[CBFF] Trashasaurus Rex? Sharper says Grossman talked smack

[Victor Waldron (CBFF)]

I guess Sharper needs to raise this as an issue since there's not going 
to be much to talk about the game itself.

:)

V

Jerry Madsen wrote:
> Olin is going to sit on his head this weekend.
>
> Jerry
>
> On 11/30/06, Phil DeNomme <pdenomme at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Shaper is a freaking baby.
>>
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>> Subject: [CBFF] Trashasaurus Rex? Sharper says Grossman talked smack
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>> Updated: Nov. 30, 2006, 9:51 AM ET
>> Sharper claims Grossman woofing in Bears win
>> Assocaited Press
>>
>> LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Minnesota safety Darren Sharper remembers it
>> clearly, even though it's been more than two months since Chicago
>> quarterback Rex Grossman threw a late TD pass to beat the Vikings at
>> the Metrodome.
>>
>> What happened next seems un-Rex like. The Bears' young quarterback
>> started to talk trash to the Vikings. Apparently big-time.
>>
>> "In 10 years in the league I haven't had a quarterback do that any
>> time to me, so we definitely remember that and the guys in the locker
>> room remember that," Sharper said Wednesday as the teams got ready for
>> a rematch Sunday at Soldier Field.
>>
>> "Will that decide the game on Sunday? I don't think so, but it gives
>> us a little extra motivation," Sharper added.
>>
>> Earlier in the Sept. 24 game, Grossman was intercepted by Antoine
>> Winfield, who went seven yards for a TD that put Minnesota ahead. But
>> Grossman brought the Bears back, hitting a 24-yard pass to Rashied
>> Davis with less than two minutes left for a 19-16 win.
>>
>> Then he celebrated, spicing it with some salty comments to the Vikings.
>>
>> "I probably said some things that I regret, but the whole game their
>> DBs were talking to me, just really getting under my skin a little bit
>> and probably more than I should have allowed it to," Grossman recalled
>> Wednesday.
>>
>> "But they were just yapping the whole game. I threw the interception
>> for the touchdown and Dwight Smith came up and smacked me on my helmet
>> and was in my face. ... When we finally got the touchdown pass I
>> probably went overboard a little bit with some of my emotions, some of
>> the things I said."
>>
>> Admitting he was angry at the time, Grossman wouldn't be specific
>> Wednesday about what he said but added that his comments were directed
>> at Smith and not the three-time Pro Bowler Sharper.
>>
>> "I probably just should have gone to the sidelines and started
>> celebrating," he said. "It's a situation that if I'm ever in again,
>> I'll just stay calm and just go off to the sidelines and never say a
>> word. He [Sharper] is blowing it up a little bit. What can you say
>> really?"
>>
>> Sharper didn't reveal the exact wording of Grossman's comments,
>> either, but said the Chicago quarterback crossed the line.
>>
>> "He was kind of beating his chest, talking trash, this and that,"
>> Sharper said. "You guys are this!' Whatever, Whatever. Some curse
>> words, stuff like that. He might've been caught up in the moment, but
>> the thing about it is you always get another chance to see him and we
>> get that this Sunday."
>>
>> Bring it on, said Bears center Olin Kreutz, suggesting that the
>> Vikings are trying to get into Grossman's head.
>>
>> "Rex can talk whenever he wants. Anybody on the field can talk when
>> they want and that's where you handle it, on the field," Kreutz said.
>>
>> "That's the problem with the NFL. Everybody always issues threats
>> through the media. No one ever really does anything about it, so
>> that's something I'm kind of tired of. I've been here nine years and
>> everybody's always talking tough in the media, but there's never any
>> fights. If you're going to talk tough, I mean, go fight somebody."
>>
>> Grossman has enough problems already, coming off a three-interception,
>> one-fumble performance in a 17-13 loss to the Patriots that has some
>> questioning how far he can take the Bears in the playoffs. He's thrown
>> 11 interceptions in the last six games, but despite his uneven
>> performances, Chicago (9-2) can clinch the NFC North with a victory
>> Sunday.
>>
>> If the Bears are worried about Grossman, they're not saying. But coach
>> Lovie Smith offered this much: the team is not concerned about trash
>> talking -- real or imagined.
>>
>> "A lot of things go on during the game," Smith said. "If you are
>> describing Rex Grossman, 'trash talker' is probably not one of the
>> ways I would describe him. Are things said during the course of a
>> football game from both sides? Every game. This game will be won on
>> the field. That has no bearing really on the game."
>>
>> Notes
>> DB Ricky Manning has rejoined the Bears after sitting out a one-game
>> suspension handed out by the NFL. Manning pleaded no contest in
>> September to a felony assault charge stemming from an altercation with
>> a man at a Los Angeles restaurant in April.
>>
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