordinator. Together in San Francisco, they won two Super Bowls, XXIII, and XXIV. In 1992, Holmgren took over as Packers head coach and begin cultivating his own coaching tree. He has helped develop an extensive list of coaches such as Ray Rhodes, Steve Mariucci, Mike Sherman, Jim Zorn, and Super Bowl-winning head coaches Andy Reid and Jon Gruden. Holmgren is also known as a quarterback whisperer. After working with legendary quarterback Joe Montana, Holmgren has gone on to develop Steve Young, Brett Favre, and Matt Hasselbeck.

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