The Jacksonville jaguars' decision to hire Urban Meyer as the head coach is worse than it originally seemed and that's saying something.
Meyer set the Jaguars back and it will be up to Doug Pederson, general manager Trent Baalke, and owner Shad Khan to clean the mess. As Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk noted a while back, Khan was in recruiting, not hiring mode, when he courted Meyer, and instead of vetting him and doing due diligence, he try to convince him into becoming the head coach. Meyer’s time in Jacksonville was filled with dysfunction, poor coaching, and scandals.
Reporters Jayson Jenks and Mike Sando spoke to multiple sources, including former Jaguars wide receiver D.J. Chark, who said Meyer was belittling, ...
He said the argument with Jones was overblown. Meyer denied the report. “I know he would come up to us and tell us if the receivers weren’t doing good, he wasn’t going to fire us, he was going to fire our coach. A veteran member of the football operations staff told the Athletic it was, “The most toxic environment I’ve ever been a part of. Meyer said if the mistake ever happened again, he would cut everyone. According to a story from The Athletic published on Monday, the answer is yes.
The dedicated, diligent, maniac of a competitor known as former Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer, had some basic problems when putting together an NFL ...
He will be on the board of a new non-profit that taking advantage of the new NIL rules to Ohio State football and basketball players to work with charities, according to the Columbus Dispatch’s Joey Kaufman. Here’s what Meyer had to say about NIL just last season with the Jaguars.“[It’s] wild stuff man,” Meyer said to the media. It doesn’t matter the douchey name of this foundation, or whatever the percentage is of douchey people involved with it, nothing can make this sentence sound right: Urban Meyer is on the board of a nonprofit organization that is getting major college athletes money to do charity work. increments, letting you get buff as heck at your own pace (and with room to spare).He’s not coaching, but he is back in a familiar place — O.H-I.O. Meyer is not employed directly with Ohio State athletics, or the university, but he will absolutely be working to bring in talent for one of the two places he recently left in shame. However, he gets to use his greatest skill to help the place that he loves, “He’s recognized as one of the best recruiters in college football history,” THE Foundation tweeted out on Wednesday. He stepped down as Ohio State’s coach following the 2018 season. The organization will get rolling at the end of March, and it was co-founded by former Buckeye quarterback Cardale Jones, and Ohio State Booster/local real estate developer Brian Schottenstein whose goal with this organization is for it to become the largest NIL fund in America. And the name of this nonprofit, THE Foundation (excuse me while I clean up my desk, I just vomited.) It really is the perfect place for Meyer to get back involved with football. In this report, he was accused of belittling players and coaches on a regular basis, calling his staff losers, and once telling his players, that if he cut them, they wouldn’t get a job making more than $15/hr.Also, this former educator once told Trevor Lawrence ,when the quarterback was breaking down a route to John Brown, that Lawrence needed to slow it down for Brown. “These boys from the South, their transcripts ain’t right.” Do you know what Urban Meyer is up to these days?
Meyer reportedly didn't know who Aaron Donald was when he arrived at training camp, and berated players to the point of tears.
The former Jaguars head coach reportedly regularly threatened to fire coaches and players.
The disgraced coach left the room and left the staff members to console him. In the report, there are several accounts of Meyer belittling staff and players while also threatening to fire them on a regular basis. He would usually say that when the coach was around.”
Naturally, as all Urban anecdotes do, it has taken Twitter by storm. The excerpt comes from an excellent longform piece published by The Athletic on Monday, ...
He was an enormous problem for Meyer's Jags in Week 13, when he had one sack, four tackles and a forced fumble. The apparently-true-but-impossible-to-believe story comes from an anonymous source , so it's hard to take seriously. Naturally, as all Urban anecdotes do, it has taken Twitter by storm.
Urban Meyer's tenure with the Jacksonville Jaguars went about as poorly as it possibly could have. He didn't even last a full season, getting fired in ...
But multiple sources said Meyer was unfamiliar with star players around the league, including 49ers receiver Deebo Samuel, Seahawks safety Jamal Adams and Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald, a three-time NFL defensive player of the year. He’s arguably the best player in the world, and whether you’re coaching Pop Warner, high school, college or a team in the CFL, you know who the three-time Defensive Player of the Year is. He didn’t even last a full season, getting fired in December after just 13 games with the Jaguars.
Urban Meyer's disastrous tenure in Jacksonville can be defined by misstep after misstep, and according to a new report, one of those gaffes apparently ...
Meyer was fired in mid-December, 13 games into the season. “These boys from the South, their transcripts ain’t right.” He would usually say that when the coach was around.”
A new report sheds more light on Urban Meyer's disastrous tenure as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Meyer had to apologize to his team in October after he stayed in Ohio following a Thursday night loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. A viral video showed a woman dancing on him that weekend at a Columbus, Ohio restaurant he owns. In December, after the Tampa Bay Times reported Meyer kicked kicker Josh Lambo prior to a preseason game, the Jaguars finally decided the professional experiment with the three-time national champion coach. Months after his brief NFL tenure ended, Urban Meyer's bingo board of disasters had another number called out Monday morning in a story that highlighted the "toxic environment" cultivated by the much-maligned coach.
The report also says that Meyer was unfamiliar with some of the game's best players, including Rams defensive lineman Aaron Donald and 49ers wideout Deebo ...
Meyer would leave the room, leaving the crying player to be consoled by members of the meeting. "I’m hearing he might be a problem for us." The Athletic reports that Meyer once "berated a player so harshly that the player cried" during a coaching and personnel meeting.
Urban Meyer's attempt at coaching in the NFL went about as bad as it could possibly go, and reports like this continue to highlight why.
If Meyer was hoping to improve his image as a 'good' person in the NFL, he failed miserably. Being part of this circle meant that Meyer would reportedly provide preferential treatment to you as a player - like hiding positive drug tests from the public. When it comes to college football, few can compare with Urban Meyer's success in terms of wins and losses.
For most new NFL coaches, it's not easy to get fired before you even finish your first year on the job, but that's exactly what happened to Urban Meyer in ...
The former Jags coach was forced to apologize to his team just days after the incident. Benching a player is one thing, but forcing him to go back in for the final few plays of a blowout is misguided at best and callous at worst. "I know he would come up to us and tell us if the receivers weren't doing good, he wasn't going to fire us, he was going to fire our coach. However, the coach then forced Robinson to go back in the game in the fourth quarter with the Jags TRAILING by 30. "And I truly can't tell you one player that maximized their value on the Jags this year." For most new NFL coaches, it's not easy to get fired before you even finish your first year on the job, but that's exactly what happened to Urban Meyer in 2021.
In an alarming report detailing Meyer's time with the Jaguars, an anecdote detailed that Meyer didn't know who Aaron Donald was.
A rebuild in Jacksonville was expected, and based on Monday’s reporting, it wasn’t the record alone in Year 1 that got Meyer fired. ‘I’m heading he might be a problem for us,’” Jenks and Sando wrote. But multiple sources said Meyer was unfamiliar with star players around the league, including 49ers receiver Deebo Samuel, Seahawks safety Jamal Adams, and Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald, a three-time NFL defensive player of the year.
Meyer was reportedly unaware of the three-time Defensive Player of the Year when he coached against him on Dec. 5 this past season.
The Jags had a 2-11 record before Meyer was fired. Having some basic knowledge of the opposing teams' personnel might have helped Meyer avoid being fired before even finishing out his first season as head coach. 'I'm hearing he might be a problem for us.'"