Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post reports that Giants receiver Plaxico Burress played not only with a torn ligament in his ankle but also with a sprained MCL, suffered in a hotel-room shower mishap on Monday.

“Until this morning, I honestly didn’t think I would be able to go, and it broke my heart,” Burress said after the game.

So Burress played almost the entire year with the ankle problem, and then found a way to gut it out with a knee injury of previously unknown origin.  He didn’t contribute much throughout the game, and that might have contributed to the fateful decision of the Pats to use Ellis Hobbs in single coverage against him in the red zone.