CHawK247":7rxg1zdw said:
No way Jose!! We have no idea how "tense" he made the locker room.
Hey im glad things worked out the way they did. But Lets look at Percy's perspective for just a sec.
Since college he's been known as fragile. And right after signing a huge contract and becoming the "missing" piece to a great team..he gets injured! Embarrassing much!?
So what can you do but rehab and make the most outta your chance when you get back on the field..which he did. His first play back he had an amazing catch before being bountied by the saints. Then when he comes back in the SB he plays lights out. Nobody in the leauge runs harder than him. Execpt #24 and AP.
JS said himself he was shoppin him before the season started. But how much of that was just 19million $ in regret? Would he have done the same if it was only 6 or 7?
The pressure of staying healthy and living up to his contract, and you only touch the ball on Bubble screens and Jet Sweeps! Its like we were trying to injure him. Anybody would be frustraded.
The moment we made him our focal point we were doomed. We turned the season around by getting our boys back healthy, RW using his legs to make up for poor line play, and not forcing bubble screens to a guy everyone and their mama knew was going to get the ball.
1. Harvin did not have an amazing catch when he came back. The only amazing thing about it was that he caught it more than 5 yards beyond the LOS.
2. Against the Saints Harvin would not have caught ANY of the passes thrown to him, so even IF they were going after harvin he still was not doing a good job at catching the ball which is important for a WR.... In the super bowl he did have a couple good plays, but his best play (a return TD on a blown punt) came after the game was already over.
3. Harvin is fast, but he doesnt run any "harder" than anyone as fast as him. He does have above-average acceleration for speedy WRs though.
4. The Hawks could only run bubble screens and sweeps with him because (shocker) Harvin sucks major gator balls at running routes. He also struggles catching in traffic and jump balls and basically anything beyond 5 yards. The Hawks couldn't put Harvin in any traditional packages except as a decoy and (shocker) Harvin was a lousy decoy unlike what his fans claimed.
The Hawks COULD NOT run their normal offense effectively with Harvin on the field so they could: a) try to run the percy harvin offense and hope to get something in return for him, or (b) keep harvin on the bench and make him the most expensive bench warmer ever while 95% of hawk nation stupidly thought Harvin was good and would revolt.