Reid talks about his muddled right tackle situation

Andy Reid was his usual happy-go-lucky self today when addressing right tackle Shawn Andrews' latest setback.

"Shawn Andrews his back flared up again and neither our people nor Shawn feels like he can make it through this game so he will not play and is out," Reid said at his post-practice press conference.

Pressed on whether he can count on Andrews for the long-term, Reid was non-committal.

"Well right now we’ll just see. It’s important that it calms down and we’ll go from there. We’ll just see how it responds here.

"I just think it’s a matter of his back getting better. That’s how these things work; I said that right from the get-go. When you’re dealing with backs they flare up and things happen."

Reid then spoke about Andrews' possible replacement, veteran Jon Runyan.

"I wanted to just make sure that I got a look at him firsthand," Reid said of Runyan, who worked out for the team on Thursday. "I’m not going to get into how he looked and all of that, I just wanted to make sure that I saw him firsthand. We haven’t done anything there, but it was good to see him and have him workout."

For now Winston Justice will start in Andrews' place and Reid put his enigmatic All-Pro on notice.

"I thought one of the real positives coming out of camp was Winston Justice and how he played," Reid said. "I thought it was valuable, valuable experience that he got in there. He will have an opportunity Sunday to play against two good football players and I just look forward to seeing him out there competing."

Asked whether the pedestrian Justice could win the starting job, Reid did his best to light a fire under Andrews.

"Absolutely, yeah just depending on how things go here."