![]() ![]() When we would do red-zone installations, instead of him teaching Brett, he’d say, ‘All right, Hassel bock’ - he couldn’t pronounce my name - ‘you install it!’ So I’d be there teaching it to Brett, and that was funny because Brett already knew it better than anybody.” “I remember when I was Brett’s backup, and Mike McCarthy was our quarterbacks coach,” Hasselbeck said. ![]() Although Hasselbeck wasn’t overly impressed with what he saw from Hundley last Sunday, he’s confident that Packers coach Mike McCarthy will have him prepared. Matt Hasselbeck began his NFL career in that Green Bay system, and backed up Hall of Famer Brett Favre. They’ll incorporate his legs … He is going to make some heroic plays with his legs.” But there will be some things that will be better with Brett Hundley. So they’re not going to run the same Green Bay Packer offense they ran with Aaron Rodgers. “It will be infinitely better this week, because there will be an adaption period. There’s going to be some, ‘Holy smokes! I gotta go in!’ All of a sudden you’re looking around and trying to find your helmet. “And Hundley is also part of that shock wave. “With Aaron Rodgers and his mastery of that offense, the confidence he instills in everybody, there’s some shock that goes into it when you lose him,” Neuheisel said. He looked pretty rough in last Sunday’s 23-10 loss to the Vikings, with his three interceptions overshadowing his one touchdown. Hundley certainly made his share of great plays at UCLA, where he was recruited by Rick Neuheisel and played for Jim Mora. Many quarterbacks who were riding the bench stepped up and have done some great things.’ I think that’s what’s going to happen here. People are like, ‘Ugh, the season’s over.’ I say, ‘No. I think we need to, as a community, get behind him. 7 jersey, and I’m wearing it on the field,” said Jim Schmitt, mayor of Green Bay. Packers nation holds its collective breath. “This week I’ve had a whole week of preparation,” Hundley said, “and we’ll have some fun, I’ll tell you that much.” Green Bay is tied with Minnesota for first place in the NFC North at 4-2. Hundley will get his first NFL start Sunday when the Packers play host to New Orleans. It’s unclear whether Rodgers will be able to return this season, as he did after missing seven games with a similar injury in 2013. Those questions are bouncing around Green Bay this week, with Hundley, a former UCLA star selected in the fifth round of the 2015 draft, trying to fill the cleats of Rodgers, a two-time NFL most valuable player who suffered a broken collarbone in Sunday’s loss to Minnesota. But for everybody else … they were questioning.” So you had two of the best quarterbacks of all time, and now all of a sudden there was this guy was a Bay Area guy but people didn’t know him, wasn’t drafted, came from Canada, and now all of a sudden he was the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers? “As much as it was a great opportunity for me, there was pressure … Before Steve, there was Joe Montana. “For me, stepping onto the field all of a sudden, having limited repetitions in practice with the starters, mostly running the scout team, it was really trial by fire,” Garcia said. No leisurely ramp-up, no perfecting his craft and holding a clipboard on Sundays. Then, three games into the 1999 season, Young suffered what would be a career-ending concussion, and Garcia was rushed into action. ![]()
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