Percy Harvin: Former Seahawks teammates were always ‘acting like kids’

He hemmed and hawed and laughed, and after 17 seconds of meaningful silence, Golden Tate asked the reporter to repeat his question.

Bills receiver Percy Harvin recently complained about a pair of former Seattle teammates who, according to Harvin, weren’t thrilled about the potential impact of Harvin’s arrival on their opportunities to catch footballs. “I think his role in Seattle and my role in Seattle were different, so there was no need for me to be jealous”.

“I was excited to get him on the field with us”.

Bills receiver Percy Harvin told The Buffalo News that Doug Baldwin and Golden Tate’s jealousy was the reason he never succeeded with the Seattle Seahawks.

I didn’t push Robinson for more because he clearly didn’t want to say things that would result in a barrage of incoming texts and calls from Harvin or Baldwin or Tate. “It was something that got under my skin”. “But every time, it seemed like they were hell-bent on saying, ‘We’re going to be this, whether he’s here or not.’ And it just kind of started rubbing me wrong because those guys, I felt, were my teammates, my brothers”.

“He’s trying to fix his image and he just wants to tell his side of the story”, Tate said. Harvin, for instance, got into a reported fistfight with teammates as a member of the Seahawks.

In a deep dive on Harvin, the talented but mercurial dynamo who is playing on his third team in less than a calendar year, Tyler Dunne wrote about the 27-year-old’s volatile 19-month tenure with the Seahawks, which ended when the team traded him to the New York Jets during the 2014 season. There were reports Harvin body-slammed Tate, while another said he gave him a black eye.

The two haven’t spoken since Seattle’s trip to the White House a few months after the championship game. First, he claims both players viewed him “as a threat, rather than a teammate”. “We shook hands, actually went out that night, chopped it up a little bit, hung out”. “I thought we had squashed it before he left”. I mean, there’s no hard feelings. “I know it didn’t work out with the Vikings, the Seahawks, or the Jets, so I hope the best for him out there in Buffalo”.

He’s a had good camp this year, too, including catching two balls for 57 yards and one touchdown in last week’s preseason opener against New York.

“I didn’t see that coming”, Tate said. But once Harvin is some combination of injured, unproductive, unjustifiably angry or not accountable, I think he’ll wear out his welcome in Buffalo even faster than anyone could expect.

Harvin alleges that Tate and Baldwin were threatened by his addition.

Harvin also is quoted as saying: “We all played the same position”.