Urban Meyer fired in Jacksonville, league meetings, NFL's response to rising cases & 49ers long term plans with David Lombardi

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Urban Meyer is out in Jacksonville after multiple reports surface about a hostile situation in the Jaguars locker room. Lindsay Jones and Mike Sando react to the breaking overnight news before Robert Mays and Lindsay shift their focus to the league meetings are happening in Dallas as teams around the league continue to shift rosters around. Lindsay has updates on what teams and players are doing to keep the season going, the reveal of the 2022 salary cap number, how the Broncos continue to Stay Alive in the playoff hunt & more + The Athletic's David Lombardi, who covers the 49ers, joins in on the conversation to bring some insight as to why the 49ers didn't start Trey Lance in year 1, the plan for Jimmy Garoppolo in 2022, playoff hopes & more as week 15 arrives.

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0:00.0	Breaking news from the athletic.
0:06.1	Hi, this is Lindsay Jones from The Athletic Football Show.
0:09.8	Before we get to our regularly scheduled episode, we're here with some breaking news.
0:15.4	It is 1 a.m. Eastern, early Thursday morning, and the Jacksonville Jaguars have just fired head coach Urban
0:23.2	Meyer. It's been a tumultuous tenure for Urban Meyer. Has it been 10 years, Lindy? I don't think it's
0:30.5	even interrupt you in the lead in, but yeah, it feels like 10 years. I don't think it's, I don't think
0:35.0	it's even been 10 months. But here to join me to talk about this tonight for just a few minutes is my colleague at the athletic, Mike Sando.
0:43.5	Mike, what was your reaction when you saw this news after midnight, Eastern time that Urban Meyer had been fired?
0:50.1	You know, it's kind of a relief. I just, I really actually just think from a human level of the people in that building. I mean, this isn't a case of, you know, an allegation or two. This guy's obviously got problems in dealing with people and creates a very hostile environment. And so there's a lot of people there that, you know, have a lot on the line this season in their careers and their jobs and
1:12.2	their in their lives.
1:14.0	And so I just can only imagine for them, it's got to be a great night.
1:17.9	I mean, just the relief of that, of not having a boss like that who does the things that
1:22.0	we've heard about seen.
1:24.6	And I can tell you, before this even happened, I mean, everyone you
1:28.2	talked to about Urban Meyer has a story about the time he wasn't respectful to him or that type of
1:32.1	thing. I got five of them which is off the top of my head. Yeah. So just to recap, you know,
1:37.6	this news came very late Wednesday night, early Thursday morning, depending on which time zone that
1:43.0	you're in. And it came a couple hours after
1:45.1	the Tampa Bay Times reported a story in which Josh Lambo, who is the former kicker in Jacksonville,
1:51.2	accused Urban Meyer of kicking him. And so obviously there's a whole lot of jokes all over the
1:55.7	internet about, you know, kicking the kicker. And this was kind of the final straw there. And that's
1:59.7	ultimately what did him in. But it's true because there were story after story after story mistake after mistake
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