Percy Harvin doubles down on comments about his Seahawks’ tenure

Percy Harvin recently made some remarks to the Buffalo media about Tate saying he was “jealous” of him and that Tate acted “like a kid” when the two played in Seattle together for one season in 2013.

Harvin also acknowledged his reported locker room fight with Baldwin.

After trading Harvin to the Jets, Seahawks’ head coach Pete Carroll said that he “couldn’t make it work for our team and our players”. “It was something that got under my skin. I felt like they have been appearing like youngsters”.

And that carefully considered response?

“There was never any jealousy on my end”, Tate said, via the Detroit Free Press. “But like I said, I wish the best for him”.

None of this is hard to believe given that Baldwin and Tate both have reputations for being dipshits, but it’s important to remember how one-sided this telling is, and that the guy who fought with two teammates on two separate occasions may not be the most trustworthy source.

Just five games into the 2014 season, after failing to find an ideal role for him on the field and multiple altercations with teammates, the Seahawks decided to part ways with the talented but troubled Harvin after just 19 months, shipping him to the New York Jets on October 17, 2014 for a conditional draft pick. We’re glad to have him back, ‘ ” Harvin said. Things escalated in the run up to Super Bowl week. When Doug Baldwin and Golden Tate weren’t getting the ball in practice, Harvin said they’d protest. Harvin said that frustrated him because they were his teammates, but he tried to force a relationship with them that wasn’t there. He alluded to Baldwin’s temper, which we all saw during the playoffs last season when Baldwin went ballistic on some reporters. So me coming in took reps from them. “They wanted to show they were already established having made it to the NFC Championship the year before I got there”.

Tate, though, says that’s hogwash.

Harvin declined to discuss the details of the fight with Tate but did talk about rumbling with Baldwin during the next year’s preseason.

He says he was caught off-guard by Harvin’s comments this week. I want to see everybody ball out.

“I know my quarterback”, Slay said. I want to see him ball out, personally. “There’s some things in there I think – I don’t think everything in that was totally true”.

Where did those comments come from? “I think he’s kind of had it unfair, I guess, and he’s trying to fix his image, and he just wants to tell his side of the story. It got messy. And I think what happened was the best for me”.

Harvin’s career has nosedived since the trade.

“His mind traces back those practices 2,600 miles away in Seattle when Harvin played for the Seahawks”.