Richie Incognito holds nothing back on his feelings about Thursday Night games

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Richie Incognito after Bills’ loss to Jets: NFL’s Thursday night games ‘ridiculous’ and ‘unfair’
BY JAKE BECKER

TOM SZCZERBOWSKI/GETTY IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES

Richie Incognito is no fan of Thursday Night Football.

The Bills guard complained to reporters after Buffalo’s 34-21 loss to the Jets on Thursday, calling BS on the NFL’s decision to schedule teams to play on a short week.

"These Thursday night games — they suck," Incognito said. "They throw a wrench in our schedule. It's absolutely ridiculous that we have to do this. As physical as this game is, as much work and preparation that goes into this, to force us to play games on four-day weeks, it's completely unfair and bulls--t. The league makes money off it, and that's all they care about anyway."

The Jets had the same quick turnaround after playing on Sunday, but Incognito still had plenty to be upset about.

He and the rest of Buffalo’s offensive line flopped in front of quarterback Tyrod Taylor, allowing seven sacks and 11 QB hits to a Jets team that tallied 11 sacks in the first eight games of the season.

The Bills hadn’t given up that many sacks in a game since Week 2 of the 2015 season. The team’s running game didn’t fare much better: their 63 rushing yards were the fewest since Week 4 in 2015.

Buffalo (5-3) also failed to gain ground on the Patriots (6-2), who maintain their lead atop the AFC East.

Incognito didn’t place all on the blame on the NFL’s expanded Thursday night slate, admitting that the Bills were “outplayed” at MetLife Stadium.

At least he can look forward to a lengthy break before next Sunday’s home tilt against the Saints.

 

[den-the-coach]

I agree you want a better product, don't water it down, but somebody needs to let Incognito know that less games aired, means less money and that includes less for the players so it's a double edged sward.

 

[-X-]

I'll say it again.
Let every Thursday Night team have a bye the week before it.
That way they get 10 days off before the game, and 9 days off after it.

 

[OldSchool]

Funny how Richie fails to acknowledge one of the teams played well off the same amount of rest. Bills and Jets both played their previous games on Sunday the 29th. Both were at home so travel wasn't an issue. One team prepared for the game the other clearly did not. Don't blame the game being on Thursday Richie. Blame your team and coaches for not getting you ready for the game like the Jets did. You got outplayed not out scheduled.

Oh and Richie when the league makes money the players make money as well. Salary cap keeps going up with more money to pay players as the league makes more money.

 

[Corbin]

The Incognatard strikes again!


STFU! How about you give back all that money you get paid to have a 4 day work week fuck face?

 

[Loyal]

I wonder how much Ritchie would be complaining if the Bills had won? Yeaaah....stfu, Ritchie...It's only unfair if every team didn't go through it.

 

[LesBaker]

The Incognatard strikes again!


STFU! How about you give back all that money you get paid to have a 4 day work week freak face?

Well there's a cogent argument.

Sidenote..........Thursday night games have been good lately. But I can do without them and don't really watch them anyway.

 

[Akrasian]

He has a certain point. Thursday night games - because of the shorter week with a day taken up by travel time for the visitors - are won somewhat more often by the home team than is normal. So that does alter competitiveness to a small extent.

However, it's a small difference, and it does add a chunk of cash to the league. I don't like them overall, but I'm sure Incognito does like the extra money.

 

[OC--LeftCoast]

Well there's a cogent argument.

Sidenote..........Thursday night games have been good lately. But I can do without them and don't really watch them anyway.

“Cogent”?

Leave it to Les to send me scurrying for a dictionary

 

[bubbaramfan]

Cogent------two men trying to be nice at the same time

 

[Corbin]

Well there's a cogent argument.

Sidenote..........Thursday night games have been good lately. But I can do without them and don't really watch them anyway.

You have your mind set on a Thursday night game argument.

It wasn’t meant to be an arguementitive statement, it was an imperative statement.

 

[Dodgersrf]

I'll say it again.
Let every Thursday Night team have a bye the week before it.
That way they get 10 days off before the game, and 9 days off after it.

And start the season a couple weeks early. Give teams 2 bye weeks.

 

[nighttrain]

And start the season a couple weeks early. Give teams 2 bye weeks.

one less preseason game would do it
train

 

[jrry32]

Richie has never been much good at holding his feelings back. At least he didn't headbutt anyone this time.

 

[VegasRam]

Life ain’t fair. And every team goes through it. These guys are in their twenties, and it’s a rough game, but it’s what they do. They’ll live.

I would submit, the Rams’ recent road trip was worse.

As an aside, I STILL like Ritchie, and wish he was a Ram.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

The Incognatard strikes again!


STFU! How about you give back all that money you get paid to have a 4 day work week freak face?

Wow lots of hostility toward Richie.

 

[badnews]

Richie Incognito is an assclown.


The guy has never had the kind of character you want on your team. He is an undisciplined dipshit who many of us can still clearly remember watching him single handedly lose games because of his inability to put the team before his own selfish attitude.

He is a Kenny Britt. Always most comfortable on a losing team for a shitshow franchise that will let him get away with his "7 and 9 bullcrap" character.
Had Richie still been a Ram, McVay would have sent him packing.

 

[Prime Time]

https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/11/03/richie-incognito-has-more-thoughts-thursday-night-football

Richie Incognito Has More to Say About Thursday Night Football
By Albert Breer

Richie Incognito wasn’t feeling so hot when he called on Friday morning. But as he sees it, that only bolsters the point he was trying to make in the losing locker room on Thursday, after the Jets ran his Bills out of MetLife Stadium by a 34-21 count.

“I feel like dog----, but I had a rough go,” Incognito said on Friday morning. “I had to take some painkillers for my ankle (before the game) and then I got motion sick on the flight home. I got home at 2:45 a.m. and I couldn’t get to sleep, so I laid in bed until 6 a.m. So yeah, I’m working on three hours of sleep. That’s it. The short week got me. Short Week 1, Richie Incognito 0.

“And I do acknowledge the fact that I sound like a whiny b----. My phone’s been blowing up this morning—‘Why you pouting about Thursday?’ . . . Just give me seven days to prepare for the Jets!”

Like he said, the Buffalo Pro Bowler knows what you’re thinking. He’s a cranky 34-year-old whose team just beaten handily in a division game, and the first thing he does is give himself and his teammates a crutch.

The truth? Incognito says he’s felt like this about playing on Thursdays all along. It just happened to be highlighted this week, thanks to a convergence of factors that made him especially cranky about it after the game. First, Incognito hurt his ankle two Sundays ago against the Bucs, and played through that on Sunday against Oakland, then had to turn around play against four days later. Second, the Bills were the road team. Third, his team didn’t play well. But his stance, he says, is unchanged.

“I know I put myself at more risk, going out there on a short week on a hurt ankle,” Incognito said. “You take player safety and you throw it right out the window when you’ve got guys playing a tough game against the Oakland Raiders, Sunday at 1 p.m., and four days later, at 8:30 on the road, you’re playing another physical game.

“So if you want to talk about player safety, you want to talk about concussions, you want to talk about all these initiatives, but we’re gonna throw all that stuff out the window and ignore it just so we can play Thursday night?”

And, Incognito explained, it’s not just the rest he missed. As it was, Wednesday was a travel day for the Bills. Had the Jets game been on Sunday, Incognito’s week would’ve looked like this: Soft-tissue work on Wednesday; Massage/treatment on Thursday; Massage/Pilates/IV/treatment on Friday; and more treatment before travel on Saturday.

“So I’m missing out on all these opportunities to get better just to wedge in there a commercially packaged Thursday night game.” As a result, he said, “You get to the Thursday game, and even the healthy guys, it’s just, ‘f---, let’s just get through this.’ And coaches don’t know whether to practice you or not practice you. It’s the struggle of, ‘Do we walk through, do we practice? Did we get enough looks? Is our gameplan too simple?’ It’s a nightmare.”

And that brings us to the larger point I asked Incognito about, which involves the money, and the hard fact that the players get a percentage of what owners make, and owners make more because there’s an extra night of football during the week.

Incognito countered by citing the ratings, and made two points. First, he believes the “let’s just get through this” mentality makes the quality of play poor on Thursday nights. Second, he’s buying on the feeling that networks have expressed to the league, that the raw amount of football out there to be consumed is having an effect on the viewership.

“It’s money off the table on one end,” he said. “But that’s a double-edged sword. We’re experiencing a ratings decline, and it’s oversaturation of football. Take the Thursday slate away, put it all on Sunday. Yeah, they made a nice little TV package out of it, obviously they’re making a ton of money for it, and in reality it’s probably not going anywhere. So yeah, there’s probably no solution to this. I’m just saying that as a player, as a competitor, as someone that has to do this, it’s just a b----.”

 

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https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/11/03/richie-incognito-has-more-thoughts-thursday-night-football

Richie Incognito Has More to Say About Thursday Night Football
By Albert Breer

Richie Incognito wasn’t feeling so hot when he called on Friday morning. But as he sees it, that only bolsters the point he was trying to make in the losing locker room on Thursday, after the Jets ran his Bills out of MetLife Stadium by a 34-21 count.

“I feel like dog----, but I had a rough go,” Incognito said on Friday morning. “I had to take some painkillers for my ankle (before the game) and then I got motion sick on the flight home. I got home at 2:45 a.m. and I couldn’t get to sleep, so I laid in bed until 6 a.m. So yeah, I’m working on three hours of sleep. That’s it. The short week got me. Short Week 1, Richie Incognito 0.

“And I do acknowledge the fact that I sound like a whiny b----. My phone’s been blowing up this morning—‘Why you pouting about Thursday?’ . . . Just give me seven days to prepare for the Jets!”

Like he said, the Buffalo Pro Bowler knows what you’re thinking. He’s a cranky 34-year-old whose team just beaten handily in a division game, and the first thing he does is give himself and his teammates a crutch.

The truth? Incognito says he’s felt like this about playing on Thursdays all along. It just happened to be highlighted this week, thanks to a convergence of factors that made him especially cranky about it after the game. First, Incognito hurt his ankle two Sundays ago against the Bucs, and played through that on Sunday against Oakland, then had to turn around play against four days later. Second, the Bills were the road team. Third, his team didn’t play well. But his stance, he says, is unchanged.

“I know I put myself at more risk, going out there on a short week on a hurt ankle,” Incognito said. “You take player safety and you throw it right out the window when you’ve got guys playing a tough game against the Oakland Raiders, Sunday at 1 p.m., and four days later, at 8:30 on the road, you’re playing another physical game.

“So if you want to talk about player safety, you want to talk about concussions, you want to talk about all these initiatives, but we’re gonna throw all that stuff out the window and ignore it just so we can play Thursday night?”

And, Incognito explained, it’s not just the rest he missed. As it was, Wednesday was a travel day for the Bills. Had the Jets game been on Sunday, Incognito’s week would’ve looked like this: Soft-tissue work on Wednesday; Massage/treatment on Thursday; Massage/Pilates/IV/treatment on Friday; and more treatment before travel on Saturday.

“So I’m missing out on all these opportunities to get better just to wedge in there a commercially packaged Thursday night game.” As a result, he said, “You get to the Thursday game, and even the healthy guys, it’s just, ‘f---, let’s just get through this.’ And coaches don’t know whether to practice you or not practice you. It’s the struggle of, ‘Do we walk through, do we practice? Did we get enough looks? Is our gameplan too simple?’ It’s a nightmare.”

And that brings us to the larger point I asked Incognito about, which involves the money, and the hard fact that the players get a percentage of what owners make, and owners make more because there’s an extra night of football during the week.

Incognito countered by citing the ratings, and made two points. First, he believes the “let’s just get through this” mentality makes the quality of play poor on Thursday nights. Second, he’s buying on the feeling that networks have expressed to the league, that the raw amount of football out there to be consumed is having an effect on the viewership.

“It’s money off the table on one end,” he said. “But that’s a double-edged sword. We’re experiencing a ratings decline, and it’s oversaturation of football. Take the Thursday slate away, put it all on Sunday. Yeah, they made a nice little TV package out of it, obviously they’re making a ton of money for it, and in reality it’s probably not going anywhere. So yeah, there’s probably no solution to this. I’m just saying that as a player, as a competitor, as someone that has to do this, it’s just a b----.”

Hey. Richie. I was on call for 12 days in a row and had to work 97 hours last week.
For a fraction of what you make.
Go play with your ball.