We hit the superfecta on Monday, meeting with Mike Holmgren for his weekly postgame press conference, then hooking up with Walter Jones, Lofa Tatupu and Matt Hasselbeck in the locker room after. Holmgren was the least interesting so I will save him for last.

Hasselbeck said he is hoping to play again. He said he was more hopeful than realistic that he could play last week, but the team's medical staff told him that Wednesday he was probably not healthy enough to play. He said he did not know specifics of what is going on, but they basically said that a disc takes longer to heal and this one does not have the time to heal during a football season -- particularly with the types of hits he took in the Dallas game.

This was interesting: Matt said there has been a discussion of him shutting it down for the rest of the year, and if he did that he would be fully healthy by Valentines Day. So I asked him if he plays again, does that mean he will be healthy by the Ides of March. He said it was too difficult to predict, particularly since he does not know what kind of hits he will take between now and then. But he has ruled out surgery.

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Here is a really well-done slideshow of the game put together by our multimedia department. If you get the chance, make sure you look at picture No. 10, of Julian Peterson about the avalanche Matt Cassel. It's a nice shot.