From Joe, From Bob Ford's Inquirer column, Nov 2nd: It is always dangerous to make assumptions and judgments about what goes on in someone else's house, or to hand out advice to others.
That didn't stop Judge Steven O'Neill, who sentenced Garrett Reid and Britt Reid yesterday. "There isn't any structure there that this court can depend on . . . This is a family in crisis," O'Neill said.
A nice piece of grandstanding. Unnecessary and, since O'Neill has never been in the house, let alone lived there, unfounded. Kids with problems come out of all kinds of homes, anyway, those that are structured and those that aren't. The same set of parents can have kids that never cause a day of trouble or kids that end up standing before a judge with a bad case of robe-itis.
Whatever. O'Neill's snarky rebuke was just one more brick in the wall that has fallen on the Reids. It can't get much worse than to see one's children taken to jail. There is nothing left after that but funerals.
And that is why Andy Reid wasn't at work yesterday. He had somewhere else to be and something more important to do. The office hummed along nicely regardless. No one wore his helmet backward, no one lost his playbook.
Today is the Friday schedule. Meetings, practice, training room.
Practice begins at 11:45 a.m. The head coach is expected to be there. He will stand apart from the others as usual, and if it is a step further than before, only he will really know.
Joe, I don't see how you could say the judge is being too hard on Andy when you could very easily see that the Reid could easily be a factor in a homicide. One of his sons pulled a gun on a driver. Garrett Reid admitted to going into North Philadelphia and selling drugs. He says he was selling drugs to his friends. It's on the record that Tammy Reid knew one of her sons had a gun. Both of them knew there were drugs available throughout the home. The judge wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't scold them for the lack of control in their home.
