 So last night I was playing my connected franchise mode in Madden and I was doing some passing plays and they were going to my tight end and that was Mark Andrews and I'm like man I'm gonna really miss that guy in real life and then this morning we got another reminder that Mark Andrews is out because from Aaron Wilson who used to cover the Ravens a long time ago if y'all remember but Aaron Wilson he said the Ravens are working out tight in Scotty Washington he's 6 foot 5, 247 pounds today per a league source and he's previously was with the Steelers, Patriots and Bengals and he went to Wake Forest so he got some AFC experience and some AFC North experience as well but of course they are looking for somebody to sort of feel that third tight end spot whether that's going to be him whether Eric Tomlinson has been a suggestion and vocal like he's been another suggestion and there are other guys out there so they have a lot of other options now one thing to think about when you think about that third tight end spot essentially it's not gonna be somebody that's gonna get a ton of playing time it's not gonna be somebody who's gonna be out there like that too much so I wouldn't expect too much from whoever they end up signing or whoever they end up putting in that third tight end spot whether they elevate somebody if they sign somebody whoever it is I wouldn't expect too much from them but anyway something that this also reminded me of was something that this why I love when y'all comment I love when y'all share your thoughts so much because it's something about Mark Andrews that the Ravens are gonna miss like the most when it comes to him being out obviously we know that Lamar Jackson and Mark Andrews the chemistry that they have is by far the best chemistry between anybody on but with Lamar and anybody with Lamar and any other tight end Lamar and any other receiver Lamar and any other running back Lamar Lamar has the most chemistry by far with Mark Andrews but something that a couple of people mentioned in the comment section which is such a great point and I'm like I made it made missing Mark Andrews hurt even more the off-script stuff that is really really where things are oh man like Ravens are really gonna have to make some big adjustments when it comes to that because as we know Lamar Jackson if some some breaks down with a play and they got to do something off-script that's when Mark Andrews and Lamar they were the best at that by far by far Lamar obviously we've seen it over the years he has so much trust for Mark Andrews they know each other if a play breaks down Mark Andrews like hold up okay let me go do this let me go improvise those are the plays that I think we really gonna miss the most from Mark Andrews hopefully and we're getting we got the guys to do it but they the chemistry gonna have to it's gonna have to be taken up a notch and with repetition it will be I mean they got no choice they literally got no choice but them off-script plays man those things they can be a thing of beauty because if you got a certain route that you got to run alright let me go run this round but sometimes stuff ain't gonna work sometimes stuff ain't gonna go so good sometimes stuff will break down fall apart it'll mess up so that's when you got to think on your feet and we know like we don't want Jackson either thing on his feet for sure man I don't know everybody else can too but just the way that him and Mark Andrews did it it was just different man like and you think back to this is why Lamar Jackson and Hollywood they had such a great connection and great chemistry because it was the same thing whenever a play will break down those were the two that they're oh yeah yeah we know what Lamar about to do okay yeah we see okay yeah let me go do this in the middle of the play those two were some of the best when it came to that the combination of Lamar Jackson Mark Andrews or Lamar Jackson Hollywood Brown they were the best when it came to those broken plays and you need somebody like that you need somebody who's not just gonna all right let me follow the rules whenever if I'm done following the rules and the rules are not working what do I do you know you need somebody who's ready to be innovative you need somebody who's ready to think on the fly and I'm not saying that the people that are on the team cannot do it but I'm just saying that that chemistry the chemistry that he had with Mark Andrews is he doesn't have it like that with the other guys but again now the Ravens are forced into a situation where that chemistry has to be built I seen some people in the comment section say oh well I guess Lamar Jackson he's he's gonna have to really pass that ball around now he's gonna have to really get that ball to other guys now besides Mark Andrews but the thing is the beautiful part about this season thus far obviously the injury is not beautiful at all we hate that but the beautiful part about this season thus far is that they've been doing that already he's already been spreading the ball around he's already been getting the ball to other receivers and other playmakers and another thing to I saw somebody say oh well it's Lamar Jackson really gonna have to start using the check down now he has he has been and that's another thing that has helped this offense out so much has helped out Lamar Jackson so much has been that check down whether it's to Justice here whether it's to Gus Edwards whoever maybe that check down has taken their game to another level because y'all remember before like Lamar when it came to check that no you see the running back of you right there I ain't on him I'm looking for something more and hey you know I'm greedy too but sometimes you gotta take the little stuff real quick but now like this the Ravens offense they're gonna have to hit a new level and I'm you know like especially receivers they're like oh yeah I know they said that Mark Andrews went out of course but especially receivers pass catchers that's their job to catch the ball they they want more they always want more catches and they always feel like they open somebody might be open a lot too which is great especially Zay flowers like he's Zay flowers is statistically open all the time so I'm sure they'll be willing and ready to take on even more responsibility but yeah they'll have to now but that that's just something that I was thinking about and I just getting the reminders of Mark Andrews still being out it reminded me of that even more Zay flowers he seems like something really really odd especially Zay flowers and Odell Beckham, Jr. I think those are the guys to me the most that are just ready for ready for the breakdown plays but again I mean we've seen it with Nelson Aguilore too and Rashal Bateman I don't even do it like they got guys that can do it but again it's just a matter of building it's a matter of building it's like when you're at work you all you you got somebody at your job that one of your co-workers one of your favorite co-workers y'all know each other y'all super cool with each other you cool with other co-workers too but with this co-worker y'all like super cool y'all don't work on projects together before plenty of times and y'all do a great job because y'all know how each other think y'all get that and now you got other co-workers that you don't work with before too but it's just not the same with this one co-worker but this one co-worker they're gonna be on leave for a little while maybe they just had a baby or something like that who knows but anyway they gonna be all leave for a little while so now it's like oh okay so now I gotta work with the other co-workers I ain't gonna problem nothing I love the other co-workers too but now I just got to figure out a way to get it done with them now I don't have the same chemistry with them that I do my favorite co-worker but you know what no no no we gonna make this thing happen we gonna make it work so she wow wow that favorite co-worker is out we are going to make this thing happen so that's exactly what the Baltimore Ravens are gonna do that's what they have to do they have no choice but to make it happen but again like we mentioned before the way that this offseason went the Baltimore Ravens really put themselves in a good position to where next man up yeah that sucks because when you talk about next man up that means that somebody went down but next man up it the quality is a lot better than it had been in previous years it and we talked about this even before Mark Andrews went down to this offense it's not and it wasn't a Mark Andrews or bus type of thing so that's another good sign too now somebody mentioned a really really good point and it's a sad point but it's a very valid point is that whenever a player gets hurt it creates an opportunity for somebody else and that's very very true and we've seen it plenty of times with plenty of players look at the more Jackson for example more Jackson was drafted 2018 was not the starter from jump was not expected to be the starter at all that season Flacco guy and they will put him in there a lot they wanted him on the field and they put him out on a lot but he wasn't a starter Flacco got hurt in that stealers game Ravens never looked back even in that playoff game which I'm glad that they did not because that just would have been that would have been just too shaky now but they never look back injury to Flacco provided an opportunity for Lamar Jackson Mark Andrews Mark and I mean we could do this with a million players and more even just on the Ravens alone but Mark Andrews he wasn't the starter he wasn't supposed to be the starter Ravens drafted Hayden Hurst in that same draft for the drafted Mark Andrews Hayden Hurst was a starter what happened Hayden Hurst got hurt Mark Andrews he never looked back and he became one of the best tight ends in the game and he wasn't even supposed to have that opportunity but he got that opportunity due to the Titan in front of him being hurt so it's a tough business it's a rough business and just opportunities are created in so many different ways we're of course gonna miss Mark Andrews because like you you're not replacing one of the best tight ends in the game but other guys will step up to just try to fill that void as much as they possibly can