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stillers4me
06-01-2011, 05:29 AM
Over the weekend Ron Cook of the Post-Gazette made his argument for why the Steelers should at least look into (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11149/1149995-87.stm) bringing back wide receiver Plaxico Burress. In short: He would make the 2011 Steelers a stronger team, give them a big target with speed to get deep, he was never a bad teammate in his first stint with the club and he made a stupid mistake and paid the price for it.
My reasons for not wanting him back have little to do with the type of teammate he was (I don’t know if he was a good one or a bad one) or because he stuffed loaded guns down his sweatpants in New York clubs, and more to do with the following…

1) Do the Steelers really need a 34-year-old wide receiver that hasn’t played a down of football in two years? ............

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