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Martin Steals Samunda's Car: Why can he bully other's and not be held accountable.

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Playing Devils advocate again!

Goonboss has brought this up a ton recently and I have one question for those treating Martin as such a martyr for bullying.

If Martin thought hazing and bullying was so terrible in the NFL why does he do it as well? Below is a link which shows a picture of Martin stealing rookie Josh Samunda's car during training camp.

As you can also see in the story Cogs and Martin were both in on the prank.

http://www.thephinsider.com/2013/7/...-josh-samudas-car-stolen-during-training-camp

Also Jeff Darlington just said on the Jim Rome show that the Martin pulled the cafeteria prank on others many times in the past as well.

So my question once again is why can Martin get away with bullying other players yet get upset when he gets supposedly bullied?
 
I think there is a distinct difference between a prank and racial text and text threatening family.
 
Maybe this evidence will help with the penalties, if any, against the fin organization
 
I agree. There are many questions still not answered. This is one of them.
 
Well the stuff that was just on ESPN a voicemail paints Incognito as about the biggest moron in the league!
 
There is a difference between pulling pranks and bullying. Can't help people who don't know the difference.

The bullying is the voicemails, texts, forcing Martin to pay $15,000, and the like actions. The pranks were not bullying. Also, we don't know what was said to Martin on Tuesday when everyone got up from the table. Incognito might have said something to him that was the final straw.
 
flynryan15 said:
I think there is a distinct difference between a prank and racial text and text threatening family.
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In terms of locker room/ teammate context it was actually pretty miniscule. Trust me, you would be appalled to hear most locker room banter. To me it looks like Martin likes to dish it out to others but can't take it.
 
I think Martin had a mental breakdown and when he saw the Dolphins put him on the non-injury list, he figured out he is not going to get paid and then

came up with bullying so to still get paid after he left the team. The only word heard from Martin during the past week was that he didn't blame Incognito

for this. IMO
 
mnphinfan said:
So my question once again is why can Martin get away with bullying other players yet get upset when he gets supposedly bullied?
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There's a vast difference between a prank like moving someone's car and the kind of bullying in which Incognito was engaging. That many people here can't seem to grasp that is unfortunate.
 
mnphinfan said:
In terms of locker room/ teammate context it was actually pretty miniscule. Trust me, you would be appalled to hear most locker room banter. To me it looks like Martin likes to dish it out to others but can't take it.
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I could understand a group of guys saying this to each other in a locker room and it meaning nothing, but these were done via voice mail and text.

That's one on one and personal. Different context if you ask me.
 
What Cogs did is inexcusable. Period. NoOne should have to put up with that crap. However, considering that Martin played the same exact cafeteria prank on Gardner the week before, IMO, he decided awhile ago he's too soft, alternatively sexual or intolerant of Cogs BS (which he should be) and, encouraged by some money-grubbing sharks who smelled blood in the NFL water, he was waiting for the just the right time to make a dramatic and newsworthy departure to maximize his retirement fund... no matter how much it embarrassed the team that paid him millions for underperforming. So while it's of a lesser magnitude, IMO, there are no angels in this story.
 
flynryan15 said:
Well the stuff that was just on ESPN a voicemail paints Incognito as about the biggest moron in the league!
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Yes, but once again playing Devil's advocate, we don't know the context the voice mails were left in (were they joking or motivative) or even get to hear the entire voicemail. Hell, Cogs could have gone on to say, "Love you man, keep up the good work, the team is really gonna need you" and we would never know it.

There is gonna be a lot more information coming out and I think when all is said and done Cogs is just gonna get in trouble for things that are said/happen in every locker room in the NFL.
 
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