Report: Hasselbeck to replace Ditka on ESPN Sunday Countdown

[The_Joker13]

http://gnb.247sports.com/Bolt/Report-Hasselbeck-to-replace-Ditka-on-ESPN-Sunday-Countdown-44158592

Maybe Dikta should have kept his politics to himself?

 

[BondHawk]

Well, there is also the fact that he was never a good analyst.

 

[hawkeye54545]

When I first heard about this the OIT in me wondered if the fact Ditka is a vocal Republican turned off the liberal leaning ESPN brass.

 

[The_Joker13]

Well, there is also the fact that he was never a good analyst.

Are any of them "good"?

 

[ThorneStockton]

When I first heard about this the OIT in me wondered if the fact Ditka is a vocal Republican turned off the liberal leaning ESPN brass.

Conservatives and liberals watch sports, why even bring up politics when it could rub a portion of your viewers the wrong way? I'm guessing the ESPN brass, whichever way they lean, care more about maintaining viewership in the environment of cost cutting than they do about having analysts who share their won politics.

 

[BondHawk]

Are any of them "good"?

I mean, anyone can be picked apart for this or that, but I would throw out guys like Jaworski, Schlereth, and TJ as unquestionably decent. Then you have clowns like Deion and Michael Irvin at the other end of the spectrum. I just don't really remember anything insightful that Ditka ever added to a segment.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Ditka has commented before on politics. Nothing new here. He's getting a bit long in the tooth.

 

[The_Joker13]

I mean, anyone can be picked apart for this or that, but I would throw out guys like Jaworski, Schlereth, and TJ as unquestionably decent. Then you have clowns like Deion and Michael Irvin at the other end of the spectrum. I just don't really remember anything insightful that Ditka ever added to a segment.

I suppose it's subjective. Ditka always seemed like a decent analyst to me, not great but certainly not bad. Although I don't really watch ESPN for their pro football coverage either. More of a Fox guy.