Matt Hasselbeck has been out of football since 2015. However, Hasselbeck told Kevin Clark of The Ringer that a contending team apparently called him with interest this season.

Uh, what?

We have to define what a “contending team” is, because if Hasselbeck is talking about a team like, say, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Jaguars certainly were not contending this year.

Hasselbeck, now 43 years old, has not only been out of football for four years, but he has not played a full season since 2011, his first year with the Tennessee Titans.

The Westwood, Ma. native, who played his collegiate football at Boston College, was originally selected by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round (187th pick overall) of the 1998 NFL Draft.

Unfortunately for Hasselbeck, there was a guy named Brett Favre playing quarterback for the Packers at that time, so Hasselbeck barely saw any action in Green Bay.

He then ended up moving to the Seattle Seahawks in 2001, where he actually earned a job as the team's starting signal-caller. Two years later, Hasselbeck was in the Pro Bowl after throwing for 3,841 yards, 26 touchdowns and 15 interceptions while completing 61 percent of his passes and registering a passer rating of 88.8.

Overall, Hasselbeck made three trips to Honolulu during his Seahawks tenure, and during the 2005-06 campaign, he led Seattle all the way to the Super Bowl, where it ultimately fell to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Hasselbeck quarterbacked the Seahawks for 10 years before spending two seasons with the Titans and then heading to the Indianapolis Colts for the final three years of his career.