Shut Up, Strahan

Since he's not able to play right now with a foot injury, it seems that Giants defensive end Michael Strahan has decided to use that pent up aggression to try to intimidate women.

Strahan went on New York radio station WFAN and complained about about his teammate, WR Plaxico Burress, saying he has a tendency to be a quitter. Strahan went on to say,

“It’s a shame, because Plaxico is a great player and he’s a good guy to be around, but, at the same time, you’re judged by your actions out there on the field. And you can’t give up, you can’t quit, because you’re not quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on us, you’re quitting on everybody. He’s too great of a player to have people look at him and think: ‘Oh, he’s a quitter. He doesn’t finish. He doesn’t try hard.’ He’s too good of a player for that, because we all see what he does, what he can do.”

It's on tape, everybody heard it.

On Wednesday, ESPN's Kelly Naqi approached Burress about the comments, which he had yet to hear. Upon being told what Strahan said, Burress admitted that the comments stung a bit:

“That is tough to hear someone say that about you. You know me, I don’t get into the aspect of criticizing teammates. I have always stayed in my place. I have never called out anybody. I don’t call out names. I don’t get into that. If that is the way he feels, then I want to talk to him personally.”

Strahan finds out about Burress' comments soon after and went into the locker room. But instead of explaining his comments, and maybe trying to diffuse the situation, Strahan lashed out at Naqi, accusing her of trying to divide the team.

You know, cuz that's what reporters try to do. Ruin teams.

Naqi asked him the question about his comments, and Strahan started yelling at her, telling her to move up where he could see her. (Video here)

“Look a man in the eye before you try to kill him or make up something. Look me in the eyes. We’re 6-5; we’ve lost three games in a row. What do you want us to do? Put our heads down and go into a corner? We don’t do that. We’re men. We get back, we practice hard, we prepare for plays to win. We don’t prepare to come in to have someone who wants to take a comment and try to divide teammates in a way that it just disrupts this team, because we don’t have that division here. So if you want to come here with the negative, you’re coming to the wrong guy, because I’m not a negative guy. I don’t kill my teammates. I’m a man, and I talk to my teammates.”

This is the latest fiasco for a Giants team that's been openly criticizing its coach Tom Coughlin since last year's playoff loss to Carolina. They face the Dallas Cowboys this weekend, the team they trail by a game in the NFC East.

If New York loses this one, things are bound to get even more interesting.