Spielman Says The Vikings Will Make Harvin Situation Work
At the moment, all seems well on the Percy Harvin front if you are a fan of, say, any of the other 31 teams in the NFL.
Us Vikings fans, however, we know better than to get comfortable with anything. To us, if something looks stagnant, it is probably a ticking time bomb. Like how nice that big inflatable roof looks? Like the enthusiasm coming from the guys in that huddle… all twelve of them? Like your chances on this Gary Anderson field goal attempt?
So, yeah, when sites like PFT or ESPN declare the Percy Harvin storyline “dead” all we Vikings fans are really going to do is sit on the edge of our seats and wait for this thing to blow up.
Rick Spielman, however, wants us to know that Percy Harvin’s previously stated discontent is something he, his staff, and the coaches are prepared to handle.
“There’s different personalities that you have to deal with on a daily basis, but when you look at Percy, what he brings to us on the field, how much passion he has to play football, he gives us a great opportunity to win on Sundays when he’s on the field,” Spielman said recently. “We try to know and understand when we draft a player, sign a player as a free agent, or bring a player into our organization, how we’re going to have to handle this player. Is he going to be handled differently? What do we have to do differently to handle a player? Those are a lot of pre-discussions that we have before we bring players in. And you just have to have a game plan if a guy has an issue or something and then try to work off that.”
“I know coach Frazier really met and sat and talked a lot with Percy. I dealt more with the business side of it and dealt with his agent, Joel Segal,” Spielman said. “As far as I know, the last dialogue I had, we’re expecting Percy to be at training camp and ready to go.”
We still don’t know, and possibly never will know, what caused Harvin’s outbursts last week and the reported request for a trade, but as of today it looks like Spielman and Frazier were able to tag team the issue effectively.
Training camp starts next month, however, and Harvin’s name will almost be the first one called during a much anticipated roll call.