Summary: The Ever Changing Dolphins Bullying Case: Should it Have Happened?

By now if you follow Sports...or News, you've read or seen at least a little something on the situation brewing internally with the NFL's Miami Dolphins.

Here's a brief recap: Dolphins 2nd year Tackle Jonathan Martin left the team last week after what he termed an abusive workplace situation. In that, he says teammates bullied him.

On Sunday, teammate Richie Incognito, also an offensive lineman was suspended from the team and accused of being the person responsible for the situation.

As the day unfolded on Monday, more revelations appeared. A trail of voice mails and text messages, that appear to threaten and intimidate Martin. There also is a racial component according to multiple reports by the Associated Press.

Here's where we are today: Incognito remains away from the team. He may never return. The consensus appears to be that he was way over the line and the Dolphins have proof. But the team is waiting on an investigation by NFL Security before fully acting.

Martin also remains away from the team and has sought counseling. His return has yet to be determined.

The Dolphins have gone to great lengths to distance themselves from Incongnito's apparent actions. The Miami Herald reported on Monday, he's likely to be cut. Don't expect him to be picked up by another team.

This folks, is a mess. And it's hard to describe to people who haven't been inside an NFL locker room.

In many ways, the NFL is like living in or with a college fraternity. The locker room has it's own hierarchy and most of the time, police's itself. But not always.

We've spent a large chunk of our career covering pro sports. All of them (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL) have a similar set-up. Guys tend to, but not always are close. But there is an assumed level of respect.

Yes, there is rookie hazing, yes, there's a certain amount of grief, insults, jokes etc that go on. But it's generally all in good fun. And guys normally have lines that aren't crossed.

That doesn't seem to be the case here.

Should the Dolphins and coach Joe Philbin been more aware of what was happening? Yes. Should they have put some clamps on it? Yes. Should Martin's teammates have stepped in? Probably.

But it didn't happen.

Like it or not. Agree with it or not, an NFL team is a professional workplace and all workplaces have rules that have to be followed. Or there is punishment. And that's the case here. If this happened at your workplace, you'd be fired. On the spot.

We will continue following this story, we suspect it's not done and happens more frequently than this.

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