Plaxico Burress

Plaxico Burress, who you may recall, caught the game winning touchdown in the superbowl this year to help the New York Giants be victorious over the New England Patriots. As you also may recall, he has been battling an ankle injury for quite some time.  In the post season he was also struggling with a sore knee.

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This, spearheaded by a stepped-up passing game by the Giants and an Eli Manning to Plaxico Burress, 81-yard touchdown pass, late in the third quarter that made the game interesting (27-20, at that point, if memory serves). But the Patriots did (in this game re-creation) what the Patriots do on the actual playing field. They didn't over-play their hand. They did just what they needed to do to win and if the score got run up a bit, it's largely because the defensive efforts to stop them got  frustrated by idiosyncratic and unpredictable play-calling. Just when you think you know what they're going to do, they tend to do something else.

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