This is the post game press conference after the Saints got their "butts" handed to them by the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta. From the mood of Mike Ditka, it sounded like he was ready to quit. This was very bizarre.
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@killyourtelevision9997 жыл бұрын
"God puts people in places for reasons, and He probably put me [in New Orleans] to be humbled, and I deserve it." -- Mike Ditka
@JimmyJam1125 Жыл бұрын
As good as a quote as you ll ever see.
@dancollins82968 ай бұрын
Amazing words
@sqd37l8 ай бұрын
"and those that are proud will be humbled and those that are humble will be exalted"
@dane21dc7 ай бұрын
Typical Seppo BS
@vokaber1DMLUVBTKMVK7 ай бұрын
Its beautiful how self aware he is! I wish more people were this self aware!
@ghostjoker3981 Жыл бұрын
Can’t describe Ditka’s honesty. Most authentic coach of all time🖤💙
@PaulGreen115 жыл бұрын
Football broke this man's heart.
@edmundp1232 жыл бұрын
Football is his heart. Sure he was a little down (losing sucks).
@mattverville92277 ай бұрын
so do the lions but not anymore wooooooo
@DarKKnightt077 жыл бұрын
He is one of my all time favorite coaches.
@paleo704 Жыл бұрын
He was a better player than coach
@robertjensen10482 жыл бұрын
Wow. I'd never seen this before today. That was epic, I've seen a thousand post-game interviews with NFL coaches but nothing that even resembled this before.
@tiatrips14 жыл бұрын
This was hard to watch, but this is why Ditka is respected in the NFL. He never passed blame, admitted what he did was wrong, and did all he could for success. This is a true coach.
@internetcrip63917 жыл бұрын
Victor Vogel he said the offense had no talent... passed a little blame there.. I know he sais it was his fault for picking them, but he went in on the offense pretty hard here...
@beverlysherrod53204 жыл бұрын
Ight
@chadwickwhite61074 жыл бұрын
It wasn't hard for ME to watch. I MISS the days when coaches spoke from the heart instead of their wallet.
@johnselwitz53622 жыл бұрын
@@chadwickwhite6107 I think he meant that it’s hard to watch in the sense that this is basically Mike Ditka’s lowest point ever in his coaching career. He was such a great coach, you think of the dizzying heights he helped lead the Bears to in 1985, as well as the continued winning in the years following, and he’s been reduced to this. The Saints were 2-10 at this point, the fans were pissed, the Ricky Williams trade was turning into a total disaster, and you can just see and hear how defeated Ditka is in this interview.
@martyjohnston3689 Жыл бұрын
Also might not want to say you’re done in the middle of the season
@DLBlckwl6 жыл бұрын
"If I was fired then I'd quit right now". That had me rolling. 0:48
@ExodusPessoa5 жыл бұрын
lol lol lol lol lol lol
@adaonetube5 жыл бұрын
Of course he wants to be fired. If he quits he doesn't get paid.
@brandonsmith77877 ай бұрын
The Saints fan was really thinking that Mike Ditka was gonna turn this Saints team into the 1985 Bears 😂😂😂😂
@victormalgieri77336 ай бұрын
That was the best line of all time !
@danieldougan2692 жыл бұрын
Good coaches like Mora and Ditka were emotionally broken down in New Orleans in the '90s. That franchise was so devoid of talent that Vince Lombardi couldn't have won there.
@kennbo12 жыл бұрын
They did it to themselves. Both Mora and Ditka. Mora let Morten Anderson walk, he let 3 of the 4 dome patrol members go walk and later admitted his mistakes. Ditka was horrible at player evaluation and had at one point the worse QB room in the league. Players he personally requested. It is common knowledge they did it to themselves. That is why the owner fired Ditka and the entire coaching staff and the GM and started from scratch.
@johncarolina4950 Жыл бұрын
@@kennbo1 The Ricky Williams trade was the worst trade in NFL history
@christopherfava2529 Жыл бұрын
But yet won a Superbowl with Sean Peyton and Drew Brees,gotta have the right QB and right head coach
@mikewolverton7904 Жыл бұрын
@@johncarolina4950 that may be true but look at what Washington did with all those draft picks they received from the Saints.
@swampd19668 ай бұрын
He thought he had a bigger, stronger, faster Walter Payton.
@SJM67916 жыл бұрын
This is why I respect the Hell out of Ditka as a Man. We wouldn’t need so many scum bag lawyers if people would just accept responsibility for their mistakes and failures like he did in this interview.
@xpat738 ай бұрын
LOL. Do you think insurance companies and corporate bad actors "accept responsibility" and just write checks to people? They only do that because of lawyers.
@timothyplatt33007 ай бұрын
ehhh attorneys are pretty important... I'm taking a landlord to court bc they've been purposely negligent (not a mistake or failure), and sent a debt to collections (a debt that isn't mine, picture proof that they provided lol)... but it's done on purpose bc it's affordable housing, so they think we can't afford an attorney.
@Ma007rk7 жыл бұрын
That's one of the things that I do like about Mike Ditka. He's overpoweringly blunt and to the point.
@NapBoney10 жыл бұрын
We need more coaches like him, who are honest and don't answer all the stupid questions the press asks
@lockshockandbarrel47585 жыл бұрын
When you get dominated in Madden Ultimate team.
@damonwillis36724 жыл бұрын
😂
@nivyatom98404 жыл бұрын
The expressions on the face of that suited guy on right side of Mike are priceless.
@666sk8erguy4 жыл бұрын
Damn the Saints broke 2 legendary coaches in Mora and Ditka
@lickitup3235 жыл бұрын
As a Vikings fan I really liked Mike...he was good for the game. Show me a coach right now that gets the respect in today's game, these players make too much money to listen to coaches....my opinion
@prestonsmith7004 Жыл бұрын
Andy Reid, Pete Carroll and Mike Tomlin. Have a lot of players respect I think and their fanbase
@Butterandbacon2 жыл бұрын
How can you not feel bad for Mike after watching this?
@ManhattanProject98 жыл бұрын
This press conference took place on November 23, 1997, at the Georgia Dome. The Saints lost 20-3 and committed 5 turnovers.
@bigrocca96064 жыл бұрын
Philip Tucker Aaron Brooks is the second best quarterback in Saints history. Show some respect. He also wasn’t the quarterback yet, take fan
@brasspick3 жыл бұрын
@Philip Tucker I think Haslett and then OC Mike McCarthy brought Brooks in.
@CynicalCharlatan888 ай бұрын
1999**
@naysayer12388 ай бұрын
?? December 5, 1999, and they lost 35-12 and committed just 2 turnovers.
@dba4292 Жыл бұрын
A fine, humble, and a honest man. I like him.
@TalkMyShiit6 ай бұрын
Now what about you? 😂
@fredfender82727 жыл бұрын
"They broke me down." LOL!
@Ditka-89 Жыл бұрын
0:56 oh my god that stare was brutal 😂. God Ditka you were such a legend, in good times AND bad times
@ContextReallyMatters4 жыл бұрын
As a Saints fan, the Ditka era was tough but I was with Dem Boys every single week.
@jimiprice61822 жыл бұрын
He called it like it is, much respect coach.
@nicktucker34376 жыл бұрын
much respect for Ditka!
@carlosfryer38874 жыл бұрын
If your passionate about football or not. This is still tough to watch.
@kenwalker27038 жыл бұрын
This was after the 3-20 loss to the Falcons in 1997
@billymatthews73468 ай бұрын
Was at the Big Dome a season later when the two clubs met in Atlanta, remember walking down to our seats and Coach was standing right at mid field, with the back street boys singing in the background. Sitting right in front and watch J. Anderson score and dance the bird bird, 31-23 Falcons 10 18 98
@captainhonan Жыл бұрын
Don’t matter what he still one of the best, if not the best coaches in the history of the sport
@marcelcovaci99222 жыл бұрын
This is the reason why the NFL teams will never have this kind of coach anymore. The owners don’t like someone who speaks their mind about the team, the players etc. And the fans loved this type of coach because they were speaking their mind and people can relate to that. Now you just have coaches that will give you a word salad after the game “ we have to watch the tape” , the overly used word “ process”!!!! Everything is a process, a protocol whatever.
@willielittle9301 Жыл бұрын
Talent, heart, hard-work, execution, repetition, communication, chemistry, and unity...A team must have these attributes to be successful...
@scotter420wigb10 жыл бұрын
one of the best players and coaches to ever play da game, da coach..ditka we luv ya
@raycab16 жыл бұрын
Too bad he's as dumb as a box of rocks.
@teddyclark9738Ай бұрын
This guy never mixed words and this is just my kind of dude they don't build them like this very much anymore, you can tell that he was so mad he's the guy that probably just pulled the locker off of the wall and through it before cameras started rolling, Mike was so passionate and the guy what's the dude that has so much love for the game for me this is an anger this is passion and this is what needs to be taught today sometimes, if every kid had a guy like this in their life as a coach or as a father figure this world would be a better place. Cuz you can tell that he cares while also being upset about the Loss.
@rydawg76297 ай бұрын
Any coach that spoke like this today, would have to attend "sensitivity training."
@dpoet1914 жыл бұрын
lol @ the reporter asking questions after Ditka left
@killyourtelevision9997 жыл бұрын
Reporters are heartless vultures
@jimroscovius2 жыл бұрын
Reporters are so stupid. They ask the same questions over and over, and ask stupid questions like, "How did you feel about that game-winning touchdown you made." Just once, I'd like to hear a player say, "I felt horrible. I wish I wouldn't have scored."
@luv2eatpuss792 жыл бұрын
very underrated post game meltdown
@adolfhitler66999 жыл бұрын
pro football died the day Ditka left the Bears
@Kevin01SH2 жыл бұрын
Hard to imagine any Falcons team beating someone so badly they wanted to give up.
@Bob31415 Жыл бұрын
IKR. It's like getting beat up by Quakers.
@Mike1614b8 ай бұрын
the reporters caught Mike in a moment, like sharks
@TalkMyShiit6 ай бұрын
Blood was in the water …
@marksienicki1253 Жыл бұрын
He owns it.
@random-nz7dy4 жыл бұрын
I miss the days where coaches in every sport were blunt, honest, and didn't BS. It feels like every coach now in every press conference is just issuing political "this team has to just keep believing" statements. When's the last time in recent memory a coach has talked the way guys like Ditka in Jim Mora used to? Been awhile.
@danb68386 ай бұрын
I got to meet him for business reasons in Chicago after he was out of football.... He was just like he is in this press conference. He told us...I like to tell the truth, and sometimes that gets me in trouble because people don't always want the truth. He said he got that from his dad! I'll tell you, after spending some time with him, he is one of the greatest men I've ever met in person!
@XalenMaru10 жыл бұрын
0:43 Are you thinking about uh.... YES! Epic.
@johntroy69697 жыл бұрын
Which interview is the one where he answers every question with with a "yes" or "no" before he gets pissed. lmao
@daniellinehan63 Жыл бұрын
"Next !!"
@StayingBack71 Жыл бұрын
He said back in 1996....."Its in the water in New Orleans" .... Although his heart will always be in Chicago, And Coach Landry in Dallas
@moryvitalle12667 жыл бұрын
true football coach
@Jasonfisherman812 жыл бұрын
Wow he definitely kept it real unlike alotta others these days, so nice to hear him say acknowledge God even. Now days media trys to take God country and American moral fiber out of the picture. Point is Iron Mike is from the older hard days there's love but you gotta work for it.
@Idiodyssey87 Жыл бұрын
"Sure, I'll trade our whole draft for a running back! It's foolproof!"
@diocletian6078 ай бұрын
Nobody knew he was going to turn into a pot smoking buddhist. Did you see that coming? Did anybody?? Lol
@BilltheFifth4 жыл бұрын
That's frank talk right there.
@antimatterXXXIII14 жыл бұрын
@mosher111 This was probably the last of six losses to the Falcons under Ditka (0-6, 1997-99). The Ditka Saints never beat the Falcons. The last one was at Atlanta in 1999 (Falcons' SB year) - they didn't score until the 4th qtr and lost 35-12.
@BallinNQnz6 жыл бұрын
Falcons Super Bowl season was 1998.
@paleo704 Жыл бұрын
Love the way he looks at the clown reporter who asks if he’s “talked to management about that” 😂😂
@darkcrimson2314 жыл бұрын
@cmurphy1219 I agree...guess the guy thought he could turn them around. Something my dad always said; "You can't turn crap into anything but crap."
@thetruth9814 жыл бұрын
"Are they a better football team than us? No." lol
@bayou43214 жыл бұрын
@antimatterXXXIII I suspect you are right that this was after that 35-12 Falcons victory in 1999. However, the Falcons super bowl appearance was for the 98 season. The 99 Falcons did poorly, winning about only 4 or 5 games.
@tonybells1318 ай бұрын
One of my all time favorite football players and man's man.
@dave929 Жыл бұрын
Cut and dry. Coaches are on the hook if players don’t perform. That’s where it gets iffy. A player drops a pass, fire the coach. Player catches the ball, give them all the glory and high salary.
@emack43719 жыл бұрын
I have nothing else to say.....this is silly. ....lol....those are the same exact words I wanted to say to my boss with his shady self.......you tell them clowns Mike....this is silly
@justinp5661 Жыл бұрын
Mike Ditka takes responsibility. Gotta love it
@randyhoward27393 жыл бұрын
This was back in 1999 after the Falcons beat the Saints 35-12 in Atlanta
@spoilers718 жыл бұрын
Well god-damn... that was painful to watch. Coach, cut yourself some slack and forgiveness, there. I'm almost done throwing up. We want Tight End Iron Mike Ditka, who played for Dallas & the Bears. You coached a shitty team through a demoralizing loss, now get over it! We want number 89, and we wanna see him running safeties & DBs over. You're a badass, but you seem to have forgotten that fact in the preceeding interview. I sent a tweet to Otis, Samurai Mike, Perry, Frasier, Plank, (but I could not locate Richard Dent nor Wilbur Marshall). I checked the toaster for Vestee Jackson... sure enough, he was in there, having gotten burnt... Joking aside, you are the greatest football coach that the game will ever know. We just need you to not forget that, and I would like to see you enjoy life as you well deserve. You are a hero and a role model and don't you ever forget that.
@1940restorod2 жыл бұрын
Always respected Ditka. I met him at a friends house BEFORE he became Bears head coach. My friend said “hey you want to meet my uncle? I said why? He said he’s gonna be the Nears new head coach.” Met him briefly and his wife. The guy had a had like a catchers mitt.
@troyyork15548 жыл бұрын
dude cut off his medication in this interview.
@A-shot-in-the-dark2 жыл бұрын
IRON MIKE win or loose he told it like it is very blunt and honest with himself didnt really have no one eles to blame took a gamble and it didnt pay off ehhh well you win some you loose some this saints team deffinatley was not the 85 BEARS MIKE will always forever be a LEGEND!!
@machomanforeverworldchampion2 жыл бұрын
Me every Tuesday about my fantasy teams. Yes, I do press conferences about them. ; )
@Bob31415 Жыл бұрын
I'm just glad nobody asked him about the playoffs.
@GeorgeVreelandHill8 ай бұрын
This man was real football. He took responsibility. And let's not forget that he won a Super Bowl because he had the guts to do it his way. Give me a real coach like Mike Ditka.
@GZA0367 жыл бұрын
*Tough in the Middle, Leadership, Bulldozer, Durability, Strength*
@cmurphy121914 жыл бұрын
He should have never agreed to coach for such an embarrassment of an organization to begin with.
@jeffthompson3035 жыл бұрын
If he would've just went in and played himself they would've won 42 to nothing.
@effend4464 жыл бұрын
No. More like 72-zip......and that's after a couple of heart attacks.
@daniellinehan63 Жыл бұрын
How that '65 Bears team not win with Ditka, Sayers, Butkus,Buffone & O'Bradivich is beyond.me.
@andysmith61568 ай бұрын
Mike Ditka gutted the Saints with his Ricky WIlliams bullshit. I was a 10 year season ticket holder and Mora to me was the greatest thing that ever happened to the Saints then Benson hired Ditka. I wrote him a typed up nasty letter and told him I knew giving up my season tickets wouldn't mean shit to him but I hope Ditka brings him to his knees which he did. I lived and died by every play before that. We sat through some dismal seasons. When Mora brought us to the Playoffs we thought we'd gone to heaven. When the Saints made the Super Bowl I was excited but I didn't watch. I still have trouble watching them. I miss the DOME PATROL LINEBACKERS, Dalton Hilliard, damn, I'm drawing a blank, # 84 .......Morten Anderson, and punter.......damn its late, my memory, Hokie Gajan, I saw so many incredible games that Joe Montana played with Jerry Rice, Deion w Atlanta, Bo Jacksons great run, a great Rams game when Dickerson fumbled right after we told some loud clowns from California that he was getting ready to fumble. We laughed em out the stadium.
@camrontoney5772 жыл бұрын
Now we have Kliff "Give them credit" Kingsbury
@60BloodyChamp607 ай бұрын
He was a good coach who didn’t get the credit he deserved because of how it ended in Chicago, which wasn’t all that bad. It’s not like they had a total disaster of a year. They just underachieved. They had a winning season.
@josephrinella98747 ай бұрын
This is a coach , says what he feels
@garylivingston90528 ай бұрын
"not much talent on the offense, none" you got to love that. Bottom line is it's up to the players to perform, they are professionals, being paid $$$$$, go out and figure out a way to get it done.
@jamesr25475 ай бұрын
"if I was fired I would quit right now."
@deedeejax008 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ! What was the score in this game?
@nachogonzaga6034 жыл бұрын
20-3 Atlanta.
@teddyclark9738Ай бұрын
And yes I know he was probably mad at himself here but, this is what turns it around sometimes and this is what kids need to learn nowadays too is sometimes losing is the best thing that can happen to you because you can actually turn it all around and make yourself better through the loss instead of whining and complaining about what did or didn't happen or how it happened or why it happened, that's why things are so bad nowadays because kids don't know how to lose there's always trophies or there's always a reward but there's never a reason to come back and try harder and do better, when grades in life are going to the a right away when you're in school as a child did you get stickers and rewards for halfway doing things then you're never going to know how to lose in then when later.
@franktrovato23118 ай бұрын
At least he's truthful and not a bullshitter like some coaches today are. This man is 100% professional. Took everything on his shoulders without blaming the team
@markgallagher39626 ай бұрын
He didn't blame the team he just called everyone talentless 😂😂
@mottthehoople6847 ай бұрын
Mike Ditka grew up in a time when the only thing that was graded on a curve was a road not the School tests
@user-Vegas16 ай бұрын
Can you imagine Kelce, bumping into Ditka and yelling at him on the sidelines during a game? NO!!
@enlightenedwarrior71195 жыл бұрын
Can't win with Billy Joe turnover
@apathy52187 ай бұрын
Time to make these with Dennis Allen pressers.
@brasspick4 жыл бұрын
Zaven Yaralian, the DC, was actually a good coach. So unfair for him to share the blame when it was Abramowicz's offense that played pitifully.
@aledaandytaylor26132 жыл бұрын
My grandfather is a lot like ditka his personality is very similar
@rjackson25696 ай бұрын
This is how I felt after a 30-year marriage and my wife said to me " I want to leave to find myself.".
@jimjones98368 ай бұрын
That was tough to watch
@sharkheadism5 жыл бұрын
What was the final score of this game?
@nachogonzaga6034 жыл бұрын
20-3 Atlanta.
@naysayer12388 ай бұрын
@@nachogonzaga603 No, 35-12 Atlanta.
@joemartinez3312 жыл бұрын
Ditka was overrated. He wouldn’t have a Super Bowl ring as a head coach if it wasn’t for Buddy Ryan’s defense.
@lickitup84616 ай бұрын
Football was different back then, coaches held players accountable and told it exactly how it was, today's football is soft as hell and the players are all about showboating. They run 20 yards down field after making a tackle but still gave up the first down, running backs and receivers have to make a spectacle of themselves after makinf a first down. Football has really gone downhill over the years.... what a shame!!!
@thecentralscrutinizer3048 ай бұрын
He was awesome.
@joeylawn361112 ай бұрын
Thumbnail - "if looks could kill"
@ronschaffer59598 ай бұрын
Dude has epic hair.
@enlightenedwarrior71194 жыл бұрын
Billy Joe tolliver Billy Joe hobert and Danny weurful what QB rotation lol
@randyhoward27398 ай бұрын
Mike Ditka never beat Dan Reeves and the Atlanta Falcons when he was Head Coaching the Saints
@user-Vegas16 ай бұрын
I was thinking this is when he was with the Bears nothing in the tag let me to believe it was when he was with New Orleans
@anthonya.24302 жыл бұрын
Accountability Remember when that meant something
@sparrowbe4k8022 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite men. YOU didn't fail them. THEY failed you. First you have to deal with McMahon. and then then this. Edit2 : why was McMahon STILL chewing at you after 40 years ??? Why is he doing that???
@cald14218 ай бұрын
Imagine being a player, your coach tells you you’re training hard and he believes in you…but you’re just mediocre and then your own coach torches you as “no talent” on national Tv
@viperrecords32885 ай бұрын
This is what accountability looks like.
@13PanteraX2 ай бұрын
When you lose to the falcons, you feel this way. 😃
@gordoncosta4 жыл бұрын
Sorry Mike ,but when you think you are one RB away from the super bowl, YOU ARE NOT VERY GOOD.
@williamemerson32492 жыл бұрын
I mean things were different in the 90's tbf
@jamesr25475 ай бұрын
"There's no talent on the offense and that's my fault. I chose them."
@mikefingers8909 Жыл бұрын
he coached for 2 more years after this ?! he's begging to be fired. how could the owners keep him around for even one more game ?!