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Trevor Lawrence has had 25 NFL starts. Before that, he had 40 starts at Clemson, a big-time college program. That’s plenty of high-level football. A year and a half in the NFL isn’t enough to know exactly what a player is, but it’s a decent look at him. And what we’ve seen from Lawrence isn’t what we thought we’d be seeing when he was as hyped as any prospect over the last 10 years. Lawrence still has time to develop, and the Jacksonville Jaguars will give him as much time as reasonably… Source link

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There were countless stories out of the Jacksonville Jaguars surrounding Urban Meyer’s disastrous tenure, but perhaps the most fascinating was the tidbit that Meyer didn’t know who Aaron Donald was. Most anyone with an interest in pro football knows Donald, the Los Angeles Rams star defensive tackle who has an argument as the best player in all of football. It’s mind-blowing to think an NFL head coach didn’t know him. A report from The Athletic in March, citing a source, said Meyer asked a… Source link

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’s at least one thing in Urban Meyer’s life that lasted a shorter amount of time than his stint with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Urban Chophouse, a steakhouse in Columbus, will be sold and rebranded, according to Ben Koo of Awful Announcing. The restaurant, which opened in May, is being sold to Shawn Shahnazi, a local restaurant owner. As part of the rebrand, Meyer’s name will be taken off the restaurant. Shahnazi will also hire a new chef and rework the menu. The restaurant got decent… 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

The Jacksonville Jaguars have no intention of paying Urban Meyer another dime. The team reportedly fired Meyer for cause, suggesting they don’t want to pay out the rest of Meyer’s contract, according to Adam Schefter and Jeff Darlington of ESPN. The Jaguars fired Meyer on Wednesday after just 13 games. Meyer’s tenure with the franchise was mired by various embarrassing gaffes, the last of which involved allegations Meyer kicked his kicker. There wasn’t one specific instance that led to the… 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

Former Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Josh Lambo says that head coach Urban Meyer called him derogatory terms and kicked him at practice prior to his release from the team early this season.  Lambo told his account to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times in a story published on Wednesday. The alleged incident occurred during a preseason practice after Lambo had missed field goals in two preseason games. “I’m in a lunge position,” Lambo told the Times. “Left leg forward, right leg back. …… Source link