I’m tired of defending him, of pointing to his past to attempt to mask the filth he has been producing on the football field.

No matter what we try and rationale with as a fan base, it just isn’t 2007 anymore for Matt Hasselbeck.

He is a mere shadow of what a veteran quarterback with his experience and his former success should be even in the latter stages of his career.

It’s fully evidenced to me by his play against a team he used to have no problem beating the pulp out of that it is time to part ways with him.

If you look at the first quarter of this 2-2 season, Hasselbeck has really only had about a ten minute stretch of really good football when the Hawks had a nice run and broke it open against the 49ers.

In the other home game against the Chargers, he was barely marginal leading an offense that almost got doubled in production by the opposition.

He can thank Leon Washington for the bail out.

Barely average at home, depending on a pair of special teams touchdowns to provide a crutch so he can look like he did something constructive.

On the road? You might as well flip it and throw Chris Spencer under center; it couldn’t get much worse.

One touchdown, four interceptions, an average of 212 YPG, and a porous 55.1 QPR.

He was the sole reason for the loss to the Denver Broncos; if you flip the pair of interceptions he threw near the endzone and turn them into touchdowns, the score is suddenly 28-17, not 31-14.

The problem is not the offensive line either, as they are averaging a pair of sacks allowed per game, that’s not great, but it’s solid enough protection that a veteran thrower like His Backs A Hassel should be able to make good decisions.

It’s sad to say, but he is the best quarterback on the roster, and as much as he needs to take a backseat so Pete Carroll can break in his franchise quarterback, I think the Seahawks are worse with Charlie Whitehurst at the helm.

Something needs to spark, or the Seahawks need to entirely cut bait with this train wreck of a decision maker and let him be someone elses issue.

In hindsight, they should have sent feelers around the league to gauge his value on the trade market with his contract being up after this year.

Now that the opportunity to trade him has likely come and gone, the only way to minimize his ineffectiveness is to feed the rock to the only consistently productive player on this offense.

Justin Forsett.

Through four games he only averages 14 touches a game, but averages 4.2 YPC and 4.7 per touch.

If you give this guy the rock 25-30 times per game, based on his average yards per touch he would be good for 129 yards average per game (variable of course).

Even at his YPC average of 3.7 against the Rams today, 30 touches is good for 111 yards based on that average.

I had no expectations coming into the season, and after seeing them handle the 49ers and Chargers, I got a little trigger happy and maybe fathomed the fact they could slide into the post season by default of winning the NFC West with a 8-8 record (Pete Carroll is cackling somewhere as he proves us all wrong).

Based on our play on the road, we are going to have win all, and I mean all our home games because were not going to win on the road at all on this pace.

Our remaining home contests are against the Panthers, Chiefs, Giants, Falcons, Rams, and Cardinals.

More then one loss at home puts a fatal dim on any playoff chances.

Can we have faith in what we have as our football team Seattle?

Only at home it seems.

Can we have faith in Matt Hasselbecks ability to play quarterback in the NFL?

Not even in another uniform.