Quote:This team pays these players millions of dollars for a couple of seasons worth of play. If "asking" them to try and get along with other teammates is asking too much of them, I think they can cope. They won't break, I promise.. If you need more solid reasoning for that, that sounds like a personal problem.

 

But to your point, why should the remainder of the squad be told that they have to deal with one individual instead of telling the one individual that he will have to fit in with the team? From my perspective, that's what happened in each of the spots where he was before, and he either could not or would not cope, i.e. suck it up.

 

Organizations that are asked to perform complex tasks in high stress environments are very delicate things, it really doesn't take a lot to knock them off stride. Bringing in a player with the kind of baggage that Harvin has is just asking for the team concept to be derailed.

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