Urban Meyer’s NFL tenure went about as briefly and poorly as possible.
Meyer has been fired by the Jacksonville Jaguars, team owner Shad Khan confirmed, via ESPN's Adam Schefter.
The news comes as the Jaguars have struggled through a 2-11 season, which is Meyer’s first with the team and first-ever in the NFL.
Meyer’s job status seemed to be trending toward a firing over the last few months. Really, his tenure never got off to a good start.
To begin with, Meyer pulled off some personnel moves as if he were already an established, winning NFL head coach like Bill Belichick. He hired former Iowa strength coach Chris Doyle despite Doyle being pushed out by Iowa over racism claims. Then Meyer brought in Tim Tebow to play tight end before cutting him. Then Meyer didn’t fly home with his team after a Thursday night loss and was photographed with a blond woman at a bar. Then you had No. 1 pick Trevor Lawrence disagreeing with Meyer. Then there was his bad body language. Then there were reports about conflicts within the staff. And on Wednesday came the capper: former kicker Josh Lambo came forward with an allegation that Meyer not only bulled him, but actually kicked him.
On top of all this, the Jags were 2-11 and not showing many signs of improvement.
Jacksonville’s owner appeared to be ready to stand by Meyer, but Wednesday’s report may have been the tipping point.
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