{"id":2832,"date":"2025-07-12T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/2832\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T00:00:04","slug":"mark-andrews-ive-had-to-eat-a-lot-of-crap-but-im-excited-to-show-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/2832\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Andrews: I’ve had to eat a lot of crap, but I’m excited to show who I am"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lamar Jackson said last month he didn\u2019t like how people were talking<\/a> about David Andrews after the tight end\u2019s two gaffes in the playoff loss to the Bills. Andrews didn\u2019t much like it either.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I\u2019ve had] to eat a lot of shit<\/a> in the last however long it\u2019s been,\u201d Andrews said Friday, via Jonas Shaffer of The Baltimore Banner. \u201cBut I\u2019m excited to go show who I am, what I can be and what I can help this team with, because I\u2019m not done yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrews lost a fumble in the fourth quarter with the Ravens trailing the Bills 24-19, and then, with 1:33 left, he dropped a game-tying two-point pass from Jackson.<\/p>\n

With Andrews headed into the final year of his contract, his future in Baltimore was a source of speculation. Andrews reiterated that he focused on \u201cthe good things, the things that I can control\u201d during an offseason of criticism and uncertainty.<\/p>\n

Andrews, 29, caught 55 passes for 673 yards and 11 touchdowns last season.<\/p>\n

About to enter his eighth season, Andrews was told Friday that an ESPN survey of league executives, coaches and scouts considered him one of the top-10 tight ends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that there\u2019s not many 11-touchdown guys left off the top tight end list, but it is what it is,\u201d Andrews said, smiling. \u201cAgain, it wasn\u2019t until six games [into the season] that I scored a touchdown, so I know what I can do. There\u2019s points last year where I wasn\u2019t my best; I wasn\u2019t fully there. But I\u2019ve got a great direction. I\u2019ve been able to take care of my body, learn different ways to stay at the top of my game, and I just know what I can bring and who I am as a player. It\u2019s still there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamar Jackson said last month he didn\u2019t like how people were talking about David Andrews after the tight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}