Former NFL star reveals the one thing he would have done differently in Seahawks' Super Bowl XL loss

When the Seattle Seahawks instrumentality the tract against the New England Patriots connected Sunday, it volition beryllium their 4th Super Bowl appearance.

The franchise’s archetypal quality came successful 2006 successful Super Bowl XL, arsenic backmost Matt Hasselbeck led them to a 13-3 grounds successful the regular season. However, the Seahawks’ archetypal travel to the large crippled did not spell arsenic they hoped, arsenic they mislaid 21-10 to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

In that game, Hasselbeck completed 26 of his 49 passes for 273 yards with 1 touchdown and 1 interception. In a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital, the 50-year-old said determination is lone 1 happening helium would person done differently.

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Seattle Seahawks backmost (8) Matt Hasselbeck warms up earlier the Super Bowl XL against the Pittsburgh Steelers astatine Ford Field successful Detroit, Michigan, connected Feb. 5, 2006. (Matthew Emmons/USA TODAY Sports Copyright © 2006)

"I don't deliberation there's thing that I would person done otherwise different than possibly not losing my poise. There were a mates of calls successful the crippled that didn't spell our way, and I mislaid my chill connected the referee and didn't regain my poise by the clip the 40-second timepiece had, you know, it was clip to drawback the adjacent play," Hasselbeck told Fox News Digital successful a caller interrogation with the Family Heart Foundation.

"So, I did propulsion an interception connected that play that I'm talking astir and past I made the tackle connected that interception and past I got flagged again for making the tackle which, you know, that's a full (other thing) I got adjacent much upset."

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Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck (8) of the Seattle Seahawks throws a walk successful the 2nd 4th against the Chicago Bears successful the 2011 NFC divisional playoff crippled astatine Soldier Field successful Chicago, Illinois, connected Jan. 16, 2011. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

The three-time Pro Bowler said that helium learned the acquisition of conscionable taking things astatine a time. That acquisition from the Seahawks’ Super Bowl nonaccomplishment didn’t conscionable assistance him arsenic an athlete, but besides a father.

"If thing successful your caput (that's) ridiculous happens, determination on. And truthful I deliberation that's thing that's helped maine surely arsenic an athlete, it's helped maine arsenic a dad. You know, you get successful the car, my kids would archer you, you get successful the car aft a sporting lawsuit with me, you are not allowed to speech astir the referees. You tin speech astir immoderate you privation to speech about, but you're not talking astir the officials. Not doing it. And it's a acquisition I had to larn the hard way," Hasselbeck said.

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Former Seattle Seahawks backmost Matt Hasselbeck greets fans earlier the NFC Championship crippled against the Los Angeles Rams astatine Lumen Field successful Seattle, Washington, connected Jan. 25, 2026. (Jane Gershovich/Getty Images)

While the Seahawks did not triumph Super Bowl XL, they returned to the Super Bowl successful the 2013 season, and trounced the Denver Broncos 43-8 to seizure the franchise’s first-ever title. They made the Super Bowl the pursuing season, against the Patriots, but mislaid 28-24 arsenic Russell Wilson was intercepted connected the extremity enactment by Malcolm Butler to seal the loss.

Now, the latest iteration of the Seahawks hopes to bring the franchise’s grounds successful Super Bowls to .500 and get revenge connected the Patriots for the heartbreaking decision from implicit 11 years ago.

The Seahawks play the Patriots astatine 6:30 p.m. ET connected Sunday.

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