I think we need a linebacker

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(03-21-2018, 12:01 PM)motoarch Wrote: I don’t.  His antics wore on me along time ago.  He’s awesome when he’s not suspended or healing from a concussion that’s probably his own fault for tackling with his head, a head too stupid to protect itself.

Despite so many people blaming hill for our 2015 melt down I blame burfict.  He went from game MVP to loser in a span of 3 minutes.  Screw him im done with him.  I was done with him when tried twisting ankles in the panthers game a few years ago.

You leave out the fact that Burfict was the best Bengal player on the field in that playoff game.  The hit on Brown was not a cheap shot unless you're a Steeler fan.  It was a bang bang play, trying to prevent a receiver from making a catch.  Adam Jones was the much bigger culprit.  His foul did not come when making a football play and it was the one that made the winning FG makeable.

As to ankle twisting et al.  It's football, Nancy.  I played RB in HS.  (four TD's in one game).  I got poked in the eye, popped in the nuts.  One guy tried to give me a wedgie under the pile.  Another guy tries to pull two fo my fingers right off my hand.  And that was just HS.  It happens.  Burfict just isn't good enough at not getting caught.   None of that shit bothers me in the least.  It goes on every play, every game.  Guys constantly hit each other after the whistle.  The POS officiating crew, the embarrassingly bad zebras, are just selective as to who gets flagged and when.

Good for you thinking high road, all judgmental on your high horse and all.

Burfict gives way more than he takes away.  You can't get nearly enough value in a trade for him and if you cut him, he's signed elsewhere in about ten seconds.  And then his dubious suspensions would mysteriously go away.

He has issues, for sure, and he probably is his own worst enemy, but no one on this team can give you what he does.   I believe it makes a lot of sense to have a better LB crew around him so, if he can't play, you aren't sending bums out there.  But the idea of getting rid of him is just plain stoopid.

And, btw, pretty sure he was not tackling with his head when he got his last concussion, a fact you conveniently left out of your rant.