Garrett Reid, son of Philadelphia Eagles, Andy Reid, coach, was found dead Sunday morning in his bedroom to his training team in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, after a troubled life that included the combating drug use and prison season.
The younger Reid, 29, was unable to resume after police responded to a 911 call on Sunday, and the county coroner, said an investigation was underway. Lehigh University police said they were not involved suspicious activity. No cause of death was given.
According to the team, Andy Reid, has requested that the training camps continue. He did not attend daily team rounds of inspection, which began with a prayer by the players, or practice in the afternoon, but the team owner, Jeffrey Lurie, said Sunday he expects Reid returned to the team this week and be on the bench when the team opened preseason game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the evening.
Garrett Reid had worked with the reports, strength coach of the team during training camp.
"It's a difficult morning for us all in the Eagles family," said general manager Howie Roseman, announcing the death of Garrett Reid after practice in advance. "Garrett grew up with this team, what makes this story even more difficult for us to process."
Later he added: "Personally, we have been with Andy for a long time S has always been strong for us, we will be strong for him now as a father and a friend, we are all sick.". .
Last week, Andy Reid, was unusually relaxed after a morning tour of the field, joking with reporters during a visit fun and a veteran who had befriended during the long recovery from human lesions. Introduction of his 14 seasons with the Eagles, Reid spoke not think the pressure of his work.
Personal travails are, however, was very heavy on Reid and intertwined with their work for at least five years. In 2007, he took a license for five weeks of absence from the Eagles - unusual in a world where coaches are proud to announce that sleep in their offices - and accompanied Garrett to a drug rehabilitation center After Garrett has admitted doing heroin before causing a crash that sent a woman to a hospital.
The day of the accident Garrett, his younger brother Britt pointed a gun at another driver during an incident of road rage on, and they found drugs in his car. Both Reid then spent time in prison, the sentence, the judge has described her family home as "more or less like a drug emporium."
Although Garrett was in prison, was caught smuggling of prescription pills in his cell. According to documents prepared before his conviction by the trial service, Garrett said alcohol and drug abuse began after graduating from high school in 2001. Garrett said in court documents that he began selling drugs in 2002.
"I do not want to be this man who was the son of head coach of the Eagles, who was in poor condition and drugs and overdose and just fell into oblivion," said Garrett of their sentence .
When Andy Reid returned to his absence, told reporters that he believed at least briefly, giving your job because of the difficulty of their children.
"If you say that after a defeat or a victory to make a lot of thought, I'm sure you can add to this," said Reid in 2007. "Yes, go back and reflect on many things."
When the Eagles signed Michael Vick in 2009 after serving a sentence in federal prison for his role in a dogfighting operation, said Reid moved to consider Vick, in part because of a second opportunity offered to their children. Reid and his wife, Tammy, have three children.
Lurie spoke with Reid and Reid said Sunday that he was losing badly and probably missed practice Monday, too.
"Today is one of the toughest days of life," said Lurie. "Andy is a rock-solid man. I think what makes a great coach is his combination of compassion, the emotion and strength. And today, all exhibits.
"It s all have been unthinkable - .. Most of us have suffered the tragedy of our lives Losing a child is unimaginable loss of a child is unimaginable - the pain .."
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