http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...bears-headlines</p> <font color="#0000ff">Lovie Smith prefers to handle Rex Grossman with kid gloves. Former Bears coach Mike Ditka and his quarterbacks might as well have used boxing gloves. Which way works better? Time will tell with Grossman. "It depends on the personality of the coach," Ditka said the other day. "My personality was such that I didn't think the quarterback position was any different than an offensive lineman or a defensive lineman. But in the case of the quarterback, everything that happens on offense goes through him. So if it doesn't happen right through him, it's not going to happen." Former Bears quarterback Mike Tomczak once told me he sought counsel from a sports psychologist to help him deal with Ditka's ire. Jim McMahon and Ditka appeared to have a love-hate relationship that mellowed as McMahon led the Bears to a Super Bowl title. Ditka once grabbed and chewed out new Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh in full view of television cameras after a crucial interception.</font> </p> Aside from McMahon, I'm not aware of any QBs that performed better in Chicago than they did elsewhere. Maybe Tomczak, but he was generally awful everywhere.</p>
