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Peter King comes out shooting in his latest Monday Morning Quarterback that exclaims, GROW UP, TO.He covers a variety of subjects, but focuses in on Terrell Owens and NFL referees.

Peter comes out swinging against Terrell Owens:

The last straw, which lit my fuse like nothing I've heard in 25 years of covering sports, came last Thursday when Owens said on ESPN that he went off the previous day because Reid told him to shut up. Owens told his coach no one but the people who raised him could talk to him that way. And I thought: What society of enablers allowed this child -- and that is what he is, a child -- to think that in the NFL it is improper for a coach to tell a player to shut up?

Damn. Cold.

But Peter King is right on the money. Has Terrell Owens always been coddled when he played football? Of course not. He's just being an child as Peter says.

How do you think Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb feel right now? They both plead to the owners to sign Terrell Owens. Talk about screwing your friends.

Peter then goes off on the NFL referees:

In the final 10 minutes of the Browns-Giants preseason game on Saturday night, Terry McAulay's crew threw 17 penalty flags. Not all were accepted, but 17? Seventeen!

•A lost fumble.
•An interception.
•A muffed punt.
• Three points scored.
•Twelve incompletions and five completions.

A little ridiculous, in other words. The penalties were so absurd -- three separate ones on a single play, all against the Browns -- a Giants club official walked over to the officiating supervisor in the press box late in the game and told him what an embarrassment McAulay's crew was.

There are two pieces of good information in his Ten Things I Think section. The first deals with how Rex Grossman was very excited to play this season, but has now gone down due to a broken ankle.

The second was more love for Bill Belichick and how he's handling his quarterbacks this pre-season. Man, just get over it already and marry him, Peter.