Kenny F'ing Powers said:
But you're not prepared to listen to those arguments. The guy is a sexist dirtball, a pig, an asshole...and very good at his job. Is it really beyond the realm of comprehension that an employer caters to one of it's best employees?
Again, the team voted for him to be a captain (to make things easy, I'm just calling it that from now on). Did you expect Philbin to say, "Alright guys, we're voting for captains. You can't pick Richie because he's an asshole." Again, that would have caused a serious shit storm on the team. Could he have assigned captains himself? Probably. But most athletes are creatures of habits. Philbin's probably had teams "voting for captains" since he was a teenager, and considering he's at the pinnacle of his profession - NFL head coach - it's probably worked well for him.
I guess my position is simple -- if a guy is a captain and he sticks a golf club in the crotch of a woman against her will at a team charity event, he can't be captain any more. I don't buy the notion that a head coach lacks the authority to strip a captain of a captaincy. I think we can all come up with hypotheticals where one would agree it's required no matter what the team might vote. This to me seems like something where you do it. If the argument is that a coach doing that makes too many ripples in the locker room, maybe that is what the Dolphins thought. As I said, that to me is culpable.
Kenny F'ing Powers said:
But it's just as likely that Incognito Jr was explaining the situation to his father and said, "I dunno why he's doing this to me. He's an emotional mess. He's even tried to kill himself before."
It could be an innocuous comment used as proof that Martin is unstable, or it could prove that Incog Jr. is a terrible human being and he had no problem pushing Martin towards a ledge. I agree with you. It would go a long way in our kangaroo court towards finding Incog Jr guilty of...something. I just don't think that information ever comes out.
I think that's possible. I don't think I would regard that as innocuous though.