Plaxico Burress Rips Eli Manning, Tom Coughlin In Men's Journal Interview Over Lack Of Support

Although Plaxico Burress and the New York Giants tried to play nice when the wide reciever was released from prison this summer, it turns out there actually are some hard feelings between Burress and his former team.

In an interview with Men's Journal, Burress ripped his former coach, Tom Coughlin, and Giants quarterback Eli Manning over how he was treated after he accidentally shot himself in the leg in 2008.

"After my situation happened, I turned on the TV, and the first words out his mouth was ‘sad and disappointing.’ I’m like, forget support — how about some concern? I did just have a bullet in my leg," Burress said. "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."

Talking about Manning, the Jets receiver said that he was his biggest supporter until he didn't hear from him during the two years he spent in prison.

"I don’t want to say it was a slap in the face, but I thought our relationship was better than that," he said.

Mike Mazzeo of ESPNNew York pointed out that the remarks were made before he met with the Giants during the shortened offseason.

Back in August when Burress signed with the Jets, he told reporters that there were no hard feelings between him and the Giants.

Comments

[Meerkatx]

10:10 AM on 09/11/2011

Mr. Burress is sounding like someone who didn't learn his lesson. A person who doesn't understand that his coach was more worried about innocent bystanders then the idiot who brought a loaded gun into the club. Maybe Eli doesn't feel it's okay to support a former team mate who committed a crime and could have hurt or killed someone. Burress needs to grow up and stop blaming others for what he thinks is lack of support and start accepting responsibility for his actions.

[mps124888]

08:21 AM on 09/11/2011

Damn safties, he never should have put one in the chamber, the NFL should have a special
branch to teach firearm safty, and a support group to visit anyone who is currently in jail

[KingGlorious]

11:42 AM on 09/10/2011

This is a specious issue....

[floodmfx]

10:53 AM on 09/10/2011

Eli should have visited him

[Buff Daddy 1017]

01:16 PM on 09/11/2011

I agree.

[MrTown3]

08:26 AM on 09/10/2011

That's cool...he got an opportunity to see what people are really about...chalk it up as a lesson and keeping doing you

[Dick Stone]

01:37 AM on 09/10/2011

Well Plaxico, some of us were looking forward to a return of a more responsible Plaxico, but obviously that is not to be, he has obviously watched our President who always blames someone else for his failures and Plaxico has decided to follow the President's blame game. Dumb enough to shoot your own self, gee Plaxico you could have been President, but that felony conviction will now prevent that.

[Kriol Kidd]

02:32 PM on 09/10/2011

Tea Partiers are pathetic. What does Plaxico Burress and football have to do with the President.

[lib2dbone]

07:05 PM on 09/10/2011

You strained mightily to make a connection but all you got was a pulled muscle. If you have any muscle.

[frank day]

05:48 PM on 09/09/2011

Shut up and play ball

[jayquintana]

05:30 PM on 09/09/2011

Speaking of concern, did Plaxico apologize to the people in the club he could've easily killed?

[Banghouse]

07:55 AM on 09/11/2011

Did gun toting tea-baggers apologize for the same when they brought their firearms to presidential rallies?

[OutAtFirst]

05:17 PM on 09/09/2011

What were they supposed to do, shoot themselves in the leg in a show of solidarity? When he shot himself and ended up in jail he hurt the team. Hurt the team and don't be expecting a lot of support.

[Omeezee]

04:19 PM on 09/09/2011

Again huffpost with the sensationalism. He didn't "rip" anyone. He said it like it was. He didn't curse, or call them names, just reported on what happened and their relationship. Sad that you guys try and get more readers by doing this kind of lame stunts. You're already the #1 blog. What more do you want?

[Iain Banks]

06:59 PM on 09/09/2011

With the recent Vick and Burress articles, I think huffpo is trying to start a race war.

[canpete]

03:48 PM on 09/09/2011

perhaps eli didn't want to chum around with a convicted felon......

[dteg]

03:24 PM on 09/09/2011

Now you know. They are your coworkers not necessarily friends.

[Bombadillo22]

03:08 PM on 09/09/2011

"sad and disappointing.’ I’m like, forget support — how about some concern? I did just have a bullet in my leg," Burress said. "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 bullet in Plaxico's leg was nobody's dumb fault but his own, deserving little sympathy. The whole event was just 'sad' not tragic and unconscionable as it would have been if his juvenile, gun-carrying in a bar led to the accidental death of someone else.

A grown man with a such a juvenile mentality trying to raise kids is a sad thing too, for our society. Reading his response to a stern, mature coach, one can foresee Burress's kids lacking good sense--perhaps being be taught that carrying unregistered, loaded weapons into nightclubs was hunky-dory.

Coughlin was spot on, it seems, and Plaxico too immature at the time to see things that way for himself.

[Banghouse]

08:02 AM on 09/11/2011

So I guess it would have been different if the gun was registered. The only thing Plaxico needs to learn is that he is just a super paid worker, all the fake smiles and back patting means nothing.

[hazbro24]

02:54 PM on 09/09/2011

So you didn't want to be treated like a kid but you wanted more support? Pick one Plax.