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Percy Harvin has confirmed fights with Doug Baldwin and Golden Tate when all three were wide receivers in Seattle, and Harvin says the problem stemmed from immaturity on the part of Baldwin and Tate.

According to Harvin, as soon as the Seahawks traded for him and gave him a lucrative contract, Baldwin and Tate began whining.

“It was a constant thing,” Harvin told the Buffalo News. “It was something that got under my skin. I felt like they were acting like kids.”

Harvin, who is now with the Bills, says Baldwin and Tate didn’t want Harvin catching passes that otherwise would have gone to them.

“We all played the same position. So me coming in took reps from them,” Harvin said. “They wanted to show they were already established having made it to the NFC Championship the year before I got there. So they kind of had the approach of, ‘We don’t need anybody else. We’re established.’”

Harvin says he hit Baldwin only after Baldwin repeatedly got in his face as Harvin tried to walk away from a dispute.

“Everybody calls him, ‘Tough Doug’ or ‘Angry Doug,’” Harvin said. “That was one of the times, he tried to use me to show he was a tough guy. I tried to walk away and he came back. It got messy. And I think what happened was the best for me.”

What eventually happened is that the Seahawks decided Harvin was more trouble than he was worth, and they traded him to the Jets. The fact that Harvin is now on his fourth different team suggests that Baldwin and Tate are far from the only ones who have had a problem with him. Even if Harvin insists that Baldwin and Tate were to blame for the problems they had.