Dave Hyde: The sad truth about the Bullygate scandal from Dolphins finally comes out

It was always the worst kind of lie: one that was comfortable and credible; An NFL lawyer could sell to continue; One Miami Dolphin's officials have registered for the additional credibility of public registrations. And one that can officially be described as a lie after more than a decade of harmful life.

“I never believed that I was bullied,” said Jonathan Martin to Espn.

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The saddest chapter in Dolphin's history is becoming increasingly sad. Martin could have said this at the beginning of Bullygate in 2014 and ended it. He could have told the NFL investigator Ted Wells and changed the conclusion that the league was enthusiastic about the illustration.

Martin would have told the Dolphin's owner Steve Ross and saved several good career -teammates, coaches and good support employees such as coach Kevin O'Neill, who was appointed NFL coach of the year when he apparently released because he had no longer worked with a league examination that he was trying that he tried to do everyone involved.

“It is a story I've tried for 10 years,” said Martin.

What? How? Where did he try? Who did he speak to?

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“Well … well … well,” said Richie Incognito, the previous bully of Bullygate, on Sunday on social media when he published a story of Martin in which Martin admits the truth.

Bullygate ruined one season and several careers for good men, but had an emotional complexity in their center than the Simpleeton ideas, which were delivered to their conclusion.

This previous sentence is not a new thought. I wrote it in Bullygates years ago. It didn't take a big insight to conclude that it was not as easy to be Simon like a player, incognito, the bad, arrogant Meathead and the other, Martin, the poor, naive victim.

It only increased to those involved and understood the changing culture. NFL lawyers such as Wells were too interested in reaching a comfortable goal like Incognito on a public record in order to stop all ugliness for the league.

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His 144-page report failed so many. The dolphins also failed powerfully. Ross gave the investigation into the league from the start instead of doing some work. That would always have been the better way for his employees.

However, there was a bully in Bullygate. That is obvious now. It was the league and the dolphins that accepted a lie who changed the football career and the full life of people who could not go back from Incognito to O'Neill to the offensive line coach Jim Turner. They lost jobs. Players like John Jerry and Mike Pouncey and other support employees had changed the reputation by mentioned in the Wells report in different ways.

Coach Joe Philbin was asked forever this season why he had no control over his changing room. In it was the truth. But the greater truth in terms of bullygate is that it was never a story about bullying, racist mocking, terrible culture of the changing room or the indiscretion of a trainer who at the moment became the conclusion of pop psychology.

Nolan Carroll, a security in this team, mentioned the career, which is affected by Bullygate on Sunday, and wrote Martin on the social media: “I remember when he cried and left the changing room because he did not play well and did not make a effort to work from a hole. He just ran like a holiday!

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That was the prevailing idea within the dolphins from the start. There is another way to see this that has come out over the years.

Incognito and Martin were perhaps on the opposite pages of emotional spectra, one loud and rough and the other were calm and sensitive. But they are also victims in different manners, no matter how few Martin want to see today as one.

As Incognito, Martin suffered problems with mental health. Incognito was public about his problems. Martin's expenditure of blindsided coaches and employees after Bullygate in a way you would have liked it. Martin broke the football and news cycle after football up to an alarming social media post in 2018.

“If you are a bullying victim and a coward, your options are suicide or revenge,” he wrote with the image of a shotgun and at the same time mentioned Incognito, Pouncey and his high school in the Harvard-Westlake school.

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He went to the hospital in this episode. He did the financial work that focused on cryptocurrency, as the ESPN story says.

Incognito was suspended eight games that became a lost year of football before he had three per bowl playing times in Buffalo and with the Oakland Raiders. Bullygate never ended for him. Sure, he made mistakes in the team at the time. He did it. But he met the goal when he wrote about the Wells report:

“A group of lawyers came in and tried to understand the culture of an NFL converter.

Martin, who said it was all a lie from the start, cannot decrease from consequences. There is only one truth that could see all the time.

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