All this nonsense about Philbin needing to step in and stop Incognito from being in the leadership council. A leader, my friends, is someone that others will follow. As it turns out, a lot of players liked Incognito and they were willing to follow him. That's all there's to it. Nobody gets to decide who the leaders are except the people the leader's going to lead.
Then Philbin allowed the players to follow the wrong guy even more by allowing him to be on the leadership council, obviously. The results of that poor decision speak for themselves.