If you want the real story, Richie Incognito’s got you covered. The former Bills lineman claims to “know the full story” involving running back LeSean McCoy and ex-girlfriend Delicia Cordon, whose lawyer said she was assaulted. “I support and stand by my boy, Shady,” Incognito tweeted Tuesday night. “I know the full story and he didn’t do it. People can be quick to make false assumptions without knowing the full story.” Cordon’s friend uploaded a brutal photo of her Tuesday, alleging, among other claims, that McCoy was behind the attack. On Tuesday night, Cordon’s lawyer said Cordon’s Georgia home was broken into, and the attacker demanded jewelry that McCoy had gifted her and requested back. Cordon’s lawyer suggested McCoy orchestrated the attack, and McCoy hired his own lawyer Wednesday. Incognito, a Bills teammate of McCoy’s from 2015 to 2017, doesn’t buy the story seemingly from afar, saying Cordon was living a “fake lifestyle.” “She was definitely assaulted,” Incognito tweeted. “Police were involved. Shady was in Florida and she was in Atlanta.” Incognito, forever known as the bully in the Dolphins’ Bullygate scandal, retired earlier this offseason, yet was then released from the retired list and is a free agent.<doc-sep>Incognito, the player responsible for the BullyGate scandal in 2013 involving former Dolphins teammate Jonathan Martin, did not deny that the assault occurred, but seemed to suggest that if McCoy was in fact not the one who attacked her, then he must be innocent.<doc-sep>LeSean McCoy has had some pretty serious acquisitions levied against him. In a now deleted post off Instagram, McCoy’s ex-girlfriend was seen with a bloody face, and McCoy was accused of beating her, McCoy’s son and also a dog. Former Bills teammate Richie Incognito came to the star running backs defense Tuesday night on Twitter. I support and stand by my boy, Shady. I know the full story and he didn't do it. People can be quick to make false assumptions without knowing the full story. — Richard Dominick Incognito Jr. (@68INCOGNITO) July 11, 2018 Incognito also said she was living a fake lifestyle and in a later tweet said McCoy was in Florida and the assault happened in Atlanta. The assault did happen in Atlanta, and McCoy does have proof that he was in Florida, but that’s not against what anyone is saying. The woman’s lawyers are more or less saying that McCoy hired someone to go to Atlanta, break into the house and retrieve specific items that McCoy had gifted her. LeSean McCoy has denied the allegations and the NFL and police are investigating the matter. This story should play itself out more over the next few weeks but it wouldn’t be shocking to see McCoy go on the commissioner’s exempt list while this plays itself out. It doesn’t matter how this plays out in court, McCoy could still be suspended even if no charges are brought against him. The NFL has shown time and time again that just because the law doesn’t find a player guilty, they will still suspend him. Ezekiel Elliott didn’t face charges for an alleged abuse situation with a woman, but the NFL still suspended him saying he committed domestic violence. This still has a long ways to go before it is resolved, but it could be heading in the same direction.<doc-sep>For more than a year, LeSean McCoy and his ex-girlfriend, Delicia Cordon, have been locked in a legal battle over the home they once shared in suburban Atlanta. A hearing was scheduled Tuesday but was postponed because Cordon’s attorney could not appear due to a family emergency. Early Tuesday morning, a 911 call was reportedly placed from the home, alleging a “home invasion” where a “female was assaulted.” Late Tuesday morning, a friend of Cordon’s posted, via Instagram, a photo of a woman, presumed to be Cordon, with a bruised and bloodied face. In the caption, she blames McCoy. That post was taken down as of Tuesday evening. LeSean McCoy and Delicia Cordon at at Super Bowl party in 2017. (Getty) “I can’t believe you did this to my best friend!!!!! YOUR KARMA IS GOING TO BE SO REAL!!!!!! The world needs to know what type of animal you really are!!!!!! !” the caption read. (The image can be seen below. Viewer discretion is advised.) McCoy has denied the allegation. The eviction battle According to court filings, Delicia Cordon and her children lived with McCoy at his Alpharetta, Georgia, home beginning in October 2016. Cordon charged in a June 22 court filing that she and McCoy had been in a relationship “for at least two (2) years.” However, McCoy had filed a dispossessory affidavit – basically, a request for eviction – against Cordon on July 3, 2017. McCoy, the owner of the property, noted in the 2017 filing that he and Cordon were “no longer in relationship and Plaintiff [McCoy] allowed Defendant [Cordon] to live rent-free while at premises for 5 months.” In that affidavit, McCoy demanded “possession of the premises,” but did not seek any accrued rent or other compensation. That affidavit was returned “NON EST” – that is, unserved – because both parties shared the same address. The home According to online records, the 5-bedroom, 5,500-square foot home in Alpharetta was purchased in October, 2016, for $822,000. It’s located about 40 miles north of Atlanta. LeSean McCoy’s home in Alpharetta, Georgia. (Yahoo Sports) The legal battle heats up According to Cordon, McCoy was “discussing marriage” as recently as Memorial Day of this year, and gave Cordon “a substantial gift” on May 29. The next day, McCoy traveled to Buffalo for OTAs, and has remained out of the state of Georgia ever since. Story continues In a court filing, Cordon claims to have left the Alpharetta home on May 31 to attend her sister’s graduation and said McCoy had agreed to meet her in Virginia for the graduation. However, while Cordon was gone, McCoy allegedly enlisted friends and family members to begin removing Cordon’s furniture from the house – without, she claims, her knowledge. She spotted the movement on in-home security cameras piped to her cell phone and called the police. That halted the removal of furniture, but McCoy also apparently shut off the electricity to the house. So McCoy – through an associate, Tamarcus Porter, who is not an attorney – filed another dispossessory affidavit on June 6, this time against “Delicia Cordon and all others” living at the Alpharetta address. “Defendant is ex-girlfriend of owner/plaintiff and refuses to leave,” McCoy wrote. In addition, he demanded in this affidavit that Cordon “return any/all items removed from premises.” On June 11, a Fulton County process server served Cordon’s 16-year-old son with the affidavit. Eleven days later, Cordon filed to quash – i.e., dismiss – that affidavit, arguing both that Cordon’s minor son shouldn’t have been served, and that Porter lacked the standing to file on McCoy’s behalf. Cordon also claimed that she had never been asked to leave the house. Where the case stands now The case was slated to be heard Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Fulton County Justice Tower in downtown Atlanta. But Cordon’s attorney asked for a continuance – a delay in the hearing – based on a family emergency, and the judge in the matter, Judge Jaslovelin J. Lall, had agreed to delay the case 30 days. The case is scheduled to be heard on Aug. 14. (Instagram) More from Yahoo Sports: • Ex-Panthers owner’s farewell was missing one pretty huge detail • Ronaldo’s blockbuster transfer is a done deal • MLB player retires at 28 to help people with eating disorders • How a child-molesting trainer and teenage steroid user has come to define Latin American baseball<doc-sep>
The Bills, the NFL, and authorities in Georgia currently have begun the process of piecing together the events leading to the vicious beating of Delicia Cordon, and whether Bills running back LeSean McCoy had any responsibility for it. They probably should speak to former Bills offensive lineman Richie Incognito. “I support and stand by my boy, Shady,” Incognito said Tuesday night on Twitter. “I know the full story and he didn’t do it. People can be quick to make false assumptions without knowing the full story.” In a separate tweet, Incognito said of Cordon, “Enough with this fake lifestyle she was living.” It’s unclear whether Incognito is simply claiming that McCoy didn’t personally assault Cordon or whether Incognito knows (or thinks he knows) with certainty that McCoy had no involvement with it. “She was definitely assaulted,” Incognito tweeted. “Police were involved. Shady was in Florida and she was in Atlanta.” But no one seems to be saying (at this point) that McCoy actually performed the assault. The question is whether (as strongly implied by Cordon’s lawyers) McCoy essentially played the Rae Carruth/Jeff Gillooly role, pulling the strings and/or pushing the buttons (and/or paying the money) necessary to get someone to invade the house McCoy owns, retrieve specific items of jewelry that McCoy had given to Cordon, and send a message in extreme physical fashion. If there’s any truth to the not-so-subtle allegation made by Cordon’s lawyers, it’s entirely possible that a Fargo-style scenario played out here, with the brutal assault of Cordon not part of the plan but something that just happened in the moment. That definitely wouldn’t insulate McCoy from scrutiny by the league or the law, but at this point no possibility should be ruled out. And the Bills, the league, and the authorities may want to get in touch with Incognito, if for no reason other than to find out whether he has communicated in the past day with McCoy (especially by text), and what McCoy specifically had to say.