Richie Incognito Is Still An Asshole

In 2013, Miami Dolphins 2012 2nd-round offensive lineman, Jonathan Martin, played in just 7 games before leaving the team due to mental health issues he claimed were caused by bullying from Richie Incognito and the rest of the O-Linemen on the team, including racial slurs and all.

Richie Incognito received an indefinite suspension after the NFL investigated the situation and both men’s careers pretty much fizzled out after the incident.

You can’t play in the NFL if you’re calling your teammates slurs and you can’t be in the NFL if you cry and tell the chaperone about how mean the other kids are being on the field trip.

In a recent ESPN report, revisiting this story, now 35-year old Jonathan Martin admitted that he regrets making a big deal of the situation and he wasn’t really bullied.

“I never believed for a second I was being bullied. It’s a story,” he says, “that I’ve been trying to fix for 10 years.”

The whole interview was strange, like, Martin blaming his mother for encouraging him to go with the bullying narrative which makes sense that a young man’s mother would be concerned for their child but Martin attempts to have it both ways. He wasn’t a victim of anything while simultaneously also claiming that whatever was happening to him in that locker room was so bad, his mother had to step in to protect him.

Later in the interview, after claiming he made a mistake running with the bullying thing, he continues to take little subtle shots at his foes:

“I don’t have any hard feelings toward anybody from that situation anymore. Because Richie Incognito and Mike Pouncey already peaked. They’ve already achieved the most success they’re going to achieve in their life. And I’m just getting started.”

The beef isn’t dead until there’s a funeral for it.

Respect to my guy Little John.

I wish he didn’t care so much about how strangers view his masculinity and that’s something he should probably work on in his free time but pettiness will always be celebrated here at Deadseriousness.

Richie Incognito did not love this story being revisited…

He couldn’t cut it in the NFL so he quit and his mom blamed me. Legacy media pushed this narrative long and far. Too bad it was all a lie! They lied to protect his money. He quit… the team had every right to claw back that money. His mom started the bullying narrative with @espn… https://t.co/ifFFJPG1H7

— Richie Incognito (@68INCOGNITO) February 16, 2025

Richie Incognito is an asshole

I understand Richie Incognito feeling as though this bullying story ruined his career and that the Martin family took food off of his plate.

But if Richie Incognito wanted a long, bountiful NFL career, he probably shouldn’t have been hazing rookies so harshly that their mothers had to get involved.

Whether Martin regrets his actions or feels like the story got away from him and he never intended to make a big deal of the situation, Incognito still said and did strange shit to that man.

Richie Incognito is still an asshole.

If you worked at Rite Aid and disrespected a new hire to the point where they clocked out, got in their car and called their mom upset about what you were saying or doing—whether that new hire is exaggerating or not—you probably went too far—and it wouldn’t be outrageous for Rite Aid to fire you for your conduct.

Richie Incognito sucks. Do not ever forget this.

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