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To: C19fan

Disagree. The players only care about who can help them win. Incognito was there for them. Martin was disconnected and shy, (aloof?).

Martin was unable to handle the situation like a man, so he went crying and took advantage of the new, wussified anti-bullying meme.

A real man would sit down with concerned parties, including coaches/management, and extract whatever apologies and or promises needed to move forward.


4 posted on 11/08/2013 11:47:25 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: brownsfan
A real man would sit down with concerned parties, including coaches/management, and extract whatever apologies and or promises needed to move forward.

I am going back and forth on this one, and I think there's merit to that. He needed to deal with internally first. Unless we learn something drastically different than what we know now, it doesn't sound like he voiced any concern whatsoever to coaches or team leaders before taking this action.

I am sympathetic to this guy because I think he truly got pushed to the edge. I would guess he's a pretty solid person all around. From some of the video I've seen, he looks like a guy who just couldn't adapt to the rough and tumble culture of the NFL and the O-line team. He just didn't look happy. There's no doubt Incognito is a first-class jerk. That doesn't mean this was the ideal way to handle the situation. The concept of bullying and hazing of a very successful large, wealthy, and smart professional athlete (as the left-leaning media is predictably pushing) is off-base. I tend to agree this should have been made an issue internally within the organization, and no one has indicated that was the case.

18 posted on 11/08/2013 12:34:40 PM PST by ilgipper (Obama is proving that very bad ideas can be wrapped up in pretty words)
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