Best of Straight Outta Vegas with RJ Bell
Covino & Rich
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
RJ Bell and AJ Hoffman react to the Jacksonville Jaguars firing Urban Meyer. The guys explain why Vegas upgraded the Jaguars for their Week 15 matchup after the news of the firing. The guys debate what role the media played in Meyer's firing.
Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:08.6 | Jacksonville fires Urban Meyer last night, |
| 0:11.2 | presumably about the comments that the kicker, |
| 0:14.3 | the former kicker came out and gave about him being kicked by Urban Meyer. |
| 0:18.2 | Maybe that was the straw that broke the camels back. |
| 0:20.5 | But Vegas has responded by saying the Jags are upgraded without Urban Meyer. |
| 0:27.0 | Okay, let's start there, and then we'll get into the Urban Meyer specifics. |
| 0:31.9 | I think that this is a very interesting time to kind of say who is watching the watchers. |
| 0:39.9 | And what we know is the media watches what happens in the NFL and various other things. |
| 0:46.2 | And now the question is, is there biases? |
| 0:49.6 | Are there biases in the media? |
| 0:51.9 | And could this situation tell you something about the media themselves? |
| 0:56.5 | I think it does. First, though, objectively, Vegas-style the line in this game. So Jacksonville, |
| 1:03.3 | surprisingly, if you can imagine, was favored this week. Why? Because they're playing the Houston |
| 1:09.2 | Texans hosting the Houston Texans, and they were |
| 1:13.4 | favored by three and a half points as of yesterday. Now, even a day or two ago, it was three. Now, |
| 1:20.8 | home field in the NFL is less than three these days, so that meant that Jacksonville was |
| 1:26.2 | considered the superior team, okay, by some amount, |
| 1:30.2 | let's say from minus two to minus three, which is pretty significant. Then it went up to three |
| 1:35.5 | and a half. And this was yesterday, when there was no sense that Urban Meyer was going to be fired |
| 1:40.8 | this week, you would think if there was any chance of him retaining his job after this year, they'd |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

