Sexy Rexy, Mental Midget?

Get ready for a little person rally on the streets of San Diego.

With the Chicago Bears taking a beating from the San Diego Chargers this past weekend, the insults are continuing to bubble up. This time, the Chicago Tribune reports that linebacker Matt Wilhelm quoted coach Ron Rivera in calling Bears quarterback Rex Grossman a "mental midget."

The puffy-chested Chargers postgame remarks simply warned the Bears that future opponents will want to get inside their heads because, word around the league is, there's plenty of room.

This all coming down the pike after the Bears were upset regarding their defense being displayed as the weaker half against LaDanian Tomlinson in a Nike commercial. While failing to prove the media wrong on said advertisement, their offense took a beating as well with linebacker Shaun Phillips delivering a sack that Grossman deemed the "hardest hit he's ever taken."

But did anyone hit Matt Wilhelm in the head?

Thinking here is that Wilhelm is in fact the "mental midget." Who takes something the coach tells the team in private to the media - ESPECIALLY when it refers to how dumb an opposing player may possibly be - and think that it is perfecty acceptable? Has anyone even cared about what Matt Wilhelm has had to say since Ohio State? Even then he probably wasn't providing in-depth thoughts.

For the record, Rivera considered Wilhelm's revelation regrettable and said in a phone interview that he addressed the matter with the linebacker.

No kidding. You mean that Rivera doesn't like being in that light? The San Diego coaching staff may want to hire some PR staff to follow their players around when confronted with media opportunities. We all know that Grossman isn't exactly thought of as the Albert Einstein of football, but Wilhelm definitely blew by him on the Low-IQ freeway.

Midget Remark... [Chicago Tribune]

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