Unapologetic Percy Harvin: Why I fought Seahawks teammates
When Doug Baldwin and Golden Tate weren’t getting the ball in practice, Harvin said they’d protest. If you all were already doing this, imagine what we could do with me in there!’ But I just kept getting, ‘If he comes back, he comes back. “I think his role in Seattle and my role in Seattle were different, so there was no need for me to be jealous”, Tate told reporters Monday. I wanted to win a Super Bowl that year and that’s all I wanted, that’s all I cared about.
“I know it didn’t work out with the Vikings, the Seahawks or the Jets, so I hope the best for him up there in Buffalo”. Harvin said that frustrated him because they were his teammates, but he tried to force a relationship with them that wasn’t there.
Harvin whereas the three have been teammates in Seattle-the brawl with Tate occurred earlier than the Tremendous Bowl.
Harvin won’t relive the details but ex-teammate Michael Robinson later admitted that he needed to break up a fight between Harvin and Tate. But Harvin missed almost all of his first season with the Seahawks, playing in just one regular-season game after undergoing hip surgery on August 1. I felt like they were acting like kids. “I haven’t played with him in, I guess, going on two years now”.
Harvin advanced his remarks Sunday in an interview with The Buffalo News, calling out Baldwin and Tate for their lack of maturity toward Harvin.
Tate, of course, is alluding to the allegations that Harvin is a “problem” in the locker room, which have followed him in each of his NFL stops. But he also took a subtle shot at Harvin, listing off all the teams that Harvin had run through in the past few years.
Harvin goes on to explain that Baldwin and Tate went out of their way to make him feel unwelcome by publicly claiming that the receiving corps would be just fine with or without the oft-injured Harvin.
“After the Super Bowl, we were – he was giving, ‘All right man, good game”.
Tate says he was mostly friendly with Harvin in Seattle, and the pair got together after visiting the White House following their title.
“I said, ‘I understand the message you’re trying to get out but I’m your teammate”. “There’s some things in there I think – I don’t think everything in that was totally true”. One report said he body-slammed Tate, many others that he gave him a black eye.
The Seattle Seahawks greatly boosted their passing attack this offseason by trading for superstar tight end Jimmy Graham, who is clearly the favorite to lead the team in targets after hauling in 85 receptions in 2014 for the fourth straight season.