HERE'S A LOOK AT WHAT'S BEEN SAID:
"I don't think nobody shut me down; [Ty Law and Otis Smith]
are just two average corners. When you got two good safeties, your
corners can gamble a lot more. They were kind of bracketing me. Otis would
come up and jam me at the line and jump outside, and he'd let me go inside
knowing that he had help over the top. They were giving me everything inside
and taking everything from me deep and outside.
"I wouldn't say they shut me down. They got like two or three pass-interference
calls when they played me man to man. They got out of that real quick and
they went to bracketing me. They were forcing me [inside] and I'm running
straight on to the safety. I can't do nothing but run curls and in routes.
They were taking away everything outside."
WR Plaxico Burress, August 24, 2002 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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"Me and Ty Law, we still have some unfinished business. I worked
all off-season looking forward to this game. "
WR Hines Ward, August 27, 2002 Pittsburgh Post Gazzette
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"I am in better shape than [Belichick] is. He is a good football
coach, but if it did come down to a one on one match up I will take him
on it."
Bill Cowher September 3, 2002