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Jonathan Martin's Options for Handling Situation

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From what I've heard today on PTI and ESPN:

1. Fight Incognito. What other way to handle the situation then to kick his ass? - NO

2. Gone to Philbin and tell him what's going on. Apparently doing this would make Martin seem weak and would be bad for him vs. his teammates.

3. Quit/Walk out on team. Will he return? No one knows. But Le Batard and Kornheiser agreed separately that this was his best option (out of all terrible ones).

These are literally the 3 things I've heard talked about today on TV. That being said, I'd like someone to tell me specifically what Joe Philbin should have done in this situation. I still haven't been provided an answer that would make Philbin and others on the staff liable for what has happened so far.
 
4. Ask for a trade - Maybe the Colts would do a deal?
 
3. Quit/Walk out on team. But Le Batard and Kornheiser agreed separately that this was his best option

Because they are idiots.
 
4. Confront Incognito, tell him your problems. If he agrees to relax, no problem. If he flips out and continues to berate you, go to the coach.
 
I get the feeling Incognito was joking and Martin knows this. I don't think Martin was scared. I think Martin realized he didn't want to play football anymore, has a breakdown, went crying to his parents... Parents took over and this is where we`re at... Martin texted he didn't blame anyone in the locker room and a day later files a report... there`s conflict there
 
JDRA20 said:
4. Confront Incognito, tell him your problems. If he agrees to relax, no problem. If he flips out and continues to berate you, go to the coach.
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That leaves you back at option #2, and be seen as a snitch to the locker room, even if he went to Cogs first. The only way the locker room would've respected him was to flat out deck him. That's the ugly truth! Martin really was in a no win situation in this spot, and never should've had to have been in that predicament in the first place.
 
More options:

- talk to Incognito: why is everyone saying that fighting would be the only way? Considering Incognito was asking ESPN to retract their story, it would seem to me that he was somewhat blindsided by this as well. Is it possible that Incognito thought they had one kind of relationship where vulgar insults were appropriate, while Martin never really expressed his discomfort with it? I have a feeling Richie is the kind of guy who says this kind of vulgar crap to his friends. Wouldn't be surprised at all if it turns out he has said far worse to Pouncey, and Pouncey gives it right back. Who know how Cog would have handled it if Martin expressed that he didn't like that kind of talk around him, but there is a possibility Cog may have honored his request. Who knows, but it doesn't look like Martin took that route either.

- Ignore Incognito: Even though he was on the OL, perhaps he could find another less boorish crowd on the team to hang with. That being said, there may not be too many mature guys on this squad. Can't think of many off the top of my head.

All I know, he did NOT take the best option. The best option can't be to run away and napalm the entire organization and wreck countless lives and careers, because that's what blindsiding the organization with all this did. There are many innocent people that will be affected indirectly by all this. Had he gone through the proper channels (talking to coaches and staff about his issues), much of this could have been avoided.
 
NBP81 said:
I get the feeling Incognito was joking and Martin knows this. I don't think Martin was scared. I think Martin realized he didn't want to play football anymore, has a breakdown, went crying to his parents... Parents took over and this is where we`re at... Martin texted he didn't blame anyone in the locker room and a day later files a report... there`s conflict there
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Take away all the emotional rhetoric from the anti-cog or anti-martin agenda-ists, and this appears to me to be the most plausible explanation.
 
JDRA20 said:
4. Confront Incognito, tell him your problems. If he agrees to relax, no problem. If he flips out and continues to berate you, go to the coach.
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You mean handle the situation like an adult?
 
NorFlaFin said:
4. Ask for a trade - Maybe the Colts would do a deal?
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Deadline was last week. Can trades occur after?

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JDRA20 said:
4. Confront Incognito, tell him your problems. If he agrees to relax, no problem. If he flips out and continues to berate you, go to the coach.
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So instead of going to the coach before confronting Incognito, he'd do it after trying to talk Incognito down?
 
Every one of the 30 some odd threads on page one of this forum are about Cogs and Martin. I've never seen anything like this.
 
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