I think Andy Reid has a few more problems than the Dallas Cowboys this weekend.
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11/2/07
"A judge who sentenced Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons to jail Thursday likened the coach's home to ''a drug emporium'' and questioned whether his adult sons should live there, given their drug problems.
''There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon,'' Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said before sentencing Reid's son Britt to up to 23 months in jail plus probation.
''I'm saying this is a family in crisis,'' O'Neill said.
Earlier Thursday, O'Neill sentenced Garrett Reid, a drug addict and dealer who said he got a thrill out of selling drugs in ''the 'hood,'' to up to 23 months in jail for smashing into another motorist's car while high on heroin.
O'Neill said that searches of the Reid family's house and vehicles found a long list of drugs, guns and ammunition.
While police found only weapons and ammunition -- and not drugs -- at the house, O'Neill apparently based his remarks on Britt Reid's statement that he once mistakenly grabbed a Vicodin tablet instead of health supplements out of a pill drawer at the home.
He said that both boys had been over medicated throughout much of their lives and that Britt got hooked on painkillers when he suffered a football injury in high school.
''It sounds more or less like a drug emporium there with the drugs all over the house, and you're an addict,'' O'Neill told Britt Reid."
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Source:
"Reid wasn't at work yesterday and that pretty much has to be judged on its face value. He has said that his family problems won't affect his job. That wasn't the case yesterday. He missed work.
He missed it three days before the Eagles play a game that will decide whether their tattered season can be mended. Did it matter that he wasn't there? Did the players, like horses sensing an unsure rider, feel the absence on the practice field?
Those questions can't be answered, will never be answered. The players said it was a regular day. Being players, they also joked about it. William Thomas said they tried not to treat the assistants too much like "substitute teachers." Donovan McNabb joked about not seeing Reid on the field in his "faded black shorts and . . . the little gray shorts he has underneath the faded black shorts."
They joked because it is hard to know what to say. The man who exerts so much control on their lives, who is so precise in his demands, was missing work because of a situation that has gone so far beyond his control."
Article:
11/2/07
"A judge who sentenced Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons to jail Thursday likened the coach's home to ''a drug emporium'' and questioned whether his adult sons should live there, given their drug problems.
''There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon,'' Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said before sentencing Reid's son Britt to up to 23 months in jail plus probation.
''I'm saying this is a family in crisis,'' O'Neill said.
Earlier Thursday, O'Neill sentenced Garrett Reid, a drug addict and dealer who said he got a thrill out of selling drugs in ''the 'hood,'' to up to 23 months in jail for smashing into another motorist's car while high on heroin.
O'Neill said that searches of the Reid family's house and vehicles found a long list of drugs, guns and ammunition.
While police found only weapons and ammunition -- and not drugs -- at the house, O'Neill apparently based his remarks on Britt Reid's statement that he once mistakenly grabbed a Vicodin tablet instead of health supplements out of a pill drawer at the home.
He said that both boys had been over medicated throughout much of their lives and that Britt got hooked on painkillers when he suffered a football injury in high school.
''It sounds more or less like a drug emporium there with the drugs all over the house, and you're an addict,'' O'Neill told Britt Reid."
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Source:
"Reid wasn't at work yesterday and that pretty much has to be judged on its face value. He has said that his family problems won't affect his job. That wasn't the case yesterday. He missed work.
He missed it three days before the Eagles play a game that will decide whether their tattered season can be mended. Did it matter that he wasn't there? Did the players, like horses sensing an unsure rider, feel the absence on the practice field?
Those questions can't be answered, will never be answered. The players said it was a regular day. Being players, they also joked about it. William Thomas said they tried not to treat the assistants too much like "substitute teachers." Donovan McNabb joked about not seeing Reid on the field in his "faded black shorts and . . . the little gray shorts he has underneath the faded black shorts."
They joked because it is hard to know what to say. The man who exerts so much control on their lives, who is so precise in his demands, was missing work because of a situation that has gone so far beyond his control."