Former New York Jets and Baltimore Ravens linebacker Bart Scott was the latest person to give their two cents on suspended Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito, who was kicked off the team indefinitely for his alleged bullying of teammate Jonathan Martin. Bart said he wants to see Incognito kicked out of the league for his actions towards his teammate.
"I want to see [NFL commissioner] Roger Goodell step up and talking about player conduct and protecting the shield -- this guy needs to be out of this league," Scott said on ESPN radio. "He needs to be gone. No one would miss him, anyway. Trust me."
Martin left the team due to his claims of his teammates bullying him and is still not with the team, while Incognito was sought out by the team through an investigation as the "ring leader" of the bullying. Bart called Incognito a "fake tough guy" and said that he wasn't surprised to find out that Incognito was the ring leader of the bullying.
"It doesn't surprise me one bit. He's a fake tough guy," Scott told ESPN. "He's a guy that suffers from mood swings, if you know what I mean. That's something we've always known," said Scott, who competed against Incognito during his career. "One of the dirtiest players, if not the dirtiest player I've ever played against."
Scott, who was involved in some rookie hazing of his own that was caught by HBO cameras on the show Hard Knocks in 2010 where he assisted in strapping cornerback Brian Jackson to the goal post before showering him in Gatorade and Icy Hot, admitted that rookie hazing is part of the locker room atmosphere but that Incognito took it a step too far.
"Take it to a point where you're harassing him by phone?" Scott said via ESPN. "You got to be some type of loser in your spare time away from the building you want to call me and leave threatening messages and text messages on my phone. That's taking bullying to a whole other level."
Scott said it was fortunate that the situation didn't escalate and the fact that Martin is 6-foot-5 and 312 pounds shows that anyone can be a victim.
"They better be lucky that this kid didn't reach one of the points that some of these other people get bullied and bring a gun to work and we have some type of tragic incident on our hands because he can't just take enough," Scott said per ESPN. "Thank God that he just walked away."
Scott, who once threw a punch in Incognito's direction following a game and called him a coward, said he was disgusted with the way the veterans on the Dolphins and the team's front office handled the situation.
"There's no way somebody can be that uncomfortable and that bullied that you don't know when you spend that much time with him and there's that many eyes around him at the same time," he told ESPN.
With the story gaining steam and negative attention, it would seem as though Incognito's time in the NFL could be over.
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