[Mick]

This story grows sadder and stranger with time.  Incognito was just arrested for threatening gun violence in a funeral home.  He told officers that he had a pile of guns in his car, and it was true.  His behavior was paranoid and deranged.  

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/24436...ng-threats

Or, more likely, they both have been and are suffering from symptoms of CTE. I know I sound like the squawking and unpopular canary in the coalmine that no football fan wants to listen to, but all of these incidents are eerily reminiscent of prior (now-deceased) former players' actions that were explained, post-mortem, as mid-to-advanced stage CTE. This sport has a serious problem, and it's only a matter of time before there's a #metoo equivalent moment of reckoning that will force everyone to stop and take stock. I hate to say it, but one day one of these Martin/Incognito/someone else situations actually will turn into a massively fatal encounter, and the collateral damage will be too great for everyone to politely look away.

I only played two years of bad high school football, and I took three shots to the head that affected me somewhat profoundly.  I couldn't even imagine what the effect would be from a much greater number of hits with much more force and much more speed behind them.

[Mick]

This story grows sadder and stranger with time.  Incognito was just arrested for threatening gun violence in a funeral home.  He told officers that he had a pile of guns in his car, and it was true.  His behavior was paranoid and deranged.  

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/24436...ng-threats

Or, more likely, they both have been and are suffering from symptoms of CTE. I know I sound like the squawking and unpopular canary in the coalmine that no football fan wants to listen to, but all of these incidents are eerily reminiscent of prior (now-deceased) former players' actions that were explained, post-mortem, as mid-to-advanced stage CTE. This sport has a serious problem, and it's only a matter of time before there's a #metoo equivalent moment of reckoning that will force everyone to stop and take stock. I hate to say it, but one day one of these Martin/Incognito/someone else situations actually will turn into a massively fatal encounter, and the collateral damage will be too great for everyone to politely look away.

I only played two years of bad high school football, and I took three shots to the head that affected me somewhat profoundly.  I couldn't even imagine what the effect would be from a much greater number of hits with much more force and much more speed behind them.