Urban Meyer joins Jacksonville Jaguars as new NFL head coach
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Ari react to three-time College Football National Champion, Urban Meyer, leaving the college football ranks to join the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars as the organizations newest head coach. Is Jacksonville's situation ideal for Urban Meyer (1:30)? Was this the perfect scenario for the 56-year-old nascent NFL coach to make the jump to the pros? In what facet of his coaching approach, will Meyer have to recalibrate in order to coach professionals (9:00)? What could be the perception of Meyer by NFL/Jaguars fans (16:30)? Will culture building have the same impact in the majors as it does in the minors, and which former staffer of Meyer's cabinet could join him at the next level (21:00)? Lastly, is there lingering concern about Meyer's health (30:30)?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show. |
| 0:11.9 | College to the Pros edition. |
| 0:14.2 | Urban Meyer is the new head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. |
| 0:18.1 | Ari Wasserman, you and I have both covered Urban Myers a beatwriter. He has mentioned many, many times that he wasn't sure that he'd be |
| 0:25.7 | the kind of guy who could be an NFL coach because NFL coaches lose games. |
| 0:30.9 | Urban Meyer doesn't like losing games. This is very, very interesting, though, because he's |
| 0:36.2 | going to the Jaguars. |
| 0:39.2 | They have the number one pick in the draft. |
| 0:40.7 | They have 11 total draft picks. |
| 0:44.0 | They have nearly $100 million in cap space. |
| 0:47.0 | This is a great opportunity for Urban Meyer. |
| 0:51.9 | If you're going to go to the NFL, this feels like, hey, this is your best shot here. |
| 0:56.0 | The best chance about being two and four is the chance to go three and four. |
| 0:57.7 | That's right. |
| 0:59.1 | Oh, man. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, I mean, let's put it this way. |
| 1:05.8 | I feel like when you've accomplished everything there is to accomplish in a sport, |
| 1:11.7 | and granted, he isn't Nick Sabin and he hasn't won seven national titles in whatever years it's been. |
| 1:14.0 | But he's accomplished everything there is to accomplish. |
| 1:17.8 | He's built multiple programs in college. |
| 1:21.7 | He's won three national championships, two different schools. |
| 1:25.3 | And, you know, he's at the point in his life where maybe he wants to try something different. |
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