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WHOOPS
Nov 6, 2009

indigi posted:

players who are legit locker room cancers or bad team players almost always have stuff come out about them while they're on the team(s) that trade them, not in the week before/after the trade. they also usually make a rear end out of themselves in the media at some point. I don't recall anything like that happening with Harvin, and I doubt two organizations could/would organize that kind of media blackout.

like, even the Desean Jackson comparison doesn't make sense cause he'd been called out in the media before for being selfish, being a bad teammate, associating with "thugs" (whether it was true or overblown or not). Yes it got ratcheted waaaay up last offseason, but it didn't come out of nowhere.

Harvin absolutely had stories written about him being a pain in the Vikings locker room well ahead of his being traded. No one here faulted him for it, though, because the other side of the argument were Brad Childress, Rock Spielman and Leslie Frazier.

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WHOOPS
Nov 6, 2009

Ozu posted:

lol. Seriously, this is the kind of beat writing NY fans have to deal with.

It's like a perfect marriage of a player with baggage and writers willing to milking any narrative possible.

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