Originally posted by eonblue:
Wells didnt have to understand the culture. The report is split into sections. The first section is more conclusion based wheresas the second is purely factual. It contains a complete overview of all the collected information in the 1st and 2nd year of JMs career. Basically you're allowed to draw your own conclusions by reading the 2nd section.
As much as I agree with your point I don't feel Incognito is gettinf treated unfairly. He was the type of guy you don't invite out because you know he's going to get drunk and turn into a neanderthal. Unfortunately Martin didn't have choice in the matter because he was under contract. The culture doesn't give him a pass because alternately I dont believes all athletes act that way. I guarentee this team doesn't act nowhere near that abusive because there professionals and this is their job. If any of us treated a coworker like that it would be put on ice real quick. The onky difference is this was a locker room and that somehow makes it different. Sounds like just another b******t excuse for regressive behavior IMO.
If you take Jonathan Martin out of this 100%, completely ignore him in this situation, all these guys are still f**ked because of the way they treated others, such as the assistant trainer. There's not even the slightest rational argument that you can make to justify their treatment of that guy, the "boys will be boys" rhetoric falls completely flat on its face. You're talking about someone who was consistently harassed and degraded in his workplace in violation of a whole bevy of federal labor laws. There's absolutely no explaining that away, or the actual physical abuse brought upon the individual only identified as Player A who greeted with anti-homosexual slurs and what can in the most basic terms be considered sexual assault.
So no, for those trying to excuse this, that s**t doesn't fly, this wasn't even a normal locker room situation, what you had was a toxic environment and various players that Wells talked to admitted as much, one even went as far as saying that while Incognito was a good player, he was a poison that destroyed the locker room.
The stuff I've read about, could you for one moment imagine coaches like Harbaugh, Tomsula or Fangio letting this s**t fly, non-stop harassment of players and staff, over and over? This was bush league at best.