Urban Fired: Bill Barnwell on Why Meyer Crashed and Burned in NFL

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In the end, the Urban Meyer era in Jacksonville lasted just 13 games. Meyer was fired with a 2-11 record in Jacksonville, but it was issues off the field that ultimately doomed his tenure with the club. There was the video of woman dancing near his lap that went viral, there were the reports of him calling his assistant coaches “losers,” and then this week, reports surfaced that he kicked and berated former Jags kicker Josh Lambo. Bill Barnwell explains what the firing means for Meyer, Jacksonville, and the rest of the NFL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Look, this is the biggest failure of leadership on the part of a coach, probably in the history of the NFL, at least in my time anyway.
0:11.3	Someone who was handed, gifted didn't earn.
0:15.2	He was handed and gifted an opportunity where he had free reign over an organization.
0:21.6	And what did Urban Meyer do with it?
0:23.4	He made it about him, didn't make it about establishing his credibility,
0:27.6	didn't make it about having a positive impact on the number one draft pick.
0:31.0	He didn't make it about any of those people.
0:33.9	That is Lewis Riddick, cutting right to the core of the parable of Urban Meyer,
0:39.3	the first year Jaguars head coach who got fired before he ever saw a week 15 in the NFL.
0:46.5	So today, Bill Barnwell is here to make sense of one of the most humiliating tenures we have ever seen in sports.
0:54.7	And what can possibly happen next?
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