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
approach football happened orleans regular wish
For us, we've still got to play the New Orleans football team. There are a lot of things going on in their lives. We all wish it never would have happened to them, but at the same time, we've got to approach it like a regular football game.
definitely opportunity reason stayed
(The opportunity for completions has) definitely been there. But for some reason we've kind of stayed away from it a little bit.
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.
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.
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.
balls four suit three
Three or four balls just doesn't suit me very well.
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.
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.'
ball basically thrown worried
When I was in Pittsbugh, I was basically worried about how many times the ball would be thrown my way,
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.
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.
order
We've got to get things in order off the field, too.