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Originally Posted by StalkRavenMad
I have agreed with most of what you said, however Lamar has played 7 games without Andrews and won 6 of them. I think he's been pretty comfortable without Andrews.
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There's a bit of a "Ewing effect" with Andrews being out in the sense that the offense has gotten better without him because Lamar has had to be more creative and not just default to his safety blanket.
But at the same time, having that safety blanket would now be useful. I thought that last week during the first half against the Texans. When they were blitzing like crazy, it would have been helpful to have Andrews out there for Lamar to have a reliable option to connect with while the gameplan was being adjusted.
Gronk tweeted something today about how a two-TE set with Andrews and Likely would be deadly. And Monken did have great success with that at Georgia. But I'm not sure we'll get to see that this year if Andrews is gimpy. The bigger benefit to me is that if and when Spagnuolo dials up a tailor-made gameplan, Andrews is there as an outlet when all else fails.