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New reports have emerged about Urban Meyer’s short time as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, and they paint a fuller picture — and it’s all bad. When Meyer was fired in December, no one was surprised. Between the team’s awful record, the controversy swirling around Meyer since he was caught at a bar dancing with a woman who was not his wife, unflattering reports of his coaching style, most people wondered why it didn’t happen earlier. But these new reports from The Athletic make it… Source link

There is one undeniable NFL coaching commandment: You cannot hide from your own shortcomings. You can deny them. You can ignore them. You can redirect them toward others or even lie about them. But eventually, the on-field product and the culture off it get chiseled into the epitaph hanging above your permanent record. And whatever you personally did to facilitate both will ultimately define your reputation. Urban Meyer might come to see that someday. That day is not today. That’s what… Source link

As the smorgasbord of failures and embarrassments piled up, it was the lagging performance and measured concern of quarterback Trevor Lawrence that signaled the end for Urban Meyer. Not the Chris Doyle fiasco. Not the offseason fines or Tim Tebow fantasy camp. Not skipping a team flight and the infamous viral bar video that followed. Not even allegedly kicking a former player during practice. To be sure, these incidents were all somewhere on the scale of being fireable.  But when it came to Source link

Urban Meyer is a bully. That has been true for a long time. It’s a character trait, if not an outright strategy. In football, especially the college level, it is neither rare nor necessarily negative. It wasn’t for Meyer. It fueled his enormous success — three national titles — far more than any schematic advantage. Urban Meyer wasn’t a play-caller. He was a recruiter, a motivator and a bully. He bullied his players, and bullied his assistant coaches, and bullied administrators, and… Source link

MMA Weekly UFC 259 bonuses all go to preliminary fighters Though UFC 259 features three championship fights, none of the athletes in any of those title fights earned UFC 259 bonuses. All of the UFC 259 official performance bonuses went to preliminary card fighters. UFC 259 Fight of the Night: Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Carlos Ulberg Kennedy Nzechukwu and Carlos Ulberg each earned an additional $50,000 for their efforts in the UFC 259 Fight of the Night. Ulberg started things off with a brutal head… Source link

Since taking the job as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Urban Meyer talked, both publicly and privately, about how he knew he was now working in the NFL, not in the fiefdoms of Ohio State or Florida. His players are now adults, not college kids. They have obligations, families, agents, contracts and experience. They also often have the confidence and power to voice their concerns and opinions. Teams have to be something of a partnership these days, not merely a dictatorship. And it’s… Source link