I completely agree that we don't know the entire story. I doubt we ever do. Both aides will have their version, so i doubt we ever know the complete truth. I'm not saying it is a "money grab". But i'm also not dismissing that possibility.

The son of a lawyer and Stanford grad.

The conspiracy theorist in me believes that he's been buttering up the situation for a lawsuit from the start.

But he's not a productive LT. And it may have become clear to him after this dismal season and subsequent benching, that he never will be.

And if he is selling a story, he would say that he can't go back to that awful place. He may or may not have PTSD. I have no idea. But to completely dismiss the possibility that after he left, his workplace lawyer mother didn't take over and his words haven't been carefully chosen is, in my opinion, naive.

Totally more plausible than attempting to become a franchise LT.....

Maybe so.

But, he'd still earn a million dollar a year salary for being a capable backup AND he has a degree from Stanford. He's not exactly facing a homeless situation.

I'm just not buying the "Get Rich Quick" scheme.

It's always ironic to me that people without "money" always claim money as a motivating factor in cases like these.

He's overplaying it with this PTSD, he's had his lawyers on this from the start, he has yet to talk about it and it's not like we haven't seen more ridiculous lawsuits before.

So it can't be ruled out.

For all we know, maybe he doesn't want to play football anymore. It's not that hard to believe. We'll find out soon enough.

And you know this how?

How many people do you personally know that have dealt with PTSD?

My father suffers from PTSD. He was a police officer and wound up shooting and killing a guy on the job one night. The guy was driving at him in a vehicle trying to run him over so he fired at the driver and hit him in the head. He was basically looking him right in the eyes when it happened and that apparently ****ed him all up.

The PTSD diagnosis didn't come until years of therapy, though, when they finally got out of him that he had been molested by his uncle when he was kid. It was never known to anybody in the family as he never told anybody. Just kept it bottled up inside and basically forgot about it. The shooting brought all the emotion back out and sent him into deep PTSD.

What we learned through the process is that it generally takes more than 1 event for PTSD to occur. In many cases the series of events is similar, where 1 event will happen in a person's life that they're able to tuck away, but then another...and maybe even another...eventually makes them crack.

This seemingly simple thing could have been the final straw for Martin. None of us will ever know what events could have led up to this whole thing happening.

All of that said, I've always been a little stubborn about the whole thing. I've always felt like my dad (or anybody) should simply take a look in the mirror, man up, and move on with your life. That's easy for me to say, though, having been born and raised a spoiled brat who's never had a relatively bad thing happen to me in my life.

I deal with doctors quite a bit and they will most definitely medicate when its not totally necessary.
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Apparently the bullying story was all made up. Wow

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">He couldn’t cut it in the NFL so he quit and his mom blamed me. Legacy media pushed this narrative long and far. Too bad it was all a lie! They lied to protect his money. He quit… the team had every right to claw back that money. His mom started the bullying narrative with <a href="https://twitter.com/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@espn</a>… <a href="https://t.co/ifFFJPG1H7">https://t.co/ifFFJPG1H7</a></p>&mdash; Richie Incognito (@68INCOGNITO) <a href="https://twitter.com/68INCOGNITO/status/1891250816968954313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Richie Incognito is now using Twitter to bully poor Jonathan.

So Donger actually used to make football posts

Is Jonathan Martin our next LT? Make the call Verch!!

Well yes, as long as the story contained some weird, divisive socio-political theme.