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Hey everyone, I live in Chicago and was listening to the “Mike Ditka Show” on ESPN-Chicago radio an hour or so ago, and the show hosts (Tom Waddle and Mark Silverman) and Mike Ditka began talking about the NFC East.
Ditka was not at all sold on the Giants, saying “They didn’t just lose 3 in a row; they got BEAT 3 in a row!” and Ditka strongly emphasized the word “beat”.
Then he talked about Cowboys-Eagles and said both teams are playing very good football right now, but that in Sunday’s game he has to give the Edge to the Eagles because they’re at home. But he said talked about how the emergence of Austin was “for-real” and good for Dallas. I thought that was a pretty fair opinion all the way around.
The show’s hosts also asked Ditka what he thought about Roy Williams, to which he began to say “Williams…well,….”. Then he paused and said “I won’t say tit!”. The hosts pressed him and he again said “No, no, I won’t say it”. The hosts then pressed even more and said “come on, just say it”, to which Ditka replied “Williams can’t hold his jockstrap [meaning Austin’s]”.
He continued then by singing the praises of Miles Austin saying “the difference is that this kid Austin is just better player; he's an all-around football player; he can run better, run with it better, catches better, is a better blocker…the other one just can’t even hold his jockstrap!” Roy Williams to him was a clear afterthough. I was stunned how emphatically he dismissed him and went on and on about Austin.
Hey, I’m just passing what Ditka himself said, and I heard it with my own ears. You guys can each decide if his words mean anything to you or not. But the quotes I’ve written above, and how the conversation went down, are both true and as close to accurate as I heard them.
Make of it what you will…
Ditka was not at all sold on the Giants, saying “They didn’t just lose 3 in a row; they got BEAT 3 in a row!” and Ditka strongly emphasized the word “beat”.
Then he talked about Cowboys-Eagles and said both teams are playing very good football right now, but that in Sunday’s game he has to give the Edge to the Eagles because they’re at home. But he said talked about how the emergence of Austin was “for-real” and good for Dallas. I thought that was a pretty fair opinion all the way around.
The show’s hosts also asked Ditka what he thought about Roy Williams, to which he began to say “Williams…well,….”. Then he paused and said “I won’t say tit!”. The hosts pressed him and he again said “No, no, I won’t say it”. The hosts then pressed even more and said “come on, just say it”, to which Ditka replied “Williams can’t hold his jockstrap [meaning Austin’s]”.
He continued then by singing the praises of Miles Austin saying “the difference is that this kid Austin is just better player; he's an all-around football player; he can run better, run with it better, catches better, is a better blocker…the other one just can’t even hold his jockstrap!” Roy Williams to him was a clear afterthough. I was stunned how emphatically he dismissed him and went on and on about Austin.
Hey, I’m just passing what Ditka himself said, and I heard it with my own ears. You guys can each decide if his words mean anything to you or not. But the quotes I’ve written above, and how the conversation went down, are both true and as close to accurate as I heard them.
Make of it what you will…
