A Decade of Andy Reid

[PhillyPhreak54]

Most of those ballboys are related to people who work for the team. I think Morningwood's kids were pulling ballboy duty a few years ago.

Reid runs a strict camp...thats why the fans who are on the sidelines can't take pics, drink water from bottles or anything like that.

[rjs246]

Most of those ballboys are related to people who work for the team. I think Morningwood's kids were pulling ballboy duty a few years ago.

Reid runs a strict camp...thats why the fans who are on the sidelines can't take pics, drink water from bottles or anything like that.

What the farg?

[Diomedes]

He's Mormon.  Only caffeine free Pepsi is allowed.

[ice grillin you]

i dont know how strict reids camp is...taterskins dont even allow fans on the sidelines...for that matter they dont allow fans even half as close to the field as youre at lehigh

[PhillyPhreak54]

Hell, think about those stalkers they have on ES...now imagine them on the sidelines next to Zorn telling him how ZORNY he makes them.

rjs,

No cameras, no cellphones, no water (or any beverage) bottles, no squatting down...you have to be standing and inside the boxes sprayed on the field at all times.

The reasoning is that a year or two ibto Reid's tenure some fans left empty bottles rolling around on the sidelines and a player stepped on one and busted his ass. So Andy banned them to save ankles.

[rjs246]

farg Andy Reid. Hard.

[Father Demon]

Andy is really mean.

[Eagaholic]

Reid yelled at the two ball boys on the sideline during Saturdays practice for looking at the crowd and not watching the field. It's not like they were late getting a ball in or something, they were just minding their own business and looking around. I don't even know if they get paid or it's just a fun thing for them to do but it was hilarious to see him take time out of practice to yell at two teenage kids. It was right after the fight and during a rough stretch for the offense so I'm sure he was frustrated but taking it out on the ball boys is just sad.

Those kids didn't honor the pact, the circle is now fractured.

Tomorrow Reid will have the janitor fire the kids.

[Rome]

I went to a camp in Jacksonville once.  Coughlin forbade the assistant coaches from wearing sunglasses because it didn't look "neat".

Evidently tough corneas were a prerequisite for coaching ability under Coughlin.

[Rome]

And by the way...dude in a wheelchair had passes to the VIP section of training camp.  No cripples other than the dead d-coordinator, evidently.

[MURP]

R Diddy - reminding us why he is a hall of famer.

[Eagaholic]

solid points by PFT

Andy Reid gets upset at the wrong people
Posted by Mike Florio on August 4, 2009 9:39 PM ET
We missed something on Monday, but it still merits a quick mention.

Eagles coach Andy Reid wasn't happy that the media found out that linebacker Stewart Bradley tore his ACL during a Sunday night scrimmage by communicating with someone other than Eagles coach Andy Reid.

So Eagles coach Andy Reid decided to project a little condescending pissiness during his Monday press conference.

"We won't talk about injuries today," Reid said.  "Some of your colleagues here decided that they would go to the players and/or other personnel here and ask about injuries.  I made a pact with you guys when I first got here that I would disclose to you the injuries that you just stay away from the players, stay away from other personnel in the organization and I would take care of you with that.  That part was breached."

Yikes.  A guy loses 75 pounds, and all of a sudden he's a diva.

In all fairness, teams are required to disclose no information in the preseason regarding player injuries.  And maybe Reid was upset that the report of a torn ACL became public before they could snooker another team for a trade or a free agent for a minimum-salary contract.

Still, Reid shouldn't be pissed at the reporters for doing their jobs.  He should be pissed at the in-house people who blabbed about Bradley's injury.

[ice grillin you]

you know reid is way off base when even eskin takes him to task....i wonder hoe this will effect howards vip connection to banner inc...hes either going to be farther out of the loop or hes going to ratchet up his homerism even more to make sure he isnt casted away

[reese125]

I think the media is in farg off mode because of this and is going to come at him even harder now...which I hope they do

Its bad enough he gives you squat to write about as a reporter, but then lash out at you to boot? Done.

[SunMo]

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/d..._the_NFLs.html

Andy Reid, his media rules, and the NFL's

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

If a middle linebacker shreds his anterior cruciate ligament in a scrimmage and the head coach refuses to confirm reports that it's torn, did he really tear it?

The first question always has been too deep for me. The answer to the second one is, of course he tore it, no matter how much Andy Reid and his new defensive coordinator, Sean McDermott, wish it weren't so.

Reid childishly refused to discuss Stewart Bradley's injury Monday afternoon because he claims reporters breached a "pact" he made with the media when he first was hired by the Eagles in 1999. The deal: You don't ask players and other club personnel about injuries and I'll shoot straight with you about those injuries.

A couple of things about that "pact": For starters, as it's been pointed out by a number of my colleagues, the media isn't employed by the Eagles. While he can order his players not to discuss injuries with the media, he can't order the media not to ask about them.

More importantly, though, even if Reid thought there was a "pact," he broke it a long time ago.

God knows how much money Joe Conklin has made off Reid's habit of starting his news conferences with, "OK, injuries." It's always good for a laugh, but the truth is, early on, Reid's injury updates actually were pretty informative.

At least compared to other coaches in the league.

This time of year, if a New England Patriots player gets hurt in training camp, the Boston media are lucky if Bill Belichick acknowledges the body part that was injured. A couple of years ago, cornerback Ellis Hobbs had wrist surgery on a Tuesday and was listed as "probable" by Belichick on the Thursday injury report.

As for Reid, he used to be fairly thorough and honest about the severity of player injuries. Put time and effort into his injury updates. But at some point, he started to get sloppy with them. Much like the rest of the portions of his news conferences, he started to put less and less effort into his injury updates, apparently deciding that the less he told reporters the better. In many cases, he fibbed.

Last year, when tight end L.J. Smith reinjured his surgically repaired sports hernia, Reid tried to tell us it was "a different area" of the groin and unrelated to the original sports hernia. Yeah, and I've got some oceanfront property in Kansas you might be interested in.

Once upon a time, Reid made sure the Eagles' media relations department released information on every offseason player surgery. But when Brian Westbrook had surgery on his injured knee in February, not a peep from the NovaCare Complex. Westbrook's agent eventually acknowleged a procedure.

When wide receiver Kevin Curtis had to have a second surgical procedure to repair his sports hernia in April, Reid said the surgery was to "finish" the orginal repair. Huh? C'mon, big guy. I'm not a doctor, but I've stayed at a Holiday Inn Express a few times.

When I talked to Curtis at training camp last week, he made it clear that the only reason he needed the second surgery on his groin was because he came back too soon from the first operation and aggravated the injury. When offseason rest didn't do any good, another surgery was the only option.

Bottom line: Reid's word on injuries these days isn't very reliable. Plus, in this instant-information electronic age where Michael Jackson's death was reported about two seconds after his heart stopped, did Reid really think he could sit on a season-ending knee injury to one of his star players for several hours? Is he really that out of touch with the way things work in today's world?

Oh yeah, another thing. The same guy that was chiding the media Monday about not "abiding by the rules," apparently doesn't think he has to do the same.

Since he became the Eagles' head coach, Reid has allowed very limited access to his position coaches. If you wanted to talk to one of them, you had to go through the media relations department, and if, if, Reid green-lighted the request, the questions could only be about the coach. Nothing about the team. Nothing about the players at the position he coached.

In other words, if I were interviewing offensive line coach Juan Castillo, I could ask him about his son Gregory, who is a cornerback at Iowa, or his son John, who is a distance runner at North Carolina State. But I couldn't ask him about any of his linemen.

Well, a few months ago, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made some significant changes to the league's media-access policy. He essentially told coaches they no longer could prevent reporters from talking to position coaches.

The Eagles have made only the offensive, defensive and special teams coordinators available on a regular basis.

The new policy states, "primary position coaches must be available on a reasonable basis during training camp and throughout the season through the team public relations department. Clubs may not put assistant coaches off limits to the media and may not unreasonably withhold permission for primary position coaches ... to speak to the media."

So, last week, I went to Eagles media relations director Derek Boyko and put in a request to talk to Castillo about his remodeled offensive line. Boyko told me he would run it by Reid. Reid told Boyko that HE would talk to me about the offensive line, not Castillo. When I asked whether Reid was denying my request to speak to Castillo, Boyko said, "No, he just said he would rather discuss it."

Now, Reid has had plenty to say about his offensive line, none of it all that informative. Which is why I wanted to talk to Castillo, who is egarded as one of the best offensive line coaches in the league. I wanted to talk to him about the challenge facing his new left tackle getting used to the nuances of a new quarterback. I wanted to talk to him about Shawn Andrews' move from right guard to right tackle. I wanted to talk to him about how long he thinks it will take his line to gel.

The NFL says Castillo, who has been an Eagles assistant since 1995 and has been Reid's offensive line coach since he arrived in Philadelphia, can talk to the media about these things. The rules in the league's media access policy say so. But Reid apparently has decided he doesn't have to abide by those rules. Yet, he somehow thinks we should abide by his rules.

Not gonna happen.