Paul Guenther: Vontaze Burfict “way smarter” than he gets credit for

Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict will sit out the first three games of the 2016 season while serving a suspension for repeated violations of the league’s player safety rules, but that hasn’t soured the team on the linebacker. Despite the damage done by penalties for those violations, director of player personnel Duke Tobin said that the…