It appeared for a while on Friday night that Dolphins guard Richie Incognito had pulled the plug on his Twitter account. He hadn’t.
At some point since Friday night, he did.
Yes, the account otherwise known as @68INCOGNITO is no more. While it may have been a rash reaction to the abuse he was taking on Twitter after the Wells report was released -- a blow back that surely was enhanced by his prior boasts and proclamations that he’d be exonerated -- the move may have resulted from the advice of Incognito’s agents and lawyers. Even if Incognito had managed to make it through 23 hours and 59 minutes of a given day without saying something that could work against his effort to avoid further punishment from the NFL or find a new team as of March 11, in that one remaining minute his alter ego known as The Tornado could have wrecked everything.
It was a smart move, given that Richie’s alternative to continuing his NFL career is finding a real job in a real workplace that wouldn’t tolerate two percent of the stuff he routinely said and did in Miami.
So the next we’ll hear from Richie likely will come from his agents or lawyers, especially since attorney Mark Schamel declared on Friday that the Wells report is “replete with errors.”
In more than two days since then, neither Schamel nor Incognito have identified a single erroneous fact, inference, or conclusion contained in the 144-page report. Schamel, however, has promised a thorough analysis of the report.