Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Antonio Burress is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers eighth overall in the 2000 NFL Draft and also played for the New York Giants and the New York Jets. He caught the game-winning catch of Super Bowl XLII as the Giants beat the New England Patriots. He played college football at Michigan State...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth12 August 1977
CityNorfolk, VA
faith pressure putting stop
Just let Eli be Eli and he's going to be OK, ... Stop putting so much pressure on him and just let E be E. I've got a lot of faith in him. He's the quarterback of this team.
ball basically thrown worried
When I was in Pittsbugh, I was basically worried about how many times the ball would be thrown my way,
none regular season sit time worry
The regular season is here now so you don't have time to worry about none of that anyway, ... You've just got to go out and you've got to make it right. You can't sit back and say 'Oh, we've got time.'
kindness respond wish
We've got kind of one of those offenses where we respond when we need to. I just wish we could've responded a little earlier.
best plays practice
We established that in practice during the week. He'll look for me to make plays and I'll do my best for him.
anyone blame face position slap
We can't blame anyone but ourselves. We didn't play as well as we wanted to. We know we were sputtering offensively and defensively. It's kind of a slap in the face and now we're in the position we're in.
balls four suit three
Three or four balls just doesn't suit me very well.
based black diamond drives drove fancy liked perception player seen team wears
I was never really liked in that city. I mean, I don't think I was liked as a person. I was kind of seen as a black kid, young African-American, cornrows, drives fancy cars, wears diamond earrings, things like that. They just kind of based their perception off of what I drove and what I did and things like that. All those things were never a part of any other player on that team but me.
build few needed plays
We needed things like that to build our confidence. Make a few plays like that, we'll do something in the playoffs.
early entire games hard routes work
We work hard on our routes in practice. We come out early before games and go through our entire route tree.
continues defense tough
If our defense continues to do what they've been doing, we're tough to beat.
based black diamond drives drove fancy liked perception player seen team wears
I mean, I don't think I was liked as a person. I was kind of seen as a black kid, young African-American, cornrows, drives fancy cars, wears diamond earrings, things like that. They just kind of based their perception off of what I drove and what I did and things like that. All those things were never a part of any other player on that team but me.
coaches definitely dreamed family growing kid lost monday night players playing scattered team
As a kid growing up, you always dreamed of playing on 'Monday Night Football,' ... This is a different situation. You've got players and coaches on their team that lost homes, have scattered family members. They definitely have a lot to come out and play for, and doing it on a Monday night stage, because of the situation, they're definitely going to be emotional.
ability
I want to go out and show my ability and what I can do.