Burfict smackin' on the Bengals..

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(08-07-2019, 06:48 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: The post you quoted makes perfect sense.  If you don't think that character flaws like that carry over into a player's professional career, then you don't pay a lot of attention to things much.  There's a reason that college coaches would go to great lengths to cover up player's bad behavior, before the electronic information age took over.  There was also a reason that he was a UDFA..

He was a well known head case.  Zimmer did the best job of get the most out of him and keeping him mostly under control.  The biggest problem, obviously, was that he could not keep himself under control.   He's not so much a has been as a could have been.  He was his own worst enemy but he wasn't his only enemy.