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
achieve averaged catch games last less opportunity people per receiver yards
Some people say I may have underachieved when I was in Pittsburgh, ... But you have to have the opportunity to achieve anything, period, much less overachieve. And I think I was a big-play receiver in Pittsburgh. I only averaged 20 yards per catch (actually 19.8 in 11 games last year).
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.
adjusted changes couple game gets playoff settle sure
This is the playoffs, the game changes a little bit, things get a little more difficult. He hasn't experienced a playoff game yet, but I'm sure when he gets in there for the first couple of series, he'll settle down and he'll get adjusted just fine.
ball few foot game games ourselves shot
Some games are just like that. Not every game are you going to come out and sling the ball around. We shot ourselves in the foot a few times.
bit defense execute field football games win
You can't win football games like that. We've got to come out and execute and keep our defense off the field a little bit more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
order
We've got to get things in order off the field, too.
balls four suit three
Three or four balls just doesn't suit me very well.
known matter special
I can't even get a read on him or how he's feeling. As long as I've known him this year, he's been the same, no matter what. What's so special about this game?
figured gone miss
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.