Urban Meyer is not a well liked man in his locker room.
Thirteen games into his NFL head coaching career, Urban Meyer looks primed and ready to make a return back to college, because this professional football thing is not working well for him.
After Sunday’s 20-0 loss to the Jaguars, Meyer threatened to fire whomever the employee was that was leaing information about him and the organization.
“What’s the answer [when things are going badly]? Start leaking information or some nonsense?” Meyer said. “No. No, that’s nonsense. That’s garbage. I’ve been very blessed. I’ve not really dealt with that. I’ve not dealt with, ‘Well, did you hear what he said?’ What? No. Let’s improve on offense and get our quarterback in a position to be successful. That’s our focus.
“What someone’s brother said, or someone said someone said, that will occupy very little of my time. And if there is a source, that source is unemployed. I mean, within seconds, if there’s some source that’s doing that.”
The next day, Pro Football Network shared a quote from an anonymous Jaguars player who seriously has issues with Meyer and the way he had handled himself from the beginning.
“He came in preaching values, family, and team. It’s been anything but since the start of training camp. He’s a phony and a hypocrite. We know who he is,” the anonymous Jaguars player said.
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Meyer has since denied the NFL Network report that he called his assistant coaches “losers” and questioned their résumés during a staff meeting.
“Calling someone a loser, that’s inaccurate,” Meyer said. “I have high expectations for our coaches. I’m very demanding of our coaches and expect guys to be held accountable for their positions, and the times when they’re not, we address it. But I assure you there was not whatever report … that’s nonsense.
“[Regarding Jones] I think I said something like we have some injury issues and some lack of consistency. We talked about that, and he’s great. We moved on. One thing about Marvin, and there’s a lot of players, especially these professional veterans, there’s a lot of pride. Some guys aren’t used to this, and he’s one of them. But he’s fantastic and we have a fantastic relationship, and I started hearing that, and Marvin looked at me — he walked by yesterday when I saw something on TV, like a heated argument, and he goes, ‘I guess we’re not allowed to talk anymore, are we?’ and started laughing about it. So there’s nothing.”
Everything about the team is just flat out embarrasing, and the media isn’t paying much attention to just how bad Trevor Lawrence has been because Urban Meyer is a huge story that overlaps it.
The front office will have a huge decision to make during the offseason on whether they want to bring him back for 2022.
