Though Eli Manning agrees on the Giants’ decision to put Plaxico Burress on the shelf for the remainder of the season, Harry Carson thinks Burress should get another chance to step onto the field in a Giants uniform in the future.
“I would like to see him come back and play, and I’d like to see the Giant organization hang with him. I think they should,” the Hall of Famer linebacker said at the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year banquet last night in Manhattan. “Whether they will or not, that’s another story. But I would hope that they will hang with him through this whole process and not jettison him.”
Carson said the team did what it had to do in suspending Burress for the rest of the season, but he also felt the troubled wide receiver wasn’t the only player to make a mistake in the history of the Giants.
“Listen, we all have done really dumb stuff,” Carson said. “There are dumb things that I have done, there are dumb things that Lawrence Taylor has done, but we had the opportunity to come back and play.
“What Plaxico did didn’t hurt anybody except Plaxico.”
Manning agreed with the decision to sit ban his biggest target.
“It’s not my call . . . obviously management thought that was the right thing to do, and you gotta support anything they decide right now,” the quarterback said.
“Some younger guys, Sinorice Moss and maybe [Mario] Manningham, are gonna have to step up and get some more playing time. It’s just a combination of the team stepping up and guys going out there and continuing to play good football and find ways to win games.”
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