On Friday, 49ers tight end Vernon Davis called out first-round holdout wideout Michael Crabtree.
And so it’s fitting, we suppose, that 49ers running back Frank Gore on Saturday called out Vernon Davis.
“It’s his fourth year now. Now it’s time,” Gore said Saturday, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Davis, who has mixed it up a time or two during his four training camps, was involved in another fight Saturday, which prompted coach Mike Singletary to force the entire team to run sideline-to-sideline sprints.
“I wasn’t mad about having to run gassers,” Gore said. “I just feel it’s his fourth year now, and I told him it shouldn’t be him now. Everybody makes mistakes but it shouldn’t be him. OK, a rookie? I accept that.”
Gore said he has spoken to Davis about the situation.
“It’s time to be a man and try to do everything right,” Gore says he told Davis. “There are younger guys who probably look up to you on the team.”
But Davis was unfazed by criticism regarding his antics.
“A few guys were mad, but like I told them you can’t get mad because there will be a time you make the rest of us run,” Davis said. “I told them they should be happy that I made them run because it’s extra work for us and a chance for us to get better.”
Under that theory, Davis should be happy that Crabtree is holding out, because it’s extra work for the other pass-catchers. And a chance for them to get better.