On Saturday morning, the NFL hotline was buzzing with news that sources informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter and NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport that the Arizona Cardinals are finalizing a trade to send away wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. One team the Cardinals are speaking with is the Houston Texans, where he would be reunited with his Ohio State teammate C.J. Wherever Harrison is landing, former Minnesota Vikings wide receiver and Harrison's fellow OSU alum w Cris Carter has some powerful words for him regarding self-talk.
The Hall of Famer explained during an interview with "Inside Football”: “A number of things are going on and I’m not gonna be the typical wide receiver, you know, and blame it on the quarterback ‘cause I do have a lot of respect for Jacoby (Brissett, Cardinals quarterback) and how he goes about his business, the tools that he has, how he distributes the football. So every week I’m sending him certain things and a lot of things that him and I are talking about this year involves self-talk, I said, because you got a lot of negative talk around you and you’re gonna have to offset that and talk to yourself in a positive way. Know that you are an elite player and you are a number one guy and you are gonna fulfill your potential.
You are a Pro Bowl player. So, I think he’s a guy that takes the job serious – he does all the right things off the field, doesn’t have any bad habits. And based on not organization, quarterback, offense, changing coaches, things like that.
You go from being in an ultra stable program at Ohio State to being… Hummm, I don’t know what’s going on in Arizona. But I tell him you are responsible for your development. So he is personally responsible to make sure that he gets better and that’s by route running, studying more film and getting himself more involved.
Like (I) demanded more from his overall performance.” Harrison will be inactive for Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions.
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