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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck watches from the bench in the third quarter of the Seahawks' 44-6 loss to the New York Giants in an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008.

RENTON, Wash. - Status quo for Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. Still no practice. Still on for Sunday's game against Green Bay.

The only thing that changed for the three-time Pro Bowl passer on Thursday from Wednesday was the color of the team cap he was wearing -- conspicuous neon green instead of blue. He again stood and watched practice with a black wrap over his bruised right knee.

One day after coach Mike Holmgren said Hasselbeck "has to play" for the Seahawks (1-3) against the Packers (2-3), third-string quarterback Charlie Frye again ran the offense. No. 2 quarterback Seneca Wallace is out indefinitely with a calf injury.

Offensive coordinator Gil Haskell reiterated that Hasselbeck will play even if he doesn't practice Friday, but Haskell would prefer that the No. 1 quarterback get one day of work in this week with a jumbled receiving corps.

Haskell was asked if Seattle's starter since 2002, who set most of the team's passing records for a season in 2007 but is the NFC's lowest-rated passer this season, is one guy who doesn't need to practice to play.

"No, you're never there as a quarterback, because it's the rhythm," Haskell said. "Especially now, with the new receivers."

Seattle had six wide receivers hurt through last month. Deion Branch is out indefinitely with a bruised heel. Koren Robinson had a second consecutive good day of practice and says his sore knee feels better than at any time since he signed last month. He may make his season debut against the Packers, for whom he played in 2006-07. Robinson was smiling Thursday over the recent birth of a baby girl.

Bobby Engram will play in his second game of the season with Keary Colbert and Billy McMullen also in prominent roles. The latter two signed last month.

"I think every team knows that they're going to face adversity at some point and ours came just right at the beginning," Hasselbeck told reporters in Green Bay this week.

LAST HURRAH: Holmgren and Haskell arrived in Green Bay in 1992, then Haskell rejoined Holmgren's staff in Seattle in 2000. Together the two friends from their 1970s days as high school coaches in San Francisco are 1-4 against the Packers, including playoff losses in 2004 and last January.

Holmgren is in his 10th and final season with the Seahawks and has said he will be taking a "sabbatical" from football in 2009. That means Haskell is likely in his final season as Seattle's offensive coordinator. Current defensive backs coach Jim Mora figures to bring in his own man -- possibly Greg Knapp, his former offensive coordinator in Atlanta who is now with Oakland -- when he replaces Holmgren.

Yet Holmgren and Haskell aren't admitting to nostalgia over a likely final game against Green Bay.

"No," Holmgren said. "The game is special because we've got to get going here.

"I always felt a little bit more emotional about the game -- I couldn't explain why necessarily -- when we traveled and played them back there. The memories, you go drive down the street or go see a restaurant or do something. The game here in Seattle was more of another football game than when we went back there. It's been a while now. I've been in Seattle longer than I was in Green Bay."

When asked if he'd thought about this being the last time he'd face the Packers, Haskell said: "You never know."

He said he thought the last time he'd see Lambeau Field was during a preseason game in 2007. So he went to the stadium's souvenir shop.

What'd he buy? A yellow, foam cheesehead?

No.

"When I got knocked out in '96 in Dallas (he got a skull fracture in a sideline hit by the Cowboys' Darren Woodson and spent two weeks in a hospital), I came back and Sports Illustrated wanted me to do a story and wear a cheesehead," Haskell said. "I said, 'Look it, if I put that on every guy in the bar that I've been going to since I was coaching high school will call me up and rip me a new one. I'm not doing it. I'm not wearing a cheesehead."

PUNTING WOES: Jon Ryan was stunned when the Packers waived him last month three days after the final cuts of the preseason. He has struggled since signing with the Seahawks in Week 2. His net average of 32.2 yards per punt is 14th in the NFC.

Packers coach Mike McCarthy said he released Ryan after two seasons because of a problem with accuracy. Seahawks special-teams coach Bruce DeHaven said that problem remains, compounded by issues with distance.

"Last time I looked we were still near the bottom of the league in punting, and that's not good enough," DeHaven said. "However he's been doing it has not been good enough. He's got to get better."

QUICK HITS: The Seahawks re-signed running back Justin Forsett, a star in training camp, to their practice squad. He was released this week by Indianapolis. They also added QB Travis Lulay to the practice squad, making Frye happy. Frye said he threw "over hundreds of throws, easy" Wednesday while running both the offense and the scout team. ... RB Matt Lawrence and WR Trent Shelton were released from the practice squad.