Plaxico Burress rips 'fall guy' idea: 'I never tried to blame somebody for my choices'


On Sunday, a video went viral that showed Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter at the 2014 NFL rookie symposium in which Carter advises the players that if they're going to have a crew, they had better designate a "fall guy."
"All you guys aren’t going to do the right stuff," Carter said during the symposium. "So I got to teach to you how to get around all of this stuff, too. If you're going to have a crew, one of them fools got to know that he's going to jail. We'll get him out."
The NFL has since called Carter's advice "unfortunate and inappropriate" and Carter has expressed regret over it too, saying "seeing that video has made me realize how wrong I was."
One former NFL player who lived a potential "fall guy" scenario in Nov. 2008 and ended up serving 20 months in prison on weapons charges after literally shooting himself in the leg in a night club, former Giants Super Bowl champion wide receiver Plaxico Burress, condemned the fall guy notion in a series of Tweets Monday night:
Wow! I guess I didn't have a "fall guy". @NFL #rookiesymposium
— Plaxico Burress (@plaxicoburress) August 25, 2015
I've NEVER tried to blame somebody for my choices, decisions and the consequences I suffered. I looked in the ... http://t.co/llmOp2U3Sb
— Plaxico Burress (@plaxicoburress) August 25, 2015
Bottom line, you can't tell @nfl rookies nothing like that. We suppose to be helping them, not advising them to to have a Fall Guy. Unreal
— Plaxico Burress (@plaxicoburress) August 25, 2015
RT @plaxicoburress: RT @plaxicoburress: I glad my son wasn't sitting in that @nfl rookie symposium. ?
— Plaxico Burress (@plaxicoburress) August 25, 2015
Prior to the accidental shooting, Burress had frequently become tangled in legal matters. The Associated Press found that since joining the league in 2000, he had been sued at least nine times on allegations that he failed to pay a debt, damaged someone's car or didn't pay his taxes.
The 6-foot-5 Burress made an NFL comeback in 2011 with the Jets at age 34 and later returned to the Steelers but never regained his form.
As it appears he expected, some folks fired back at Burress (pun was not intended), who noted: