Non Apple phones no longer working with iMessage

I had to reset iMessage on my iPhone and MacBook Pro in order to get it syncing again properly.  I don't know what happened but it just stopped syncing until I reset everything.  Now it is working.  However, I'm noticing that any non Apple phones are showing in Red in iMessage.  These are phones that I had had multiple conversations with successfully in the past, but now it just won't send anything.  I even have the old messages under the Red listed phone that show my previous successes.  Odd.

Do you have Settings > Messages > Send as SMS turned on?

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