I'm sure many of you know about my stories with Richie, but he was basically an old-school dude in an era that was shifting from that being acceptable. You think back to when our 90s players that were like Richie would try to make guys quit for not going hard, urinate through their locker on their shoes if they weren't wearing the proper Adidas gear, that happens now and a coach is probably fired. Think of some of the stories about the Peter brothers on old O street in the offseason and after games, if Richie was a decade earlier he's probably fine. He wasn't and honestly he had trouble figuring out when he was getting to the line, so he just went way past it.
While throwing the N-bomb at someone is never ok, I always go back to the story to illustrate what I talk about with him. Go watch the leaked video where him and Pouncey are playing pool in a Miami bar and he's using that word in front of him (not at him) and nothing comes of it. For a guy like Richie, it's very much a "I use that word all the time with a guy way better than you" mentality on why he thinks he could use it with a guy like Martin.
Not defending the guy, I just find it fascinating that if he were a 90s Osborne guy for us he may have been one of those we were glad he is back around helping coach like Jason Peter was with Frost, despite all of the stuff we know about him.