TUESDAY MORNING RB - Matt Hasselbeck joins us to look at Wild Card weekend, share playoff memories and lessons from church
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This is "Tuesday Morning Running Back" with Matt Forte and special guest Matt Hasselbeck for January 13, 2026
Topics:
-Texans/Steelers recap (01:23)
-Matt Hasselbeck joins us (13:48)
-Patriots/Chargers recap (29:40)
-Caleb Williams/Bears insight (31:55)
-Eagles/49ers recap (42:30)
-Hasselbeck's Super Bowl experience (46:36)
-Praying when disappointment comes in the NFL (49:31)
-What we learned at church (1:01:23)
-Divisional Round playoff picks (1:12:05)
-Matt's big announcement (1:16:53)
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I don't play for the fame, I play for the king |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, every step on the field let the heavens ring |
| 0:07.0 | Got Jesus in my heart so I run with a purpose |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, this is sports spectrum |
| 0:13.0 | Faith on the surface, uh, I don't play for the crowd, I play for the king |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, every rap, every drill I give every day From the locker room peers to the lights that gleam. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | We raise his name, uh, welcome to the team, huh, uh, uh, uh. |
| 0:29.6 | And now, here's your host, former NFL pro role running back in Chicago Bears legend. |
| 0:35.6 | Matt Forte. |
| 0:36.6 | Uh, uh, uh, what? running back in chicago bears legend matt forte uh huh yes sir this is sports spectrum here with |
| 0:45.6 | matt forte and my guy jason romano tuesday morning running back and uh man crazy week of football again |
| 0:51.4 | and uh monday night playoffs i don't like it, Matt. I don't like it. They shouldn't be a Monday night football playoff game, but here we are. Recording right after the game. You know, the way these TV contracts go, we got to stretch it as long as possible. And it's, you know, you got game streaming on, on Amazon. You got game on ABC on Fox. |
| 1:12.8 | It's everywhere. |
| 1:13.4 | It's insane. |
| 1:14.3 | So I can imagine what the future would look like. |
| 1:16.6 | But has Aaron Rogers played his last football game? |
| 1:20.4 | I don't know. |
| 1:21.3 | But I'm, you know, I was actually rooting for CJ, young quarterback, and a great defense. |
| 1:27.7 | And also a guy that I played against D'Amico Rines as a young head coach with the Texans to take down some of the, not old guys, but I mean, Tomlin long-tenured, 19 years or something like that with the Steelers and then a 42-year-old quarterback and Aaron Rogers. |
| 1:43.7 | But I don't know. What are you thinking, Jason? You think the way Air A-Ride is, is this, you know, the last? And also, I think you mentioned, we off-air, could the last play of his career be a pick-six? Yeah. I mean, they took him out after he threw the pick six and houston dominate like |
| 2:01.6 | their defense that's another story we can get to real quick with you but uh they played so well the texans |
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