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• Burress charged, but story's tangled
Just four days ago, the biggest question surrounding Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was whether his strained hamstring would allow him to play last Sunday.

• Giants bracing for mob scene
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- As an injured player, Plaxico Burress is required by the team to go to Giants Stadium today for treatment -- something his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said last night he would do.

• Giants look distraction-proof
LANDOVER, Md. -- Barry Cofield simply wanted to rest in his downtown Washington hotel room, so he shut off the ringer on his phone.

• Burress to surrender today
While his teammates were in Landover, Md., adding another win to the Giants' impressive 11-1 season, wide receiver Plaxico Burress was holed up in his Totowa, N.J., mansion, the eye of a weekend-long storm of uncertainty and unresolved circumstances.

• Jacobs understands Burress mindset
LANDOVER, Md. -- Brandon Jacobs isn't excusing Plaxico Burress for carrying a loaded gun into a nightclub. Nor will he condone Burress' having a weapon in Manhattan without a New York gun license -- if that's indeed the case.

• Giants must just say no to Plaxico
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Throughout his many indiscretions during his turbulent 2008 season, Plaxico Burress had been the Giants' problem, and nothing more.

• Plax is better, but not enough
The last time the Giants played the Redskins, Plaxico Burress had far and away his best game of the season, with 133 receiving yards in the Giants' Week 1 win. But the wide receiver won't have the chance for a repeat performance tomorrow in Washington. He has already been ruled out for the game.

• Kiwanuka has score to settle
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- As defensive ends Justin Tuck and Mathias Kiwanuka were getting dressed at their adjoining lockers yesterday, their conversation turned to their matchups tomorrow at Washington.

• Giants know Redskins offense runs with Portis
The last time the Giants faced Clinton Portis, they relied on the Great Wall of China.

• Hixon proving his versatility
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Wide receiver Domenik Hixon had eight passes thrown his way in Sunday's win over the Cardinals. Only two of them fell incomplete -- a corner route in the Arizona end zone that was knocked away by CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and a hook that Rodgers-Cromartie also defensed. The other six were completions for a total of 57 yards.

• Manning airs it out vs. Cards
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- If quarterback Eli Manning were one to pay attention to talk last week that the Giants offense was too reliant on its run game and that he hadn't thrown for 200 yards in a month-and-a-half, one play in the Giants' 37-29 win over Arizona Sunday would have been an especially satisfying silencer.