RENTON, Wash. — Conflicts and fisticuffs might be the lasting legacy of wide receiver Percy Harvin’s abbreviated run with the Seattle Seahawks, and the one coach who had previous experience with Harvin as a pro with the Vikings was not pleased with the results.

Offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell expected to draw the best out of Harvin, coaxing the type of play — long gains after the catch to go with flashy returns — that attracted the Seahawks to Harvin two years earlier, when Bevell strongly endorsed trading for the now 26-year-old enigma.

“I was disappointed. I did have a history with him, and I thought it would be a different outcome. But I guess that’s just the way it went,” Bevell told the Tacoma News Tribune. “I think we have a phenomenal atmosphere here. It’s led by coach (Pete) Carroll. I think he gives the guys great freedom to be who they want to be. I think he sets the tone for the whole program. It’s an upbeat program. Obviously we are very positive here. It’s just disappointing.”

For all of his playmaking potential, Harvin never became the serious offensive threat. He did have three touchdowns called back due to penalties at Washington this season, but most of his impact players were as a runner or returner.

Harvin said in his first meeting with New York media that he wasn’t thrilled with the way he was used in the Seahawks’ offense.

“I had many conversations with him about it, just about his role and the things that we would ask him to do. He never articulated that to me,” Bevell said. “I mean, he caught a deep ball in the Washington game — unfortunately it got called back. But the thing was we wanted to make sure he was going to be involved in the game and get the touches. You know, you can just double team somebody and just take him out of the game (with deeper balls). He never did. But we’ve moved on past that. It’s left in the past.”

Carroll knows the best way to show that his team is past the chaos of last week is to beat the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

As the team prepares for its third trip in three years to Carolina, Carroll insists that the Harvin trade is now in the past, leaving no mess behind that still has to be cleaned up.

“We already have made that move,” Carroll said “We’re moving on.”

Maybe.

Many will wonder, though, until the Seahawks again look like themselves, something they have not done the past two weeks in falling to 3-3 with losses to the Dallas Cowboys and the St. Louis Rams.

Carroll points out Seattle could have won both games with just the change of a play here or a play there.

“The margin of where we are vs. where we could be is so slight that the hope is very strong,” Carroll said.

In fact, Seattle had one of its best statistical showings of the season in the loss at St. Louis, outgaining the Rams 463-267, losing largely thanks to three big special teams play by the home team.