Pointing to a report by Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com, sports blog Shutdown Corner said that the agents of Miami Dolphins tackle Jonathan Martin is no longer interested in rejoining his team despite the fact that his bully and team mate has been suspended to play in the sports league. Last year, Martin abruptly exited from the team halfway through the season after he accused teammate Richie Incognito and two others of bullying and harassment.
Shutdown Corner said that Martin's claims resulted to an investigation commissioned by the National Football League, leading to Incognito mulling over the future of his career in the sports league with the firing of a couple of senior staff who reportedly allowed the bullying to continue. Moreover, it also shed light to the culture of harassment kept alive in locker rooms and remained silent to the world for the sake of brotherhood, a CNN report said.
Despite efforts of the Dolphins management to right out the wrongs in the team, Martin is reportedly looking to switch alliances. La Canfora said in his report that a meeting with Martin's agents, Dolphins vice president of football operations Dawn Aponte, general manager Dennis Hickey and coach Joe Philbin happened at the NFL scouting combine, citing unnamed sources. The sources said the meeting was tense, as management officials were split about the way Martin had handled the bullying incidents done to him by Incognito and the others.
"Hickey did most of the talking from Miami's side, according to sources, with Philbin ‘staring daggers' across the room. At the end of the meeting, however, sources said Philbin expressed his belief that Martin's agents were responsible for Miami's locker room controversy reaching this point, that they were the real problem and alluding that Martin's concerns could have been kept more private and handled differently," La Canfora wrote.
After the report was published, La Canfora said in a series of tweets that Rick Smith, one of Martin's managers, denied his report and requested a reprieve from the public to allow things to happen organically.
