My thoughts on preseason wk 2

We still have at least a couple of posters here who think the only thing keeping him from leading the Steelers to a championship is the team refusing to give him a three-year window as the starter.

 

Burress set his career highs in receptions and receiving yards as a Steeler in 2002.

 

I stand corrected. He still had 3 very good seasons with the Giants, two of those he had 1000+ yards receiving, and one just shy of 1000.

 

With Tommy Maddox, not Ben Roethlisberger or Eli Manning.

But... had Burress stayed with Steelers, he likely would have had some awesome years on a 2nd contract. Steelers brass had no interest in signing him, IIRC.

 

Agreed - had he stayed, it would have been interesting to see the duo of Ward/Burress, alongside Miller.

I feel like they ended up prioritizing Ward somewhere in all of that. Also, for some reason, I faintly remember Burress later admitting that the Steelers had offered him a comparable deal, but he ended up choosing the giants anyway.