Posted on 10/24/2014 1:46:09 PM PDT by cport
Earlier this week, Bleacher Report's Mike Freeman wrote about the ongoing saga in Seattle in the wake of the Percy Harvin trade. Specifically, some Seahawks players think third-year quarterback Russell Wilson is too close to the front office, and doesn't always take blame for his mistakes.
Then there's this: "There is also an element of race that needs to be discussed," Freeman wrote. "My feeling on this -- and it's backed up by several interviews with Seahawks players -- is that some of the black players think Wilson isn't black enough."
We talked about Wilson's blackness on the Eye on Football podcast, which you can listen to by hitting play on the episode (10/22) below (and that led to this tweet). But on Thursday's SportsCenter, Kenny Mayne added this to Freeman's story:
“Two sources — one inside the team, one outside of the underachieving 3-3 Seahawks — tell me that much of what was written in Mike Freeman's Bleacher Report column is true,” Mayne said, via PFT. “(Freeman) wrote of turmoil involving since-traded Percy Harvin and the quarterback Russell Wilson that led to a more widespread internal battle pitting those for Russell Wilson and those against.
"And Freeman surmised on his own an issue among some teammates regarding Wilson that quote, 'he isn't black enough.' A certain expected behavior based on color, apparently. One of the sources told me, quote, I don't know how he got all that stuff, but it's pretty much true. We do have a divide. We're working on it. Thursday that notion was not presented to Wilson, but over and again, questions came about Harvin's departure.”
First, as PFT's Mike Florio points out, Freeman didn't "surmise" this. It was his feeling "backed up by several interviews with Seahawks players." Second, "that notion" was presented to Wilson...
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I am ashamed I know what makes it rain means
I think that I heard that Harvin was traded to Seattle because he was disruptive to the last team that he played for.
What does it mean? I have been trying to figure that out.
make it rain
When you have a wad of cash and throw it in the air in a strip club, ‘’making it rain’’ It’s also a song by Fat Joe
I make it rain on dem hoes
Neither is Peyton Manning.
What's up with that?
Sure is fun watching the National Felon League tearing itself apart.
What are these idiots who can’t do anything other than play a kid’s game for big bucks going to do when that option no longer exists?
Not BLACK enough? Would they like it if Russell Wilson change his name to - I don’t know - Kinta Oolonga or some other African name...?
Barry’s skin game in America sure is getting old. I don’t like this tribal thing the DemocRATS have going. I liked it better when we were united the way we were on 9-12-01.
“You don’t even ask Peyton Manning or Tom Brady because you don’t expect them to hang with you,” Irvin continued. “When it is an African-American then you expect him to hang and be with you. Which I think is crazy.”
The flip side is maybe that he is too ‘christian’ for the other black players.
Don’t follow the hawks much. I’m a Denver and Charger fan, yes I know same conference. Liv e in O-side. But when PM was traded, I became a fan of the comeback.
I have strongly disliked Carroll for quite a while.
They were so impressive last year, its a shame they couldn’t keep it together.
Oh well, it’s a long season.
Not so much.
I interpreted that as support for Russell Wilson. Are you saying that it wasn’t?
Good for Barkley and Irwin. Rodney Harrison was also supportive of Wilson on WEEI Boston sports radio today, as were some black callers to the show. It’s good to hear.
I did too, just reinforcing your statement.
:)
Barkley is someone current athletes should listen to, along with other former athletes. Not only does he understand being on top, but also afterwards. A player doesn’t get much time in the NFL, the average career is less than three years. Then you have to go do something else for the next 20-30 years that will make far less money. They need to save as much money as they can while they are making it.
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