Richie Incognito Joins The Oakland Raiders
How the fuck does Richie Goddamn Incognito have a football job in 2019.
This is a guy who belongs in a hospital, in therapy. This is a dude who needs help. This is a dude who needs to be far away from the locker room culture. This is a dude who could honestly probably be locked up. The joke of this comic is how long his bullshit resume is, and I honestly probably could have dragged it out another 6 panels if I tried. Richie Incognito has arguably had more chances than any other football player I can remember. It’s ridiculous that after all he’s done to embarrass himself and his teams that he is still getting chances. He’s essentially the prototypical poster boy for the “Football meathead bro-douche” stereotype, with all of its negative connotations. Even if you want to go purely for football reasons because you’re that guy, he’s 35 years old and he literally temporarily “retired” from the Bills because a doctor told him his organs were failing.
Of course he’d end up on the Raiders. I have no idea what on earth Gruden is doing. I doubt Mike Mayock has much power, I’d wager he was hired as Gruden’s stooge. Gruden is a strong personality who hated Keyshawn Johnson and in this past offseason has employed Antonio Brown, Vontaze Burfict, and now Richie Incognito. What the hell is happening? Are they trying to make the last few seasons in Oakland a massive disaster to make the move less painful? I can’t expect he’ll be much of a player in Oakland. His best years are long behind and all that is left is probably the drugs and the hate.
Richie Incognito has had too many chances to justify another contract. Football might be the only thing he has going for him in life, but he’s such a time bomb of toxicity that he genuinely needs to be away from it as far as I can tell. He needs support. I realize his most recent “outburst” in the funeral home was related to his father’s passing and he certainly has my sympathies on that, but it doesn’t justify smashing up a funeral parlor and threatening to shoot everyone. I just want the guy to find peace at this point. I don’t think football will give him that. I think football is an unhealthy distraction that amplifies his problems. Get help, Richie.
LIFE UPDATE: A few things left to do this week with the house (mostly cleaning and unpacking) but we should be back on the regular schedule now.
Okay I love it. Idk his story at Nebraska and no idea he was at Oregon (f the ducks go beavers) but this is good. It is sad that Kaepernick can’t get a gig he is still started worthy assuming he still has it and if not better than at least 25 of backups (on the light side). Maybe Kaepernick needs to go to a gym and hurl dumb bells
Dude, kaep could have a job in the NFL, but he’s a fucking retard. His minimum price is 20 million/yr.
Is that an actual figure or are you pulling that number out of your cheeks? You know, the kind that never speak.
If so, prove it.
Nothin confirmed but that was apparently his asking price for the AAF according to some source somewhere: https://beta.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/02/15/report-colin-kaepernick-wanted-million-play-aaf
That’s what he requested from the AFL
It’s because he’s really good at disguising himself.
I have three issues here, but let me start by saying I hope the NFL suspends him the entire season for the stuff he’s already pled guilty of so he’s out of football for the year and the Raiders can’t use him anyway. So, the first and second issues are sort of related. Incognito did not bully Martin into depression. Martin was already suffering from depression when he was with the Dolphins; he’d been struggling with it since he was a teenager. Certainly Incognito didn’t help, but Martin definitely had other issues. However, bullying Martin was far and away not the worst thing he did that year. There was an incident early that year when, at a charity golf event, he molested a volunteer. I think this one is should be mentioned more (an also it disgusted that m the Dolphins kept him around after that).
On the topic of Kaepernick… Eh. I don’t think you can compare the two. Incognito is trying to make the team on the vet mininum and isn’t guaranteed a dollar. I doubt Kaep would do the same. And while Kaepernick is probably a better quarterback than most backups and probably more than a few starters, I’m not sure he would be a better fit in most situations.
This hits close to the heart being a lifetime phin fan… Incognito is a wildly troubled dude. I have to recognize he is skilled at masking his monstrous tendencies in his interviews and I’m pretty sure his “failing organs ” are a sad testament to what things players are willing to ingest to continue to play at a high level into mid thirties at one of the most brutal positions if the game. That said, he has consistently been one of the dirtiest players and feels to be one of the last of the ugly, big, smashmouth football style of the past. He is someone that i dont believe anybody wants to line up against. But what a piece of shit human!
“How the fuck does Richie Goddamn Incognito have a football job in 2019.”
He’s white.
Is he willing to work for pennies on the dollar? For those having to shell out the cash, that seems to work too.
2019 and we still have liberals acting like race is the only determining factor for getting a job
not only. but a contributing factor certainly.
Incongito is the poster child of the NFL’s mentality that if you are good at the sport, you can get away with anything short of murder and peaceful protest.
https://www.profootballhof.com/players/oj-simpson/
Nope. Just peaceful protest is the line, apparently.
To be fair, OJ was inducted in 1985, well before the (alleged?) murder. His career statistics certainly justified his entry.
From what I understand, Kaepernick has been offered contracts but isn’t even entertaining them at their diminished value. Yes it’s still dumb he doesn’t have a job, but it doesn’t sound like he wants a backup role or to even take a chance on a smaller contract. I think it’s too risky for him to do, because if he bets on himself and fails, all his detractors will say something dumb like, “he only protested because he couldn’t get a starting job.” And to be honest I don’t blame him one bit.
Richie Incognito though, was barely an average guard and was voted as dirtiest player in multiple player polls. He keeps getting a job because offensive line play has deminished and he’s willing to take a pay cut. No, he shouldn’t have a job in the NFL and never should have after the Dolphins. Maybe the Raiders are trying to build the least likable team possible.
I just assume there are certain franchises that are willing to take a chance on scumbags more than other. The Redskins are the best at this and seam to act like: “You’re offended by that signing? Have you seen our name? It’s way more outrageous!”
Richie Incognito was an above average guard most of his career and went to multiple pro bowls despite being a dirty toerag.
Had to verify – and that actually checks out (he has some quality season according to profootballfocus). I just remember that in those dirty player polls, the d-linemen who played against him were quoted saying he wasn’t that good which is why he played dirty.
That’s a very fair point but I don’t think very many coaches care how he’s doing it as long as he isn’t getting beaten nor drawing flags.
Don’t forget Nathan Peterman is on the Raiders
Eh, Peterman didn’t do anything malicious though like what AB, Burfict, and Incognito did, he just stunk it up horrendously. He does fall into another category of players the Raiders keep signing though: failed Bills QBs
No, he’s not a horrible person or done any of the prima donna stuff, but at the end of the day…the Raiders signed Nathan Peterman
oh, yay, more preaching and virtue signaling.
virtue signalling? the man is a dirty player and a terrible human being. he is over the hill, a cancer in the locker room, and should probably not be medically cleared to play on a strictly physical level. this is to say nothing of his numerous incidents of mental instability. this is a football comic, it’s absolutely fair play to state all of these things. toughen up, snowflake.
Can we stop pretending like kneeling players have been penalized at this point?
Eric Reid got a goddamn extension for fucks sake.
And about Kaepernick, if he really wanted to play he’d come out and say it himself.