Posted by Josh KatzowitzIn his first interview since his release from prison earlier this week, WR Plaxico Burress pleaded for potential employers not to judge him by his past and to just give him a chance to make a good impression.
"I know what I'm capable of. All I need to say to teams is 'don't judge my future by my past,'" he told the Wall Street Journal. "Just let me come out and play football … Just give me a playbook and I’ll learn it.”
Burress, because of the lockout, can’t be in contact with any teams, though Eagles QB Michael Vick said this week that Philadelphia could use a receiver like him. As Ryan Wilson pointed out recently, many other teams also could have an interest in seeing what Burress has left in his soon-to-be-34-year-old body.
Burress, during the interview, made some interesting observations, namely what it was like to watch NFL games with fellow inmates and what having former Giants teammates visit him meant to him.
"There is nothing pleasant about prison," he said. "There's so much I can tell you and (at the same time) no one thing I can put my finger on. There's an emotional toll and there were definitely some guys I was around who'd done things that made me say, ‘Really, seriously, I am here?’”
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