The Big Kid, who has started and played very effectively at LT the past 2 games in place of injured regular David Diehl, has now missed his 3rd straight day of practice and is listed as 'Questionable" for Sunday's game.
Some interesting points related to this development:
-The Gnats are growing very thin on the Oline, which has Gnat fans bemoaning the unfairness of their injury plague and moving injuries to the top of the 'Excuse List', if needed.
- As possible indications that Andrews' emotional status may also be tanking again, it's reported that the usually talkative Big Kid has not been made available to the press and the 'tweets' in his Twitter account have dropped the past few days from an average of 50 a day to zero!
- The always genial (not) Colonel Tom reportedly got rather testy during a routine presser on Thursday when asked if Andrews current back problem comes as a surprise given his history with the Eagles.
- Linemates Rich Seubert and Kereem McKenzie continue talk optimistically about Andrews' starting Sunday night based on how badly he wanted to play against the Eagles. Do they have objective inside information or are the being unrealistically hopeful based on both the dire needs on the Oline and their own willingness to play thru pain in a big game. (We might also speculate on how much woofing the talkitive Big BId has been doing in anticipation of this game.)
- In today's presser, Coughlin claimed Andrews was 'a little better' and had come out at the beginning of practice and was 'just standing around until they sent him back inside'. (whatever the F that means.)
- (Subsequently in the presser)Q: Would you feel comfortable playing Shawn Andrews after he's missed a full week of practice?
Coughlin: I don't know that I will be. The medical people are going to have to make a very serious call on that one, too. If the decision is that he can play, we'll have to decide then if we do want to have him available or do we want to put him right on the field. All of those things will probably be in the next few hours.
- Roughly half of the questions in the presser were Andrews related...sound familiar?
Assuming the Gnats medical staff OK Andrews to play, I like BP's predicted scenario: * Andrews - feeling the pressure to not let his teammates down will dress for the game and come out to play. About 5 plays in he will leave the game and he will not return.
Some interesting points related to this development:
-The Gnats are growing very thin on the Oline, which has Gnat fans bemoaning the unfairness of their injury plague and moving injuries to the top of the 'Excuse List', if needed.
- As possible indications that Andrews' emotional status may also be tanking again, it's reported that the usually talkative Big Kid has not been made available to the press and the 'tweets' in his Twitter account have dropped the past few days from an average of 50 a day to zero!
- The always genial (not) Colonel Tom reportedly got rather testy during a routine presser on Thursday when asked if Andrews current back problem comes as a surprise given his history with the Eagles.
- Linemates Rich Seubert and Kereem McKenzie continue talk optimistically about Andrews' starting Sunday night based on how badly he wanted to play against the Eagles. Do they have objective inside information or are the being unrealistically hopeful based on both the dire needs on the Oline and their own willingness to play thru pain in a big game. (We might also speculate on how much woofing the talkitive Big BId has been doing in anticipation of this game.)
- In today's presser, Coughlin claimed Andrews was 'a little better' and had come out at the beginning of practice and was 'just standing around until they sent him back inside'. (whatever the F that means.)
- (Subsequently in the presser)Q: Would you feel comfortable playing Shawn Andrews after he's missed a full week of practice?
Coughlin: I don't know that I will be. The medical people are going to have to make a very serious call on that one, too. If the decision is that he can play, we'll have to decide then if we do want to have him available or do we want to put him right on the field. All of those things will probably be in the next few hours.
- Roughly half of the questions in the presser were Andrews related...sound familiar?
Assuming the Gnats medical staff OK Andrews to play, I like BP's predicted scenario: * Andrews - feeling the pressure to not let his teammates down will dress for the game and come out to play. About 5 plays in he will leave the game and he will not return.
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