We had a rookie QB who was putting up a ok effort and Incognito destroyed 2 drives and cries wolf.

I’m extremely tired of his act and I can imagine what his teammates think of him.

Intensity? Blocking skills? The Bryan Cox back pad?
Regardless of which answer I or anyone else chooses, the value of any of those at this point is irrelevant, save for maybe the back pad. While we rightly focus on his bonehead-ery, I’d just like to make sure we recognize that what he brings to the table isn’t all that useful right now.

when he has downtime, his bonehead-ery comes back to the surface. It seemed to have been quelled, but apparently continuing to watch your team lose and not being able to contribute to the downfall takes its toll.

I did vote to play him, but there’s not really a choice with as many injuries as this team has incurred.

If the rest of the team could take some of his energy and distribute it, I think we’d have a very competitive football team. And maybe it would take him down just enough to keep his energy between the whistles.

He is a good blocker, albeit stupid, and the Rams aren’t going anywhere this season. Give Greco some playing time and let Cogs play. No sense in getting Null hurt.

But the more I think about it, maybe he has something 51 other Rams, especially Alex Barron, don’t have. That’s emotion, intensity, anger, frustration and a gut sickness for being the laughing stock of the NFL. If I were 1-12, I think I’d wanna head-butt somebody too. I remember how I used to watch Bulger walk off the field after tossing a game losing interception looking just like he didn’t have a care in the world. Or Spags clapping his hands in the 4th quarter when we’re down by 30 points. Maybe we need more fiery players (and coaches) instead of “pillars.”

its amazing how i always seem to agree with your assesments edpjr, as far as richie goes i can see where his frustration level has got to be outta this world and hey after 13 weeks or so of playing good and penalty free he finally had another melt down, it happens i also wish the rest of the team had some fire.Its funny you speak of Bulger walking off after losing like it was no big deal, I remember when he first took over from Kurt when in an interview he told the reporter that he only played football to make his dad happy because he personally didn’t really care for it but his dad loved it, well it showed many times thru his career and the rest of this team seems to have that same sorry ass attitude, its all about the money and thats it

if we were a better team id say get rid of him because his penalty’s take us out of the game if you really are worried about this guys attitude did you see the scoreboard? What Ritchie needs to do is learn to sh!t talk better. Let the other guy start the confrontation and headbutt you so you can push him and throw him because the other guys did that to Ritchie. Still think he’s a very talented football player with that fire spags is looking for. Just tone it down because the Pillars are going to collapse.

With Incognito acting up again, and with Barron being Barron, if the Rams choose to cut both players, that’s two starters gone from our O-Line.

Even if we move Jason Smith to LT, and give Goldberg the RT spot, we still need a new starting RG, not to mention we lose our super-sub in Goldberg.

Our young O-Line was supposed to be our most promising unit this year, and it’s just sad that the Rams will have to once again target the O-Line either in the draft or in FA.

I don’t think Richie had a lot of cool to lose. He’s always been a loose cannon, and always been one ugly play away from suspension.

Having dealt with talnted hotheads on occassion, I would be a little reluctant to do too much with the on field actions. A 1 game suspension? Maybe. You don’t to dampen the fight in the dog, but need him to find legal ways to let it out, that’s all.

Football is a very violent game. You get some guys drawn to it that are a little unleashed sometimes. Its not ballet, these are not bellerinas. You don’t ignore it, but you deal with that as a coach.

If he hurt the team so as to lose a game, then you’d have to really do something, but if the game result didn’t cost much more than a Barron bonehead play, then you can be diplomatic to a certain extent.

The jawwing at the coach however, is something else. That’s even stupider than a headbutt. If he doesn’t understand he needs the coach on his side we could have a serious breakdown. That might get the bigger penalty in terms of suspension or whatever. From me it probably would. That’s just me though, I don’t play that.

One of the big downsides of his temper that draws personal fouls is that it can be a hugh ‘momentum killer’ just like this past Sunday. Null & company was worked the ball up the field only to be handed a 15 yard penalty.

I’m sorry, but enough is enough. I don’t care how great a player he is (is he even among the top 10 tackles in the League?) I’m getting tired of him causing set backs. It’s time to move on…could we even get a good trade for him? Cincinnati Bengals might trade for him, they seem to like ‘bad boys’.

Go Rams!

Cogs lost control in the first game and coach kept him under control until this last game. in the games he’s played, he’s played well (imo) and is our best option at RG, but he does need to be strainghtened out by Coach Spags. the coach really needs to get in this guys head and teach him to act professional. but i like his intensity and would love to see all the linemen play with the same fire that Cogs plays with, minus the bone headed breakdowns.