The short NFL career of Jonathan Martin is better known for the intimidation scandal that accompanied him. More than a decade after his teammates were accused of harass For a second “he was being intimidated.
Martin, 35, was a second round of the Dolphins in 2012, but played only seven games in 2013 before looking for medical help for emotional anguish. The reports soon indicated that Martin had been the victim of “harassment and persistent donkey” for his fellow blockers Richie Incognito, Mike Pouncy and John Jerry. Then, the NFL intervened, the commissioning lawyer, Ted Wells, to investigate and incognito received an indefinite team suspension by “harmful conduct for the team.” The club also triggered its offensive line coach.
Incognito used derogatory and racial comments, Martin reiterated ESPN in recent interviews. However, the latter reformulated the interactions as “a situation with my teammates that I was not very happy.” Martin’s mother, Jane, “read her own situation about the situation,” he said, and pushed the notion of “bullying.”
“I hadn’t even told my coaches, I hadn’t told anyone,” Martin explained. “And suddenly he is in ESPN, right? … I never thought that for a second I was being intimidated … it is a story that I have been trying to fix for 10 years.”
Martin would never play another click for the Dolphins after the scandal arose, and, in fact, he played only 15 more games at the NFL level, after a 2014 exchange of 2014 to the San Francisco 49ers. He prefers not to discuss the defining controversy of his career, saying that he likes to “present me as me today”, but added that his “greatest regret [in] The life “was” participating in that clown show “of an NFL investigation.
“It was not fine,” said Martin, who was arrested in 2018 for labeling the incognito and other alleged Dolphins thugs in a publication on social networks that show a shotgun and ammunition. “I needed some kind of football … [But] I didn’t need to be this tit-for-to in TMZ, right? I should have sat with the owner and the head coach of the dolphins and discovered it. “
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Despite his personal regrets, Martin also sought to frame himself as an “Alfa” in his last ESPN interviews, completed with an excavation in Incognito and his former teammates of the Dolphins team.
“I no longer have any resentment for anyone in that situation,” said Martin, “because Richie Incognito and Mike Cobrey have already reached their maximum point. They have already achieved the greatest success they will achieve in their life. And I.” I’m starting ” .
Meanwhile, in unknown he believes that Martin’s comments are evidence that he was harmed years ago.
“He could not cut it into the NFL, so he resigned and his mother blamed me,” he wrote an unknown in X this week. “The inherited media pushed this narrative a lot and far. Too bad that everything was a lie! They lied to protect their money. He came out [and] The team had every right to recover that money. His mother began the intimidation narrative with ESPN … so that the Miami Dolphins would not be after their signature bonus!
“It was wild to read the Ted Wells report,” added Incognito. “A group of lawyers entered and tried to understand the culture of an NFL costumes. They made a mountain with a mole hill while they were led by Martin’s parents. Dolphins.
