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Brian Hartline: Need to protect ourselves from media bullying

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by xphinfanx, Nov 6, 2013.

  1. xphinfanx

    xphinfanx Stay strong my friends.

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  2. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Most important line:

    "You guys always get the mic last."
     
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  3. DevilFin13

    DevilFin13 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    If Hartline is being threatened by the media he needs to alert the NFLPA and the league ASAP.
     
  4. LiferYank

    LiferYank New Member

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    This is sounding more and more like Martin just didnt want to play but he wants to get paid.
     
  5. Lee2000

    Lee2000 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    I think Hartline kind of opened some can of worms. His comments about the text and his implied comment about Martin laughing at it will be followed up on. There will be further discussion on it without a doubt because it is already happening on NFLN.
     
  6. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    If the goal of these players was to get the media off their backs then they failed miserably.
     
  7. KB21

    KB21 Almost Never Wrong Club Member

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    ...and you think there was anything they could do to get the media off their backs?
     
  8. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    I think the goals of the players were to be truthful.
     
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  9. Lee2000

    Lee2000 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    I think Clabo and Hartline took the honesty part to heart.
     
  10. DOLPHAN1

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    no. i think was a punch right back in the face of the media to let them know they aren't gonna just let them be bullied for a headline. good for them!!
     
  11. LiferYank

    LiferYank New Member

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    Goodluck with the media ~
     
  12. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Sure. If you give them nothing then eventually there is nothing to talk about and the press gets bored.

    Just say its a tough situation and that you wish both guys the best regardless of what happened. Instead now the media has several new angles to dig around.
     
  13. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    The media isn't bullying them. The media is following a legitimate news story. They just don't like it because it generally makes them all look bad.
     
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  14. Dolphins1Beatles

    Dolphins1Beatles Ziggy Stardust

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    I'm getting sick of both now. And now that the players got their points out, you know what time it is? It's time to actually PROVE that you're a united team by winning games and making the playoffs. Otherwise they just look like frauds if they don't actually show anything and lose to the Winless Bucs, or more imporantly, their fellow AFC playoff contenders they have coming up.
     
  15. djphinfan

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    New narrative..the media is the bully..
     
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  16. DOLPHAN1

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    actually what they are revealing is making the media look bad, kangaroo court and all...
     
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  17. Dol-Fan Dupree

    Dol-Fan Dupree Tank? Who is Tank? I am Guy Incognito.

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    Depends on your view point and who you are talking about.

    The media that is saying that their is no leadership in the locker room are not just following a legitimate news story.
     
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  18. Linus

    Linus Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Bullying and racism in the locker room of America's favorite sport....the media will eat it right up. It was pretty obvious after we learned that Martin texted him to say he didn't blame him and they have a bunch of pictures and conversations together online that something was fishy. The voicemail was a joke from the start and 99% of people here and everywhere couldn't fathom it. Now we learn even Martin was laughing along.

    People let the media paint a picture for them. Props to some posters like SICK and DJ for keeping a level head in this (as well as others).
     
  19. djphinfan

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    thats about the most incomplete statement I think I've heard from you Schmoot.
     
  20. Serpico Jones

    Serpico Jones Well-Known Member

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    Some of the things the players said today don't hold much water. For instance when John Jerry was asked what he would do if Incognito called him a n**ger he said he would just laugh it off, I seriously doubt that. Also some of Hartline's comments were a little out of line.
     
  21. Section126

    Section126 We are better than you. Luxury Box

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    God Bless Brian Hartline.
     
  22. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    You don't know the relationship between John Jerry and Richie Incognito, which is why this issue is a tricky one to judge from an outsider's perspective. (Plus Richie never said it to John Jerry anyways, hypotheticals are fun.)

    Do I agree with what Richie said to Jonathan Martin? No. But that doesn't really matter.
     
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  23. djphinfan

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    people make mistakes in life, my philosophy is as long as their intentions are in the right place it's all good, obviously Richie took it to a level that most people can't fathom, I take it as a sense of good friendship, as hard as that is for folks to believe, it absolutely is imo..The mistake was going there with a young dude who has some real emotional issues..
     
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  24. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Honestly, the entire team, Martin included, is just coming across to me as so unlikable that I'm having a hard time mustering up any desire to root for them at the moment. I'll admit to hypocrisy in advance as I'm sure a 5 game win streak would get me back on board, but right now, I just don't like anybody from Ross on down.

    If Richie Incognito is the hero of your story, you are telling a terrible story
     
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  25. Linus

    Linus Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    By printing the text of a naughty joke voicemail and painting the big bad man as a psycho racist who was sent by the entire staff to demonize the kindest person on the team. What the media and Martin are doing now is far worse than anything going on in the locker room. This is a lesson in how easily they can skew reality to fit a certain agenda.
     
  26. LiferYank

    LiferYank New Member

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    And why would Jerry not tell the truth if he thought Richie was some ****ing racist? Its pretty sad these same reporters that are in locker rooms constantly are acting like they having heard the N word in a locker room before.
     
  27. LiferYank

    LiferYank New Member

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    Then dont. You hardly had a postive image of this team before this incident anyways....
     
  28. Rocky Raccoon

    Rocky Raccoon Greasepaint Ghost Staff Member

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    Of course you do. Of course.

    You know what is out of line? For the media to tear apart the characters of players without knowing what the **** they're talking about.
     
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  29. CitizenSnips

    CitizenSnips hmm.

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    Let me ask, since you've been pretty much against Miami in this situation, how do you want this to go down? What repercussions?
     
  30. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Be careful, not all the details have been released yet. Today was no make or break moment, but that catharsis you may be feeling is because we were all begging for any kind of additional information.
     
  31. Rocky Raccoon

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    LOL. You find the players unlikeable because they're tired of having their names dragged through the mud and are fighting back? That makes them even MORE likable to me.
     
  32. Serpico Jones

    Serpico Jones Well-Known Member

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    What media has torn apart anything? I'm going to ask you a question I often ask you: what the hell are you talking about?
     
  33. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Leadership within the locker room.
     
  34. Linus

    Linus Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    You are right and of course more could come out. It may result in both guys never playing for the Dolphins or in general....but that team we just saw (and coach) was one with nuts sticking up for themselves. Kind of refreshing. I don't see how it could be seen as a negative.
     
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  35. P h i N s A N i T y

    P h i N s A N i T y My Porpoise in Life

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    The truth is slowly coming out, and it's not exactly playing into the doom and gloomers hands, like they'd hoped.

    It hasn't got worse before getting better, and I think if mods want to tease with secrets from the club forum, of how we know nothing and that the franchise will hit rock bottom with heads a' Rollin'......... They may owe an apology ! We won't get it, but this situation has left a lot of folks embarrassing themselves, aside from the two players.
     
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  36. Rocky Raccoon

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    Are you paying attention? The media has questioned every single player in the locker room for not being leaders and letting things get like this. Asking how they could let something like this happen.

    Open your eyes.
     
  37. Rocky Raccoon

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    This is true. But I love the fight from the team I'm seeing.
     
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  38. invid

    invid Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    I do too, we're Dolphins fans after all.
     
  39. Serpico Jones

    Serpico Jones Well-Known Member

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    Those questions are fair.
     
  40. Dol-Fan Dupree

    Dol-Fan Dupree Tank? Who is Tank? I am Guy Incognito.

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    The questions are fair, the statements are not.
     
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