Andy Reid, Caught Between Two Dolts and the Cowboys
Uncategorized November 2nd. 2007, 11:25am
Fortunately, Barry Bonds has once again hogged the spotlight, quietly pushing this Andy Reid mess to the backburner. Plus, there’s debating every aspect of that little game Sunday afternoon. But seriously … this Reid story is much, much worse than Belichick’s kid getting arrested for pot. Shoving pills up his ass to sneak them into jail? Calling the Reid household a “drug emporium?” Don’t think there’s even any question here – the Eagles coach needs to step aside and clean up his life. Problem is, he’s in a no-win situation. With such an important game Sunday night – national television, the hated Cowboys coming to town – if Reid takes time off today, he’s deserted the team right before a pivotal game, and it probably will adversely affect whether or not he’s working next season. If he coaches Sunday and the Eagles get waxed … then they’ll say he wasn’t focused and needs to step down, not just step aside.
Which mean D-Mac and the Eagles have to win … which is possible. The Eagles swept ‘em last year.
Reid brothers sentenced; judge criticizes family (Inquirer)
Eagles’ Reid has hard choice ahead (LA Times)
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November 2nd, 2007 at 11:29 AM
desert the team before a pivotal game? ARE YOU SERIOUS?
both his kids are in jail, one tried to sneak drugs in. one is an admitted drug dealer, the other threatened a motorist with a gun. both admitted to taking other drugs and also steroids. and the talk is about him deserting his team? its the NFL, its entertainment, this dude’s family is fucked beyond repair. fuck the NFL, he should have retired when this shit broke out in the first place. this is an awful story.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:31 AM
Wait, if smuggling drugs into jail via your ass is wrong, i don’t want to be right.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:31 AM
No way Reid lasts beyond this season. How about a special celebrity edition of “Intervention?”
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:34 AM
How can he ‘clean up his family?’ These clownboots are grown men.
Throw em’ in the pen and let the Pookie and dem’ sort it out. He’s done all he could for two knuckleheads that want to be in the State Property Chain Gang.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:34 AM
spencer is right. I know that making direct comparisons between the sports world and the real world rarely work, but come on. If some office schlub had this kind of family drama, he’d take a leave of absence from work and no one would question whether it was the right thing to do. No employer could, in good conscience, question Reid taking time to be with his family right now.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:36 AM
Everything starts at home. His kids are like this because of the family environment that they had when they were young. Reid and his wife failed their kids plain and simple.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:37 AM
All the time he was showing toughness against T.O. in Philly for picayune shit, he was allowing his own home to be ran roughshod by his own drug abusing and dealing kids. Now he needs a judge to tell him that he needs to get two grown assed men out of his house? What makes it worse is all of this sympathy I’ve been reading over the past 24 hours about this “tragedy”. If this was some single mom living in the projects with grown sons doing the same thing, would we be hearing this sympathy?
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Seriously what would him staying home do? Doesn’t sound like it did much a few months ago. They are going to jail soon anyway, they are grown men, if they want to do drugs they will do drugs whether Papa Andy is there 4 hours a day or 24 hours a day. I agree with Darrell, this story isn’t all that sad, it’s called real life, it happens everywhere.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:42 AM
“If this was some single mom living in the projects with grown sons doing the same thing, would we be hearing this sympathy?”
Yeah, most likely…if she were the coach of a fucking NFL team.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:43 AM
These two idiots watched one too many episodes of The Wire.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 AM
Hey, let’s not forget Andy Reid is a football coach, he probably didn’t even know his kid’s names until the judge told him so. If you really want to blame something, blame the coaching culture in the NFL where the guys have to spend 20 hours a day working and playing parent to overgrown children.
If a guy like Tony Dungy could have a kid who was so depressed he killed himself, I think you really have to look at the systemic problems in place and not single out individuals and saying they’re bad parents.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:45 AM
Um, I don’t think clinical depression was the direct result of daddy not being around.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:48 AM
Joe Gibbs has a son who went to Stanford, played football, and is running his racing team while Gibbs is supposedly coaching the Redskins. No coach pulled the hours Gibbs pulled his first go round.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:59 AM
Depression is a function of everything.
And I’m not saying having a football coach for a dad is guaranteed to screw up a kid. What I’m saying is that there are real difficulties about raising a kid when you’re an NFL coach and those difficulties need to be included in a discussion like this. Andy Reid probably wasn’t going to win any Father of the Year awards regardless, but I bet a large part of why his kids were able to do crap like this is because he wasn’t around, and a large part of why he wasn’t around is because of his coaching responsibilities. To ignore that is just silly. It feels good to think there isn’t a systemic problem here and that it’s just One Bad Person, but that, while very common, is infantile.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Statistically speaking, take a family, add a couple million to their bank account, remove dad for 20 hours a day, and move around the country a lot. I am betting that the kids don’t turn out too well. Children need a stable family environment and the kids of an NFL coach probably don’t have that. I am sure that you can come up with examples like Gibbs, but I am sure that if I did some research I could come up with some other instances like Reid’s. Coaches like Cowher, quit because they felt bad that they were not around for their children. Maybe if Reid had done this a long time ago, he wouldn’t be in this situation.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:04 PM
first off…you have to think the ridiculous hours he put in had some effect on this whole shit. but its not an excuse. they fucked up raising their kids, but still, it blows.
and would a single mother in the projects recieve this sympathy if her son was a addict? no. but would she have to endure her family’s private news being broadcast nationally? dont think so.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Honestly I have no idea if family has anything to do with his son’s problems. However, from experience I can say that you can have the best family in the world and still have kids that end up doing drugs and get in trouble.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:23 PM
“and would a single mother in the projects recieve this sympathy if her son was a addict? no. but would she have to endure her family’s private news being broadcast nationally? dont think so.” No, because if that mother’s kids would have done half the things Reid’s kids have, they would have been in and out of the system at least 10 times by now. It wouldn’t have made the news, because it would have been routine news. Also, everyone needs to remember while they’re in this sympathetic light that Andy’s “kids” are in the same age group as Pac Man Jones. No sympathy or seeking of understanding for him?
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 PM
From the Philly Inquirer story:
“I liked being the rich kid in that area,” the report quoted Reid as saying, apparently in reference to North Philadelphia. “I could go anyplace in the ‘hood. They all knew who I was. I liked being a drug dealer. . . . These kids were scared of me, I was even selling to their parents.”
Ha. Reid hasn’t seen the ‘hood’ until he ends up behind bars. Although this white, upper class child of privilege may end up separated from the general population once in the joint.
His comments and attitude show how much the home life was in disarray.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 PM
On a lighter side, Randball has a headline on one of his entries that reads “Martina Hingis parties at Andy Reid’s house”.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:30 PM
I’m just waiting for Whitlock to come out and blame hip hop for the whole thing.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:41 PM
I’ve yet to hear anybody express sympathy for Reid’s kids. Maybe some bleeding heart excuse maker somewhere feels sorry for them, but I don’t. Fuck ‘em. They’re adults, they made their bed, now they can lie in it for 2 years in the poke.
Stepping down right now does nothing for Reid or his assclown kids. They’re already going to jail and most likely the only enjoyable aspect of his life right now is showing up for work.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 PM
Coaching culture in the NFL does need to be examined, but other than a great sociology discussion, nothing will come from it.
If Reid had to step away from the team for a week, i don’t think anyone in the Eagles organization will hold it against him.
When you think about it, this doesn’t seem uncharacteristic of Reid’s preceived personality. Look at how he’s managed troubled players within his team, he never embraced them, or seemed to go out of his way to fix the problem, he just made it worse.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:38 PM
The Reid kids should read Tony Dungy’s book. At least then they’ll kill themselves and Andy will have more time for what’s important in life. Football.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:49 PM
Big difference between Gibbs and Reid…
Gibbs was/is a big time religion guy. Religion is very useful for keeping kids out of jail, for the most part. It is a moral code.
I am sure that helped. These guys are pieces of shit who aren’t gonna amount to anything but another stupid show about jails on MSNBC at 10PM on Sunday night.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:38 PM
“I’m just waiting for Whitlock to come out and blame hip hop for the whole thing.”
Damn Darrell I was thinking the exact same thing. and your point about Pacman was dead-on, In the ESPN conversation all these posters were calling them “kids” even though they are 22 and 24. But Pacman was 23 all this past year and NO ONE EVER CALLED HIM A KID! Subconscious double standard at work.
Boys Will Be Boys!: Pacman Jones & The Sons of Andy Reid
http://www.cosellout.com/?p=152
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:38 PM
i feel for the kids. addiction is a bitch. i’m sure those kids are aware to some degree of the agony they’ve caused for those around them. that’s got to be a terrible feeling.
and yes, early twenties may constitute adulthood in the legal sense, but they’re clearly still kids.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:44 PM
Big difference between Gibbs and Reid…
Gibbs was/is a big time religion guy. Religion is very useful for keeping kids out of jail, for the most part. It is a moral code.
right, because it’s out of the question that a religious family would produce rebellious offspring.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:44 PM
drugs are bad okay
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:43 PM
I’m sick of hearing about what a good man Andy Reid is. What is this based on? Just because he’s a middle aged fat white guy doesn’t make him a good father. His raised a couple of thugs and kids emulate what they see at home.
On the positive side, his kid’s ability to shove a bottle of pills up his ass should serve him well in prison during those group showers.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:50 PM
Why would he quit his job to sit at home while his adult children sit in jail?
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:03 PM
“Big difference between Gibbs and Reid…
Gibbs was/is a big time religion guy. Religion is very useful for keeping kids out of jail, for the most part. It is a moral code.”
Uh, dude. Reid’s a Mormon.