Retired wide receiver and NFL analyst Randy Moss wasn't a fan of the way the Seattle Seahawks handled the trade of his former Vikings teammate, Percy Harvin.
"You don't air out your dirty laundry when a person is gone," Moss said on a recent Fox Sports podcast, per CSN Bay Area. "That's something that affects us as people and players. We are people, we do have emotions."
Moss' take on the situation came to light after his FOX Sports colleague, Jay Glazer, reported that the Seattle Seahawks had reached out to Moss shortly after trading Harvin in hopes of securing him as a replacement.
The former NFL standout confirmed Glazer's report, per the Denver Post, and subsequently launched into his assessment of Percy Harvin's exit from the Pacific Northwest.
Courtesy of CSN Bay Area:
"I think the Percy Harvin situation was bad."
"I remember when he was hurt, and they were talking about when he comes back, wondering how he's going to come back. Then he electrified the stadium in the Meadowlands, then he came out against the Denver Broncos and did some electrifying things. A lot of positive things was looking good for the Seattle Seahawks because they were able to have that playmaker they were missing on special teams and on offense because you were able to move Percy Harvin around."
"Then when things start going bad, we start hearing all of these things coming out of the Seahawks camp. I'm not saying they're true and I'm not saying they're false. If it was that big of a problem -- he's fighting at the Super Bowl and he's becoming a problem in the locker room -- well, no one such as coach [Pete] Carroll or quarterback [Russell] Wilson, or anybody like that, veteran guys, to be able to pull him aside and talk to him."
"I was just wondering where the veteran leadership was," Moss stated. "And if the veteran leadership did try to reach out to Percy Harvin, was he that much gone mentally and not caring, that he just told everybody 'just let me do this, and let me be me.'"
"We don't know what went on in-house. All I'm just saying was it could've been handle in a different way. Don't wait till a guy is gone to air out the dirty laundry, is all I'm saying."
Moss suited up for six teams over the course of his NFL career. He last played in the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers in 2012.
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