Why is plaxico burress disliked

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This is part of what O'Connor wrote this morning :. The New York Giants won't rue the day they let Burress become a New York Jet if the year-old receiver pulls the hamstring an aging receiver coming off a month stay in prison might be expected to pull. But if Burress spends the season as the kind of target and touchdown maker he was in the first half of a preseason victory over the wretched Cincinnati Bengals , the Giants won't bother fretting over the losses of Kevin Boss and Steve Smith.

Their fans will be too busy raging about the lousy three million bucks the Giants wouldn't guarantee Burress. You know what I think? I think O'Connor is doing a great job fanning the flames and creating controversy, just like a good New York columnist should.

I also think he is all wet. There will also be fans who rant and rave about Burress, whining that the Giants should have brought him back after his two-year prison sentence. Needless to say, New York Giants fans should hold a grudge against the man who derailed their season by tucking a Glock into the waistband of his sweatpants, then accidentally pulling the trigger in a crowded nightclub.

The only others who have any real cause to be upset are Burress and his family. Most don't remember Holmes' transgressions.

Everyone remembers Vick's, but few still hold them against him. Burress' career will soon be fished out, and rescued into that same ship—hopefully Rex Ryan 's redemption boat has room for one more.

Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox! Your sports. Join Newsletter. In other words, I'm not sure how much Jay Cutler and Mike Vick might actually have to talk about if you took football out of the mix. But because they're both quarterbacks, we've got ourselves a conversation. And in the world of Forbes, that conversation is bad news.

There's no data to indicate that anyone was clamoring for a bad-guy update, but because we have the results, let's roll with them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the top three spots or bottom three, depending on your perspective are held by players whose off-the-field behavior caused the public to turn on them. Vick, according to the poll, is a player whom fully 60 percent of the respondents say they "dislike," "dislike somewhat" or "dislike a lot.

It probably doesn't help Vick's case that the poll was conducted among the general U. Can Vick ever fully rehab his image? It's an unknown. It's what Vick does from here on out, now that he's getting paid, that will drive future opinion.

After Vick, it's Plaxico Burress , imprisoned on gun-possession charges, then Ben Roethlisberger , a player who became infamous nationally for an investigation into his role in a sexual assault claim.

He was not charged. So in the case of our first two signal-callers, it stands to reason that a general cross-section of Americans will know them mostly for the negative headlines they've made outside of football. As for the other quarterbacks on the list, it starts getting a little inside the Beltway. These are sports judgments being drawn. And in each case -- Carson Palmer , Vince Young , Cutler -- the position they play just hideously exaggerates their flaws, both real and perceived.

Call it an occupational hazard. They've all got the chinks in the armor. Palmer held out from his team in Cincinnati. Young ran afoul of Jeff Fisher in Tennessee, to the point that Fisher was willing to lose his job rather than be strong-armed into starting an underperformer.

Cutler clashed with folks in Denver, developed a reputation as a me-firster, then was semi-accused of quitting on his Chicago Bears teammates with a knee injury in the NFC title game last season.

Now, Cutler is the same guy leading a resurgent Bears team, and he was the quarterback of record Monday night as Chicago scored a huge victory over Vick's Eagles in Philadelphia. If he wins in the playoffs with the Bears this season, will Cutler come off the Forbes list? My guess is he will. He's not a Vick or Roethlisberger, after all; he's just a guy with a sports knock on him.

And winning can rub that away when you're the quarterback.