I like this guy more and more every day. The Monday night broadcast of the game was a joke and there are only a handful of guys on ESPN that are worth listening to these days. I swear – if I have to hear Sean Salisbury talk one more time about “when i played”… seriously – you played for what… 3 quarters? Get lost and stop flip flopping on teams just because they won last week. And don’t get me started about the Coke Head.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2639376

Tiki Barber blasted critics of his retirement decision on his Tuesday night Sirius Satellite Radio show, “The Barber Shop.”

“…I will call them idiots, because they have neither spoken to me, nor any one of my teammates or any of my coaches,” Barber said. “Yet all they do is criticize me for being a distraction with this retirement thing.”

Barber was specifically upset at three of his critics: the New York Daily News’ Gary Myers, who wrote that Barber had “created a season-long distraction” the Giants “don’t need”; and ESPN’s Tom Jackson, who said the decision “has distracted the team from the task at hand,” and Michael Irvin.

“To me, in my head, that’s quitting,” Irvin said before the Giants’ 36-22 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night. “That’s not retiring.”

Barber singled the three out during his radio show Tuesday night.

“And that includes Gary Myers,” he said. “That includes Tom Jackson on ESPN. That includes the ultimate character guy, facetiously speaking of course, Michael Irvin. Please get a clue on how to be a journalist.
“Don’t make blanket assumptions about it [retirement]. And obviously, as was evidenced [Monday] night, I am a huge distraction to the New York Giants,” he said.

The remarks come a week after it was first learned Barber was considering retiring after this season.