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In an interview with Men’s Journal Jets wide receiver Plaxico Burress was open about what he thinks about Giants head coach Tom Coughlin and quarterback Eli Manning.
Burress was critical of how Coughlin treated him before and after he shot himself in the leg in a New York City night club.
“After my situation happened, I turned on the TV, and the first words out his mouth was ‘sad and disappointing.’ ” Burress told Men’s Journal. “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 he 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.”
The interview with the magazine was done before Burress signed with the Jets, but he did praise the coaching style of head coach Rex Ryan.
“He’s not a real positive coach,” Burress said in regards to 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.”
Burress also expressed how hurt he was that Manning never reached out to him while he served his 20 month prison sentence.
“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.”
The October issue of Men’s Journal will be released on September 16th.
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