{"id":28311,"date":"2014-10-18T10:18:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28311"},"modified":"2014-10-18T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:18:11","slug":"percy-harvin-traded-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/18\/percy-harvin-traded-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Percy Harvin traded &#8230; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin was apparently unhappy in his new home of Seattle, so Seattle traded him to the New York Jets, along with his pricey contract. This isn&#8217;t the first time Harvin&#8217;s been unhappy enough to force his team to trade him: that&#8217;s the blueprint of how he left the Vikings. Harvin is a very talented receiver &mdash; when healthy &mdash; but he seems to be unable to get along with authority figures like head coaches. Even head coaches who are widely known to be easy to get along with, like Leslie Frazier and Pete Carroll. Harvin reportedly threw a weight at one of the assistant coaches early in his career with the Vikings, and gave Golden Tate a black eye during Superbowl week with Seattle. One wonders what he&#8217;ll manage to do to destroy the chemistry (such as it is) with his latest team. <\/p>\n<p>At the <em>Daily Norseman<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynorseman.com\/2014\/10\/17\/6996415\/seahawks-trade-percy-harvin-to-jets-vikings-trade-harvin\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Glover<\/a> reviews the [head]case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To say this came as a surprise is an understatement, and it makes me wonder that if Harvin can&#8217;t play for two of the most player friendly coaches in the NFL in Leslie Frazier and Pete Carroll &#8230; how will he be able to fit in with Rex Ryan? And if Harvin wasn&#8217;t happy in Seattle, where he won a Super Bowl and has one of the best young quarterbacks in the NFL throwing to him&#8230;how in the blue hell (as Fearless Leader would say) will he get along with Geno Smith and the talent wasteland that is the New York Jets offense? Yeah, Geno is an upgrade over Christian Ponder from his Minnesota days &#8230; but the Jets have literally nothing else in terms of offensive weapons, and a pretty bad offensive line.<\/p>\n<p>And Geno&#8217;s not all that much better than Ponder, so yeah. I just see this as another train wreck already in the making, but who knows, stranger things have happened.<\/p>\n<p>So with Harvin now on the Jets, let&#8217;s take on final look back on the trade that got this all started. In March of 2013, the Vikings sent the disgruntled but ridiculously talented Harvin to Seattle. In return the Vikings received Seattle&#8217;s first and seventh round pick in the 2013 draft, and their third round pick in the 2014 draft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Apparently Percy Harvin punched Golden Tate last season. But really, who hasn&#39;t wanted to punch Golden Tate at some point<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Grave Raspookyo (@DrawPlayDave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrawPlayDave\/status\/523249090495139840\">October 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vikingsterritory.com\/2014\/analysis\/2014-new-york-jets-seattle-seahawks-trade-percy-harvin-to-jets\" target=\"_blank\">Arif Hasan<\/a> at <em>Vikings Territory<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Seahawks evidently wanted to make this trade for a while. One interesting thing about the trade: Seattle will eat a significant amount of cap space from a trade, perhaps up to $9.6 million in accelerated cap (the combined cost of the future impact of the prorated salary bonus he received).<\/p>\n<p>In all honesty, I can\u2019t really say with confidence what the biggest reason for the Harvin trade was, though I have to imagine it\u2019s more attitude than talent. Pete Carroll was enamored with Percy Harvin coming out of Virginia back when Carroll was at USC. The talent Percy had that made him a first-round draft pick and an early MVP candidate in 2012 is still all there.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not inconceivable that it\u2019s for football-only reasons\u2014he took up $13.4 million of cap space on a young team looking to sign new contracts, and was going to take up $12.9M and $12.3M in the following years. While he was taking all that cap space, he grabbed 133 receiving yards and 92 rushing yards for 45 yards from scrimmage a game. There are about 66 players with more, including Jerick McKinnon and Cordarrelle Patterson\u2014both acquisitions made as a result of the trade the Minnesota Vikings made with Percy Harvin (McKinnon with a pick received directly from the trade and Patterson as a replacement).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Always come back to this: Percy Harvin was banned from playing all high school SPORTS here in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Harmon (@MattHarmon_BYB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattHarmon_BYB\/status\/523235743364161536\">October 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Here are two tweets I just got from NFL personnel guys: \u201cLiterally heard minutes ago what you tweeted. Crazy. Jets didn\u2019t do their homework&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lance Zierlein (@LanceZierlein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LanceZierlein\/status\/523243839704666112\">October 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Also got this text minutes ago: \u201cSeattle just suckered the Jets. That GM is clueless\u201d.  Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lance Zierlein (@LanceZierlein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LanceZierlein\/status\/523243969426100225\">October 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin was apparently unhappy in his new home of Seattle, so Seattle traded him to the New York Jets, along with his pricey contract. This isn&#8217;t the first time Harvin&#8217;s been unhappy enough to force his team to trade him: that&#8217;s the blueprint of how he left the Vikings. 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