BENGALS WLB VONTAZE BURFICT VS. EAGLES RB DARREN SPROLES:
Pretty straight forward for Sunday’s game (1 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Channel 19) at Paul Brown Stadium. The Bengals’ best defensive player vs. the Eagles’ best offensive player.
There is always so much buzz and clicks and posts about Burfict that you can forget he’s a heck of a football player and as well as Public Enemy No. 1. The focus is on the baggage and, sometimes, the flight gets lost.
Don’t look now but his linebackers coach Jim Haslett, a Pro Bowl linebacker himself, says not only have the stat keepers ripped him off, so will the voters if they don’t send him to his second Pro Bowl after this season even though he missed the first three games.