Desmond Clark, a veteran tight end whose spent the last six seasons in Chicago turned 33 yesterday. He is entering his last season under contract.
Clark is fighting for a spot on this team and here’s what he had to say about that:
“I am going in with the mindset that I am trying to start this year and that is how I am going to approach it, but I am quite sure there is going to be a role for every tight end that is on this team.”
“You know what? The thing that I like about Mike Martz, he has shown in the past that it doesn’t matter – draft status, money or years in the league, all of that political stuff doesn’t matter. He is going to take the best guy and he is going to put him on the field and put guys in position to win. So, saying that I think when we go into training camp, we all are going to have to battle it out.
“Me, Greg, Kellen and plus Brandon, we all are going to battle it out for that position. Right now, I can’t tell you. Right now, we’re just running around in shorts and not even helmets. It will kind of start to sift itself out a little bit once we get into training camp. But me, I’m thinking that I am going to be right in the mix with everyone else.”
“I just have a belief in Martz that he’s creative enough to use four tight ends and who knows? It might only be three of us when it’s all said and done, heck, it might only be two of us. We don’t know that right now, but we’d like to think it will be four of us here because we know four of us, actually five of us with significant playing time in the NFL when you count Richard Angulo, so we have five tight ends that can get the job done.”
