The NFL Locker Room

I find it very hard to believe that one player in an NFL locker room could harass another player without the approval of every other player that lives within that room. Yes I believe that rookies are made to do things that the priviledge of being the elder statesman is dumped on the new kids on the block. If any team is going to succeed every member of the team has to pull his own weight. When the so called weak link in the chain isn't doing his part then the stronger links take action in order to strengthen the chain. Jonathan Martin the claimant in this case has had emotional issues in the past. I have not heard one Miami Dolphin come to the defense of Jonathan Martin the player claiming hasassment. I have heard several player defend the player suspended for harassment Richie Incognito. That tells me right there that the entire team approved of the action in order to try to make Martin a more emotional stable football player. Make him mad if need be and maybe he will become a better football player not the softy as is precieved by his team mates. You know that the NFL is a league of contradictions. ESPN shows highlights of players hitting others helmet to helmet. I know that is not a coach in America teaches tackling leading with the helmet. That is a broken neck waiting to happen for the tackler. Yet the players still tackle that way trying to jar the ball loose and then turn around and complain that they didn't know concussions were bad for your health. The NFL is a league that if you win everyone loves you and when you lose everyone thinks you are a bum. This locker room thing in Miami goes on in every locker room in the NFL. Our society is becoming a make an excuse for everyone. We can't keep score in little league because it might hurt a childs feeling that lost the game. The locker room of an NFL team only wants to win and anytime a weak link prevents that from happening that weak link will get cut. I doubt Martin will ever be wanted by any other NFL team because he can't pull his own weight. Martin is not even a rookie but a second year player so he should have at least gotten off the rookie do list. It would not surprise me that the Dolphin management approved Incognito to be the tough guy trying to toughen up Martin. Every team in the NFL only sees what good you can do for them. Someone thinks Martin could be great at some point in time or they would have cut him long ago. If you can't cut it you get cut that is plain and simple in the NFL. It is also the way of the world. If you are not cutting it in your job every company finds some way or other to get rid of you. The only problem for Joe Blow eight dollar an hour guy is nobody cares what happens to you. They can find another eight dollar an hour guy to take you place. The Dolphins have at least a half million in Martin and they would like to save their investment. I doubt Martin ever plays again for the Dolphins because his teammates will not have him as a teammate now. He has violated the code of the locker room. There is nobody that plays football could ever trust Martin as a teammate. Our world is just like an NFL locker room. If you are a working stiff working for someone else the only value you are is what you can help your company make. If you are not helping the profit line you are gone. In the NFL if you are not helping win games and because of you one of our best players is gone on suspension then you are not helping us and we will see if he ever plays for the Dolphins or any team ever again.