by John HickeyFiled under: Seahawks, NFC West
RENTON, Wash. -- Matt Hasselbeck will have to play with pain this week, and play the Seattle quarterback will.An X-ray taken at halftime of the Seahawks-Cardinals game in Glendale, Ariz., Sunday revealed an old injury and new ones -- two small cracked bones in his left wrist.
The injury came when he tried to run on fourth-and-1 for a first down and failed. He came out of the game for the final play of the first half and missed the first two series of the second half before medics were able to put his left (non-throwing) hand in a splint.
"It's likely a four-to-six week deal for the healing part of it,'' Seattle coach Pete Carroll said Monday. "But he'll be more comfortable with it if we can have good fortune with it and not (have him) banging it in the next couple of weeks. The first week is the most difficult.''
"He had an old injury that showed up in what we saw, but he had two little cracks in two different bones in his wrist there. They're just cracks, there's no surgery that's necessary. We took a really serious look to figure it all out, and (we) feel very comfortable with (the decision to let Hasselbeck play). He's going to be uncomfortable, you know, for awhile here.''
When Hasselbeck came back into the game after Charlie Whitehurst played as the fill-in, the offensive line and running backs stepped up and made sure Arizona's defense didn't put too much pressure on him.
And Carroll said more of the same is going to be necessary this week in New Orleans, which has one of the best defenses in the game.
"We had only one sack, and the guys together were able to deal with the rushes and pressures that they brought,'' Carroll said. "The running backs, Justin Forsett in particular, blocked really well. It was a contribution by a lot of guys.
"Matt has a knack for kind of keeping things moving and they don't get to take maybe their best shots at us when he's really got the rhythm sped up and all. So that helped.''
Hasselbeck will have the number of snaps he takes this week in practice severely cut back to limit the amount of pain he has to deal with. Although he doesn't throw with that hand, he does use it when handing the ball to running backs.
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