CardFan88 and MadCard Disease---Thanks for pointing out my error in not stating that the rating for Dansby was pre-season 2013. How you want to look at the numbers is up for grabs---but they are a start. Here's the other part of the post that I failed to include, Dansby's actual stats by comparison for 2013:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/player/_/stat/defense/sort/totalTackles/year/2013/seasontype/2
Dansby's preseason projection was for #17. In the ESPN tally, he's at #20 for defensive players. Puzzling number is the number of assists he is given credit for---only 8???
Check out V. Burficit (spelling) for the top tackler in the league---and EVERYONE passed on this guy based on his combine results.
No worries, it can happen to any of us. At first I thought that site was nuts, then I realized the timing of it.
VB started out as a stud at ASU, and I really hoped we'd pick him up when he graduated. Then his craziness took over, the penalties all the time, the drugs, the laziness, the he punched one of his younger and 75 or so lb lighter teammates, and the throwing under the bus of his coaches while being unaccountable. He literally lost games and ruined seasons for ASU all by himself. He was a cancer and an infectious negative influence on his team. He was better as a freshman then he was as a junior. He went from budding star to uninspired back pedaling LB more akin to holding onto a guy and falling down and trying to take the ball carrier with him.
Basically after allowing him to get away with it the whole time Erickson suspended him from the bowl game and rather then take it like a man, he pouted, quit the team, and decided to turn pro.
Then at the combine he was overweight, and threw his coaches under the bus while having what most said were horrible interviews. He also tested positive for pot.
I didn't want him on our team even as an UDFA. Most guys like these never turn it around, and after seeing how his constant penalties snowball into team dysfunction, I didn't want that infecting the Cardinals.
I hoped he would turn it around, but it was one of those things where almost no one that messed up ever does. I'm glad he did. I'm glad he proved me wrong so far. The first year...year and 1/2 at ASU he was amazing. I hope he continues to do well, but he still is prone to a few bonehead penalties from time to time. Though I did feel he got a raw deal on one late last year. (I think it was in the playoffs).
He is the vast exception. Many people around him felt he was a good guy, but for some reason all the above happened and kept happening. I don't know what an accurate estimation is, but I'd guess 99/100 or 999/1000 don't turn it around like he did. He was that out of it. Bengals took the risk, and it was a risk beyond his impact to the cap, which as an UDFA was basically nothing. But potential to team chemistry or in-fighting, that can wreck teams and start something the eventually ends head coaching stints. They reaped the rewards, but next time someone tries such a thing with someone with a similar track record, it probably won't.
