He says they told him they did it because they wanted to protect his brother Shawn's injured back. Doesn't mention at all that maybe it had more than a little to do with the fact that he was coming off an ACL injury and would've gotten his butt handed to him if they had lined him up on the outside last season.
There was the they-were-mad-at-my-brother-and-took-it-out-on-me excuse, in which both Andrews and Moran claim Shawn's problems affected the way the media portrayed Stacy, and also potentially affected the way the Eagles dealt with him. In other words, the Eagles didn't bench me and make me take a pay cut and trade me because I couldn't block anybody. They did it because they were mad at my brother.
My favorite of all, though, might be the I'm-too-tall-to-play-guard excuse.
On Friday, the day before the Eagles shipped Andrews to Seattle for a seventh-round pick, Moran, in an interview with my esteemed colleague and Eagletarian co-author, Les Bowen, questioned whether there is another 6-7 guard in the entire league, or at least one that can walk and chew gum at the same time.
A couple of things. First, Andrews isn't really 6-7. Because I don't have a life, I have been collecting the vital statistics (height, weight, 40-yard dash time, et al) of draft prospects from the scouting combine and/or their pre-draft workouts for the better part of the last 15 years. When Stacy came out of Ole Miss in 2004, he was measured at 6-6 1/8. Unless he's had a growth spurt over the last 6 years, he's still 6-6 1/8.
Second, again, because I have no life, while you were attending barbecues, I went through the projected season-opening starting lineups of each and every NFL team over the weekend, and found that 22 of the 64 projected starting guards in the league are 6-5 or taller, including five who stand at least 6-6.
