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11-10-2013, 12:36 PM | #1246 |
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Toughen up buttercup...
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11-10-2013, 12:38 PM | #1247 |
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I think given all we know, seems like a pretty loose assumption. I'm sure it was a contributing factor. But it sure sounds like the storm was brewing well before that.
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11-10-2013, 12:38 PM | #1248 |
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This... My God he wouldn't last a day on this board!
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11-10-2013, 12:40 PM | #1249 |
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That's no shit. Every day here is a code red waiting to happen. He'd crack under the aids tree antifreeze kill yourself here's a tampon I put it in your mom's butt barrage.
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11-10-2013, 12:41 PM | #1250 |
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So he was tough until he wasn't tough! I'm thinking if there's a way to show that he had lost his starting job buttercup is doing this as retaliation. But I get your point, I'm just thinking this is fun to watch. NTS, it's amazing on many levels.
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11-10-2013, 12:52 PM | #1251 |
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You need to be tough to play in the NFL. No doubt about that. I'm talking more about the fact that the guy arbitrarily left the team and entered himself in a hospital. You just don't do that if you're not having some kind of a problem, and I just don't buy the whole publicity stunt angle. I think the guy has issues and he apparently didn't trust anybody on his coaching staff or in their front office enough to go to them.
Reading up on this I find that they actually do mental health evaluations as part of their draft prep (http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/m...nderlic-110613) so it boggles me a bit that they don't have some kind of system in place for this kind of stuff. If the Dolphins handle this whole thing right, this story never sees the light of day. Have him talk to a sports therapist, work out whatever is going on between his ears. His teammates never have to know, the public never has to know, and we can all maintain this comfortable illusion that all men are manly men who never need help from anyone. That's more my point. Toughen up is the right message sometimes. Just don't think it was here. Mishandled situation by the Dolphins, bad move by Martin, all could have been avoided. |
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Martin couldn't do much. When a big dummy keeps saying "I'll slap your ****er mother in the face because I'm an hornorary black man" , and the GM thinks it's funny you've got few options. Sharp is an awful person and makes me sick to my stomach, and I see a lot of BS race cards getting pulled, but he was right about this situation. Sit Incognito and his slightly reeruned team mates down with some elderly deep south blacks that came out of a culture of mass lynching picnic's and see if they're still cool with enabling that big dummy to be a racist bonehead.
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Heat. Kitchen. Can't stand it? You know what to do. Keg lists some cogent alternative thoughts above.
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11-10-2013, 01:08 PM | #1259 |
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That's why a coach's "psychological" skills are so grossly underrated. They should be able to read when it's time, when it's not. It sounds to me like Miami had only one way of doing things. Seems to be the Parcells way.
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Locker rooms are rough places. We all know that. Hell, this board is basically a locker room, the way we bust each others' balls all the time. That's a part of comraderie and I hope it never changes. But, at the same time, on this issue, it seems like we all have a tendency to jump all over Jonathan Martin and rush to the defense of Richie Incognito. A guy with a record of disiplinary problems and suspensions going back over a decade. And I say "we" because I was the same way when the story broke. Bullying? In the NFL?! Are you ****ing kidding me? I've had some time to think about it now, and like I said, I think we're seeing two disparate problems here: one is a Dolphins organization which clearly mishandled an athlete to the point that it's become a public embarrassment, and the other is Martin, a guy that I believe is clearly struggling with mental illness right now. Which is I think notable when we're at a time where hotbutton topics include the ongoing study of concussions and the long term implications of football on mental health in the shadow of Junior Seau and Jovan Belcher and Paul Oliver. |
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