Today our light shines on you, Mr. Incognito, for your two drive-killing personal fouls yesterday in the Rams’ 28-0 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. I know the loss was not all your fault, and maybe those drives were about to stall out anyway, but you’ve become the target for fan’s frustration. Luckily for you your coach likes your ‘passion’. And that is all fine and everything, that the coach likes your passion, I just have a couple problems with it.

First, the whole episode makes one think that a lot less has changed around Ram’s Park than we were lead to believe. The new regime was supposed to be a breath of fresh air, and a step in the right direction, etc., from the previous leadership. And all off season we have been hearing about how things are so much more functional, and on the right track. And maybe they are. I admit that possibly it’s not fair to jump to the conclusion that things are not what they seem after just one game, but I am not the only one to wonder today if all we have been hearing these last six months or so is just talk.

Second, Coach Spagnuolo has been consistently preaching a high standards, high accountability team-first message since he got here. Immediately coming to the defense of a player who clearly did not put the team first seems to fly in the face of that message.

I admit, maybe there is something I don’t know, or an angle I am not seeing, and like I said, I know it’s just one game. I also know winning a few games would make everyone forget all of this.