Plaxico Burress Slams Giants

Added on Sep 09, 2011 by Scott in

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Plaxico Burress wasted little time unloading on his former employers after being released from prison in June. In a Men’s Journal interview to be published next week, Burress fired several salvos aimed squarely at head coach Tom Coughlin, quarterback Eli Manning and the Giants organization as a whole. Based on his comments, it’s fairly easy to see why he’s wearing Jets green instead of Big Blue.

Burress is still hurt by Coughlin’s unsympathetic reaction to him shooting himself in the middle of a crowded NYC nightclub.

“I’m like, forget support — how about some concern? I did just have a bullet in my leg. And then I sat in his office, and [Coughlin] pushed back his chair and goes, ‘I’m glad you didn’t kill anybody!’ Man, we’re paid too much to be treated like kids. He doesn’t realize that we’re grown men and actually have kids of our own.”

Well, Plax, grown men with kids probably shouldn’t be carrying loaded guns into clubs. He wasn’t finished with his denouncement of Coughlin.

“You look around the league, the Raheem Morrises and Rex Ryans — when their player makes a mistake, they take ‘em to the side and say, ‘We’ll get ‘em next time.’ But Coughlin’s on the sideline going crazy, man. I can’t remember one time when he tried to talk a player through not having a day he was having.”

Hmm. Maybe Coughlin is of the belief that grown men don’t need to be coddled like babies. Just a thought. Tell us about Eli, Plax.

“I was always his biggest supporter, even days he wasn’t on, ’cause I could sense he didn’t have thick skin,” Burress said. “Then I went away, and I thought he would come see me, but nothing, not a letter, in two years. I don’t want to say it was a slap in the face, but I thought our relationship was better than that.”

C’mon. Eli is way too pretty to set foot in jail. Tell us about mayor Bloomberg and prison conditions, Plax.

“The way Bloomberg treated me was totally wrong, stacked those charges so high I had to go to jail,” Burress said.

In jail, “they treated me like a f—— axe murderer. 23-hour lockdown, noncontact visiting, and only a Bible to read,” Burress said. “Nobody deserves to live like that, man.”

That does sound kinda harsh. I hope the screws didn’t spit in his food because that would really suck.

Burress goes on to take shots at fans who cheered his incarceration and the Giants franchise for lying about his ankle injury during the 2007 Super Bowl season. He also claims to have a learned a lesson from his time inside and vows he’s a changed man. Bitter, but changed.

Burress begins his second chance on Sunday night when the Jets host the Cowboys.

Source: ESPN.com