Tight end John Gilmore couldn’t resist egging on fellow tight end Desmond Clark. “I’m not even going to go Sunday, you going?” Gilmore asked Clark on Thursday in front of a crowd of reporters.
“Nope, I’m thinking about staying home,” Clark answered. “Why even show up? He already shut me down.”
Rookie Greg Olsen followed, “We don’t even have any pass plays to the tight end this week. Dez hit the nail on the head.”
The new celebrities of the Bears offense were responding playfully to Vikings safety Darren Sharper’s comments Wednesday when Sharper claimed he should be “fired” if a tight end ever caught a pass on him.
“He has been in the league 10 years, I’ll go out on a limb and say a tight end has caught a ball on him one time,” Olsen said. “I’m not worried about what he thinks, to be honest.”
“That’s just arrogance, simply arrogance,” Clark said of Sharper, shaking his head. “I had some pretty good days against Minnesota and [Sharper]. I hope they don’t game plan against [the tight end] again so I can go out and have another big day.”
