Plaxico Burress Lobbying For A Gig With The New York Jets

Added on Jun 14, 2011 by Jack Thurman in

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Plaxico Burress has only recently emerged to the right side of the ‘Gray Bar Motel’ and he’s thinking about a return to the NFL. While saying he’s open to all possibilities he’s been lobbying hard to join the crosstown rival of his former team–the New York Jets. At the same time Plax doesn’t seem anxious to play for his old coach, Tom Coughlin.

Burress has a new found interest in gun safety and he talked about his situation when speaking on the subject to the National Urban League:

“My situation in New York, me and my coach had an ambivalent relationship to say the least,. Some things that I didn’t agree with, with the way he went about things. And the only way to show my way was to just rebel. Is that who I am? No.”

“That was one of the biggest problems when I left Pittsburgh when I came here. I had a relationship with Bill Cowher inside of football and outside of football. He always had an open-door policy to where you could come talk to him or tell him what was on your mind. When that was taken away from me, I kind of felt it was like: I’m the coach, you are the player. It doesn’t matter what you have to say. You just do what I tell you to do.”

“This is not college. This is professional sports. If you can’t sit down and go talk to a man that you are busting your tail for, not even have the respect for anything that you have to say, like I said, the only thing I knew then was to rebel.”

He went on to talk about his time with the Giants:

“I just believe that sometimes I took things for granted. Now I am in a better place mentally and just happy. I don’t really think I was in a happy place then. I was just in a place to where I didn’t like to go to work during the week but I just love to play on Sundays. And a lot of that had to do with the relationship that (Coughlin and I) had. I just want to go somewhere that is refreshing and be happy to be there and it’s my second coming.”

Burress will be a free agent once the lockout ends. At his best, he’s one of the best in the league at his position but hasn’t played football since 2008.