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DAVIE, Fla. -- Unaccustomed to interviews because hes a backup tackle, Will Yeatman stood before a couple of dozen reporters and cameramen, beads of sweat rolling down his forehead under the hot TV lights. When the questions about the Miami Dolphins bullying scandal quit coming, Yeatman sagged in the chair at his locker, relieved to be out of the media glare. "Whew," he said with a nervous chuckle, shaking his head. The Dolphins (4-4) have endured a week of withering scrutiny while trying to prepare for a game that is very much and afterthought outside their locker room. Theyll play Monday night at Tampa Bay (0-8), happy to shift the focus from their troubled locker room to the playing field, if only for a few hours. While the Buccaneers are winless, the Dolphins have descended into something worse -- a team under NFL investigation because of a bullying case thats national news. Tackle Jonathan Martin left the team last week and complained he endured daily abuse from teammates, including guard Richie Incognito, who was suspended. Martin will meet late next week in Los Angeles with the NFLs special investigator, a person familiar with the situation said Friday. The person confirmed the upcoming meeting to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league and team havent announced the details of the investigation. Meeting with Martin will be Ted Wells, a senior partner in a New York law firm who was appointed by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to investigate possible misconduct in the Dolphins workplace. The case threatens to sabotage the season, leaving the Dolphins missing two starters in an offensive line that played poorly even with them, while the team copes with the distraction of seemingly endless revelations and rumours. Theyve been impossible to ignore, as coach Joe Philbin knows, because he tried. "Unfortunately I called my 92-year-old father, and he was on the computer, so I had to tell him to get off the computer," Philbin said. Oddsmakers dont expect this weeks developments to have a big effect. The Dolphins opened as 3 1/2-point favourites before the case mushroomed into a full-blown scandal, and theyre now favoured by 2 1/2 points. Perhaps the Dolphins will channel all of the surrounding negative energy into a positive performance. Weary of fending off endless questions, theyve defended Incognito, Philbin and their locker room culture, speaking with a passion often lacking in their play this year. The team showed signs of dissension during a recent four-game losing streak, but the constant stream of allegations in the media have served as a unifying force. "Theyre attacking our coach. Theyre attacking the values of the rest of the people in this locker room. And they have the mike last," receiver Brian Hartline said. "Were kind of tired of it." While Hartline complained the team had been "bullied" by the media, other players wryly noted the lack of interest in the upcoming game. Defensive end Cameron Wake patiently parried a succession of questions from reporters, all about Martin and Incognito, then smiled when a pause came. "Nobody cares about Tampa, huh?" he said. The Dolphins do care about the Bucs, Wake said, and can shut out everything else. "Football is full of distractions, whether its the tweak in your ankle, the heat, snow, the rain, the mud, the guy across from you," he said. "All this stuff thats going on outside is kind of the same as the crowd noise on third down. We have to deal with it. Its all a part of the business, and you have to make sure you do your job." Doing the job has been a problem for the offensive line, which has given up an NFL-high 35 sacks while struggling to create running room. And now the starting lineup in the front five will change for the third game in a row. Centre Mike Pouncey and right guard John Jerry have been the only season-long constants. Bryant McKinnie will start his third game at left tackle since being acquired in a trade with Minnesota. Tyson Clabo will start at right tackle after being benched two weeks ago. Nate Garner will make his first start of the year at left guard in place of Incognito. Yeatman may see occasional action as a sixth lineman, which he did in last weeks win over Cincinnati. "Everyones focused on doing their job, and everyones job is to block the man across from them," Yeatman said, trying to ignore those beads of sweat. Tyler Johnson Jersey . The 25-year-old native of Milford, Conn., has 18 points in 41 games this season. The five-foot-eight 166-pound centre also has 28 points (10-18) in 15 games with AHL Oklahoma City. Tyler Herro Heat Jersey . They say things like "stress is when you dont know what youre doing" and "I wasnt hired to motivate players, I was hired to coach motivated players." 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Corban Knight and Max Reinhart scored for the Heat (1-1-0), who opened their season Friday with a 5-2 win over the Monsters in Cleveland.COLUMBUS, Ohio - Not so long ago, the Columbus Blue Jackets were looking for ways to lose.Now they are doing the opposite.Kevin Connauton scored his first goal of the season off a lead pass from Ryan Johansen at 1:58 of overtime to help the Blue Jackets overcome a late goal and get past the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Tuesday night for their fourth straight win.When you arent winning games, thats kind of the mentality, coach Todd Richards said of his clubs recent defeatist attitude due to a long list of injuries. You can feel this team starting to get its spirit back. There was a stretch there were thats what we had lost.Johansen took a drop pass and waited for Connauton to slip past Matt Read. He then fed a pass to Connauton for the high shot that beat Steve Mason, who made his first start in Columbus since being traded to the Flyers.I dont know if I would have jumped (up) there, but it was four on four and they got caught with three guys low, said Connauton, a waiver pickup from Dallas playing his seventh game with Columbus. We got that two-on-one. Joey made an unbelievable play to draw that defenceman over and create the breakaway for me.Boone Jenner scored in his career-best fourth straight game, and longtime Flyers forward Scott Hartnell also had a goal for Columbus. Sergei Bobrovsky made 19 saves for the Blue Jackets, who followed a 2-13-2 stretch with their four straight wins.Brayden Schenn had both goals for the Flyers, including one after a video review with 55.3 seconds left in the third period. Mason stopped 21 shots.With the Flyers trailing 2-1, former Columbus forward Jakub Voraceks shot from the point deflected off Schenn in the crease and trickled through Bobrovskys pads. The on-ice call of no goal was oveerturned.ddddddddddddThe third period we pushed and played a lot better, said coach Craig Berube, whose club played the last of a five-game, 11-day trip, and had lost 10 of 11 before beating Los Angeles on Saturday.Mason, who is 2-3 against Columbus since being traded in April 2013, said the Flyers deserved the point.But you put yourself in a position to get the second one and you cant come up with it, he said. In overtime, we made a mistake and its in the back of the net.Columbus, plagued by injuries all season, welcomed back centre Brandon Dubinsky. An integral leader, he played his first game of the season after abdominal surgery.Its all about the team right now, he said, after picking up an assist on Jenners goal. We needed the points.The Blue Jackets took a 2-1 lead with their second power-play goal in two chances.Defenceman Jack Johnson shot wide, but then centred the rebound off the back boards. Nick Foligno got a stick on it and the puck ended up between Hartnells skates. He jabbed at it twice before pivoting and scoring his sixth of the season but first in 13 games.When we were losing, we were just waiting for something to go bad, Hartnell said. Now were expecting to win.NOTES: Four-time All-Star Vincent Lecavalier was a healthy scratch for the fourth straight game for the Flyers. ... Philadelphia forward R.J. Umberger, playing his 700th career NHL game, was recognized on the scoreboards for his six seasons with the Blue Jackets. ... Dubinsky, playing his 499th career game, has 99 career goals. ... Bobrovsky was the second star in the NHL last week after going 3-0 with a 1.62 goals-against average and a .956 save percentage.___Follow Rusty Miller on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RustyMillerAP ' ' '