It appears Urban Meyer has about as much credibility inside the Jaguars’ locker room as a random fan on Twitter.
Meyer — the former college coach at Florida and Ohio State — is just five games into his NFL coaching career and he has already made a mess of it. He has been in the headlines ever since a video of a young woman dancing on him went mega-viral.
In a recent interview, former NFL head coach Tony Dungy pointed out the most distrubing thing about the situation, and it had nothing to do with a woman dancing on him.
“I played football for probably 16 years, total,” Dungy said, via ProFootballTalk. “I coached for 28 years. I never went to a game where the head coach didn’t come back with my team, me and myself for 13 years as a head coach, 15 years as an assistant, 15 years playing when the head coach went to a game, when we returned the head coach came back with us. So that to me, I just don’t know how you do that and say, ‘Hey, I’m going to stay in Ohio.’… That was the mistake to me. What happened in the bar or whatever, that’s secondary. You go back with your team. We finished by getting home and getting everybody — that’s your responsibility as the head coach to make sure everybody lands on that plane, safe, everybody gets back to the facility, then you do what you have to do.”
“You are responsible for those guys until the trip is over,” Dungy added. “Someone could get sick on the plane. The plane might get rerouted and you have to land somewhere else. We had that happen where we had a snowstorm and we had to turn around and land back in the city we just left and spend the night. You never know.”
On Sunday, the Jags fell to the Titans to drop to 0-5. They are now at 20 straight losses, dating back to Week 2 of last season. It is the third-longest losing streak in NFL history, and the longest since 1976.
