Matt Leinart hasn’t exactly been the player in the NFL he was expected to be after his junior year, but who cares? Bottom line is, the guy’s pulling some major tail, is living like some sort of Hollywood Superstar, and has Nick Lachey as a best friend. The problem with all this? Well, to be completely honest, when you’re the quarterback, and you’re the franchise of a team, living that kind of life probably isn’t smart. And when I say “that kind of life,” I mean shoving a beer-bong down some girl’s throat who just got her driving permit.

Coach Whissenhunt, who got his eyes on some of the photos, isn’t very happy, but he hasn’t lost faith in his QB.

“Matt called me Monday morning and we spoke for a while,” Whisenhunt said in a statement. “I reiterated to him the type of behavior that we expect at all times from our players. He understands that as well as the level of scrutiny that he’s under because of who he is. It’s being handled internally.

“I was disappointed but at the same time have no doubts about his commitment to this football team or his ability to lead it.”

It’s good to know the coach still believes in him, given that he’s done nothing decent with a lot of talent since he entered the league. My hope is he stops feeding under-agers beer, and goes back to Paris Hilton. Somehow, that story had a bigger D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R written on it than this most recent one.