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
few great plays throw
It was just a great throw by Eli. I'm here to make a few big plays for the team.
bites football lull plays winning
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.
plays
I make those plays every day in practice. I just didn't make it.
field leading league leaving played plays putting scoring though weeks won
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.
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.
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.
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.
easily everybody goes knows nobody offense stop team ugliest yards
Everybody knows we just put up probably the ugliest 400 yards that an offense can put up. I've never been on a team where we can just put up 300, 400 yards so easily and make it look so ugly. That just goes to show that if we can just go out and be flawless, nobody will be able to stop us.
humbling year
It was just a humbling year for me,
ability
I want to go out and show my ability and what I can do.
city people seemed thrown took
It kind of seemed like everything was thrown on my back off of one play that I didn't make, ... and I took that kind of personal, from the people in that city and some of the things that were said about me.
seemed
It seemed everything we did, they had an answer. It's kind of embarrassing to play like that.
anyone routes takes time timing
It takes time to get your timing on your routes and things like that, ... It's getting a little easier, but you don't want to get anyone hurt.
cut foot knew ourselves second shot
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.