Breaking: Burfict Suspended (Again)

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(03-16-2018, 06:10 PM)muskiesfan Wrote: I get that. However, he's been fined and suspended multiple times for these actions and others. He should knock it off. He can still play physically and still be the enforcer without getting involved in these other things. He just won't. I love that he hates Pittsburgh. I believe he probably hates them as much as we fans do. Just keep it clean. Don't instigate and don't take the bait.

I will concede that I myself am not wired to play LB in the NFL, so what I'm about to write doesn't come from first hand knowledge. But, just watching the game as a fan, it just seems that the guy doesn't know how/when to pick his moments. Sure, he reads and diagnoses the game very fast by NFL LB standards, but the sense of most players on when to press an opponent's buttons and more importantly HOW to do so just seems very lacking with him. I'm sure all the "great ones" played with a near-reckless abandon and knew how to go close to the line without crossing it. And if they ever crossed it, it was few and far between enough that it didn't cause them to have a dirty reputation. VB just doesn't seem to understand how to not get calls going against you by continuing to worsen your reputation. I'm not talking about intra play penalties like some hits that seem egregious due to a slight mistiming etc. It's ridiculous after the whistle boneheaded stuff that all the world can see that essentially paints a picture in the refs' and NFL league officers' minds that are easily avoidable but yet he continues to repeat them. Even last year, when he's still stepping on opponents, aiming kicks from the ground etc., that for someone who claims to be targeted by the NFL, he keeps unnecessarily keeping the bulls eye on himself.

He makes game changing positive plays and if he was smarter would know that he should act in a way that he would only be known for those plays, but unfortunately the discernment doesn't seem to be there and therefore he is now known for being a dirty player. Add in the fact that the suspensions are hurting the team, I wonder if the guy even has done any real soul searching after the umpteenth suspension that he has received. It's easy to chalk it up as the "NFL is out to get me", but you must at least ask yourself "did I do everything in my power to not give the NFL any chances to get me?", before you start pointing blame outward.