Mark Cannizzaro

Mark Cannizzaro

NFL

Nobody in Incognito case will come out clean

After a maelstrom of maneuvering agendas involving the Dolphins, Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin for the last week, there was calm in South Florida on Friday.

It was, however, very likely a calm before more storms, because this mess is far from over, with more damning information and allegations certain to be revealed in the coming days and weeks.

One day after Martin’s attorney, David Cornwell, dropped a 217-word bombshell statement on national television Thursday night — alleging a “malicious physical attack’’ on Martin by a teammate, along with some vile sexual threats toward his sister from a teammate — there was no answer from Incognito, whose camp has remained quiet.

The Dolphins players were off on Friday.

Meanwhile, the NFL has begun its independent investigation on the matter, having hired Ted Wells, a senior partner in a New York law firm with experience in sports cases, to head up the investigation on possible misconduct in the Dolphins workplace. According to reports, Wells is scheduled to meet with Martin late next week in California.

With all parties involved lawyering up at a faster rate than characters in a Dick Wolf television series, the closest thing you might find to anyone benefiting from this mess are the attorneys being hired.

You also can make an argument for the two players who will replace Incognito and Martin on the Dolphins’ starting offensive line — Nate Garner for Incognito and Tyson Clabo for Martin — as beneficiaries.

Other than that, no winners will emerge from this. Only losers.

This is not going to end well for anyone involved.

Incognito, whose reputation — spotty before this unfolded — has been nuked, is far too toxic for any team to chance bringing him into its locker room, possibly leaving his NFL career.

Martin, based on the rampant support of Incognito in the Miami locker room, will never be welcomed back by the Dolphins players and will have to find another team if he wants to play again — perhaps a soft landing in Indianapolis with his former Stanford quarterback, Andrew Luck, or in San Francisco with his former college coach, Jim Harbaugh.

Dolphins coach Joe Philbin, who has been the subject of reports he and his staff instructed Incognito to “toughen up’’ Martin, has to be a goner if that is found to be true.

Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland, who is alleged by a report to have told Martin’s agent to instruct his client to fight with Incognito and “punch’’ him, has to be removed from his duties if that is proven to be true.

That could leave Dolphins owner Stephen Ross with little option but to napalm his entire program and start over.

In the short term, the Dolphins players, who are coming off their best win of the season with their victory over the Bengals last week, have a chance to inject themselves into the thick of the playoff picture by getting to 5-4 with a win over the 0-8 Buccaneers Monday night.

The question is whether the week’s distractions will prove to be too much for them to handle and break them, or whether this will bond the team.

One NFL source familiar with the Dolphins predicted this unrest might actually benefit the team by drawing the players closer in an us-against-world way.

“If I had to bet on it, this may galvanize this team,’’ the source told The Post. “It may bring guys closer together. There are so many factors that are trying to tear the team apart, with those guys trying to keep their focus the best they can and this might make them stronger.’’