I covered the Giants when Ray Handley’s players stopped taking him seriously. Trevor Lawrence and Urban Meyer Getty Images It’s virtually impossible to regain that respect. I’ve covered NFL locker rooms that have lost respect for the head coach, and it never ends well. “He has zero credibility in that stadium,” a Jaguars player told longtime NFL reporter Michael Silver, adding, “He had very little to begin with.” It was a flimsy enough excuse that Meyer said he was staying behind to spend time with his grandchildren, because you know when NFL coaches can spend time with their grandchildren? During the offseason.Īlso of note: The woman who was playfully grinding her derriere into Meyer’s crotch at his bar looked to be a bit too old to be one of his grandkids.Īll of this leads to how Meyer is now viewed inside the Jacksonville locker room. If Meyer needed to separate from the team to tend to serious personal family business such an illness, that’s completely understandable.
1-overall draft pick, Trevor Lawrence, on his roster, wasn’t on the team plane back to Jacksonville is the most unforgivable act among these calamities. I think the fact that this coach, while being paid a reported $12 million a year and with the No.
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The subsequent series of apologies and excuse-making in the damage-control tour that has followed.Being caught on camera in a compromising dance-grind position with a woman who’s not his wife - at his own Ohio restaurant-bar, no less.Not joining his players on the team plane ride home after a difficult Thursday night loss at Cincinnati a week and a half ago.
It’s difficult to pinpoint which of Meyer’s recent transgressions was the worst: Meyer - the former college coach at Florida and Ohio State, whom Jaguars owner Shad Khan fell hard for because of his gaudy résumé and popularity in north Florida - is just four games into his NFL coaching career and he has already made a mess of it. The fastest way for an NFL head coach to lose his team is for him to lose the respect of his locker room.Īnd right now, it appears Urban Meyer has about as much credibility inside the Jaguars’ locker room as Oscar Mayer.
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