Off season pick ups and then some....

[Beemnseven]

Burress had the ball in his hands in the endzone yesterday and dropped it. The play was crucial and would have brought the Steelers to within a touchdown late in the AFC championship game. For a guy who gets so much talk around the NFL as a premier wideout, he must make those types of plays.

You can't judge an athlete on just one play, but you cannot deny that this guy is too often an underachiever.

[sportscurmudgeon]

Last year, Plaxico Burress was not happy with the Steelers because he wanted a contract extension and they would not give him one. So the team had a "minicamp/voluntary session" in mid-May and Burress skipped it. He said the reason he skipped it was because he was spending Mothers' Day with his mother. He might have gotten away with that until he added that he was devoted to family first and since the Steelers had not made him feel like part of their family, he didn't think he should spend that weekend with the Steelers.

I don't think that is what Joe Gibbs calls a "true Redskin".

[offiss]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Burress had the ball in his hands in the endzone yesterday and dropped it. The play was crucial and would have brought the Steelers to within a touchdown late in the AFC championship game. For a guy who gets so much talk around the NFL as a premier wideout, he must make those types of plays.

You can't judge an athlete on just one play, but you cannot deny that this guy is too often an underachiever.

I agree, but I do think that play is indicative of how he play's, Burress is nothing special and I wouldn't waste big money on him.