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
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(The opportunity for completions has) definitely been there. But for some reason we've kind of stayed away from it a little bit.
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He's definitely not afraid to stick it in there. He's going to throw the ball in traffic. He has a lot of confidence in his arm. But if I was that big, I'd have that much confidence too. We're all anxious to see how it's going to work out. The world's definitely going to get to see what he's got.
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.
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We're not leading the league in scoring for no reason. Two weeks ago when we played the Rams (and won 44-24) we could've scored 65 points. We know we're leaving plays on the field even though we're putting up big numbers. And we know we can get a lot better.
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I don't think he should have gone that far. I figured I'd get fined, but I didn't think I'd miss the whole first quarter.
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We all know that we've been one play away from winning the football game. I think we know that there's one or two plays that kind of comes back and bites us a little bit. If we don't have a lull on those one or two plays, then we win the football game.
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We all knew we pretty much shot ourselves in the foot in that second quarter. Everyone knew we just had to cut out the mistakes.
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I didn't really understand those things until I was older. But just to come from something like that, with a person like that, willing to sacrifice everything for the people she loved. That's why I am the way I am.
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I was surprised to see that. I didn't expect him to follow me to both sides of the field. I said, 'Oh man, I've got my work cut out for me today.' He's one of the best there is. We had a good battle. I won some, and he won some.
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I make those plays every day in practice. I just didn't make it.
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She drove a public school bus for 13, 14 years, every day, then would come home and cook, and she wouldn't eat because there wasn't enough food for all of us,
anxious everybody
Right now (Eli's) anxious about getting started, too. I think everybody is.
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Last year taught me to just take my job more seriously, ... I have to remember that I'm doing what I love to do and I've got the best job in the world. I've got to treat it that way.
believe challenge everybody people ready start week
I think it will be a challenge for us because people are going to start gunning for us now. We've just got to be ready each week to make everybody believe in us.