Plaxico Burress
29 January 2008
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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