Former ESPN host Mike Golic rips Urban Meyer, Jaguars for Tim Tebow signing
The Jacksonville Jaguars have made waves this week by signing former Florida QB Tim Tebow to play tight end.
Some people love the move. A lot of others hate it. Count former ESPN host and personality Mike Golic among the latter group.
As you can see below, Golic didn’t hold back ripping coach Urban Meyer for the signing, questioning whether Tebow can block or catch after 8 years of not playing football:
I honestly don’t understand the Tebow move at all, 8yrs out of ball, never played the position, can he block? Can he catch? Is this the way Urban is running the show……let’s not forget Urban’s ridiculous hire of the former Iowa strength coach, which lasted about a day.
— Mike Golic (@golic) May 10, 2021
He also referenced Meyer’s ill-fated hiring of former Iowa strength coach Chris Doyle, who was embroiled in controversy while with the Hawkeyes.
Doyle’s tenure in Jacksonville lasted only a single day. Will Meyer’s tenure be a success or a failure? It seems Golic thinks Meyer is heading down the wrong path early in his first NFL stint.
Publicity stunt.
Sure seems like there has to be some truth to that. It’s definitely generating more of a response than any of this year’s draft. And I can’t recall the Jaguars being in the headlines this much about anything, in recent memory.
Done for the locker room.
I bet he does just fine.
Gotta sell some more season-tickets for the Jags. The NFL is about money.
I don’t understand all the hate. The Jags have the right to sign anyone they want; Tebow might not even make the team, they are just giving him a chance to try the position and see if he can make the roster. In the meantime, he will be doing Trevor Lawrence a favor taking attention away from him so Trevor can focus on what he needs to do without the media scrutinizing every step. Also, Tebow will be a positive influence in the locker room and motivate and encourage the other players during his time there. In addition, Tebow is beloved in Jacksonville with all the charity work he does and the good person he is that the Jags will probably sell enough tickets and merchandise to make signing Tebow worth their while.
The woke crowd doesn’t like the fact that colin kaepernick can’t get another chance at disruption so Tim Tebow is the perfect target, white and Christian.
Maybe Kap should try out for WR?
Didn’t Denver make an attempt to bring Kap in and work him out and he declined? Didn’t he decline a league wide work out that was put together just for him? I think the difference between Kaep and Tebow is Tebow apparently wants to play football.
As I recall…Cap worked out for a number of NFL teams & not one even offered him. Any athlete’s skills erode quickly if he’s not using them.
Swnse you crossed the line with your post…the intolerant, biased, and bigoted white evangelical crowd loves making lies appear as truth and completely not understanding what the word, woke, means for a civil, decent, and tolerate society.
Oh my aching ass!
The woke crowd needs a nap
Kap doesn’t want to play in the NFL again. He has enough money from the settlement he got from the NFL. Why else would he have blown off the tryout that the NFL set up for him if he really wanted to play, or was capable of playing.
GatorFan, Exactly. We also have to remember that ESPN is a woke network. Of course they’re not going to applaud a religious athlete who wants to contribute. Tim has earned the respect to play a few years and is a gifted athlete. He’s two years older than Gronk but with fresh legs. What Urban does is Urban’s business and Golic needs to just shut it.
Where exactly did Golic mention anything about Tebow’ religion. He stated he had not played football for 8 years or ever played a position that required him to block or catch a football. Clearly, without the close friendship between Meyer and Tebow, Tim would not be signed to any NFL contract. It is what it is and is not what it is not.
And…so ESPN is sensitive to various forms of racism and intolerance of differences in society. What woke is. Good for ESPN. Sad that you think that is a negative.
Being “woke” doesn’t just mean being sensitive to various forms of racism. The real world application of that term by its adherents means it also involves not only a propensity to view everything through a racial perspective, but an immediate willingness to believe in conspiratorial explanations for occurrences and coincidences, both micro and macro. It implies a willingness to ignore every explanation that doesn’t put race as its main and only cause. “Woke” doesn’t allow for non-racial causes of phenomena. And “woke” means that all statistical disparities are explained solely and thoroughly through the prism of race. “Wokeness” stifles intellectual debates about cause and effect by reducing everything to race. It doesn’t allow for a problem to have multiple causes or to establish a hierarchy among those causes — everything is about race. “Woke” has good intentions but it is an unbelievably flawed framework for viewing the world and understanding the full gambit of issues, and their corresponding root causes, facing our society.
Couldn’t have said it better myself Boxster just like feminism and BLM being woke may have started with good intentions but it has transformed into something ugly and dangerous along with our cancel culture. And to think that I couldn’t like you anymore than I do boxster. Deff my favorite UGA fan in this site
@boxster355, great definition. I wish I could post your definition all over the internet.
Yes, Boxter. ESPN promotes conspiracies and focuses everything they do on race. Your “world” definition of woke is what the far right wing has created. Woke is not that. But it is clearly that to you and many that post of SDS. But it does not mean any of that to the large majority of Americans…which is a defined group of diverse individuals who are truly woke.
1. A “large majority” of Americans are not “woke”. People who identify as “woke” tend to be the loudest, both on the internet and in real life, so I don’t blame you for thinking that.
2. My definition of “woke” is 100% derived from my own experiences and observations. I consume exactly 0% of far right wing news or propaganda.
3. Your continual willingness to cast people who are not “woke” as far right conservatives or racially insensitive is not only proving the points I made in my original comment but show that you have no actual ability to intellectually engage people and rather just cast them as being bad or morally inferior — an absolute hallmark of “wokeness”. Cheers.
gatorfan, you bring up some good points as to the positives of bringing tebow in. that said, i don’t really see the positives actually spilling over to tebow personally. maybe tebow recognizes the fact that his tenure on the team won’t make it to the 53 and this is purely an unselfish act to help the team and not his own situation. i’m not saying that tebow is selfish, quite the contrary, as i think one could easily argue that he’s one one of the most unselfish professional athletes out there.
it’s just unfortunate that his legacy seems to be getting soiled after all of these failed invitations into other sports, positions, etc. from an outsider’s perspective, the level of ‘love’ and ‘admiration’ between tebow and meyer isn’t mutual and meyer has taken advantage of tebow’s love and admiration for him…to tebow’s own detriment
Dude…Meyer bought a house next door to Tebow. Meyer has deep admiration for Tebow and has no interest in harming Tebow’s legacy. Tebow asked for the tryout…not the other way around. And I state that as a non fan of Urban Meyer. Just the truth.
Who cares if Tim Tebow is trying out or not? For crying out loud.
exactly. Who cares?
Tim Tebow cares…He just wants to play and be on a team. I’m wishing him success as a tight end in the NFL.
Does Golic know if Tebow can block or catch? I don’t see Tebow as being much of an on the field contributor, but maybe he surprises. The media is just being the media here. That’s not a good thing.
LSUSMC if your big and can run, which Tim can, you can be taught, as he has a background in football. Sure its been a few years but we also have to remember all the negativity is coming from a guy who is part of that woke media. I can see Tim contributing as much as Gronk has. A couple of key catches a game. This is not a high bar.
that’s a foolish response. basically, you’re saying that anyone who is big and can run and has a background in football can be taught to be a TE? there’s plenty of failed quarterbacks, linebackers, etc. who are big and can run which played in the game and still had a passion to be in the league that couldn’t play te. there’s much more to the te position than you realize.
for you to suggest gronkowski as a measuring stick for tebow to reach is simply laughable. player who’s never played the position in comparison to a likely HoF?
Golic is paid to give his opinions about sports. You can choose to pay attention or not. Clearly you did.
Wow, so profound! What other nuggets of wisdom do you have for us??
Signing Tim will sell some season tickets and jerseys. If he makes the roster, he will definitely sell some regular game tickets. If he can’t catch or block, they can cut him with no real loss. With his work ethic, I think that he will do fine and be a contributor.
I want to be an ESPN tv personality when I grow up.
Golic is not a coach. He’s a woke ESPN former announcer. He know jack about being a coach. Yearly players are signed up and paid millions to move to a position they never played. Could it be you hate Tebow for his religious views? Also, Tebow is no runt and isn’t a snail. He’s an athlete with an athlete’s frame.
Golik is prob the least woke personality they have. And he never mentioned religion in his statement. That’s a really dumb take.
It does not matter if Tim Tebow is suiting up as Eddie Gaedel for promotional purposes, or if he is a starter for 16 games. I certainly am no Jag or Meyer fan, but it is their business, & solely their decision. Every one else is just an observer, & some are mouthier than others. At the very least, most of us will be very interested in watching this play all out. I hope Tebow does well & Golic has to eat his words
love the Eddie Gaedel reference. Who knows who that is before searching Google?
I didn’t, but I remember when it happened.
The contract is cheap, it cant hurt to have another vet on a team full of youngsters, especially a vet like Tebow, a passionate leader and a good speaker.
So many non woke (racially insensitive) Trumpsters trolling sport sites these days.
What an ignorant statement
Being non-woke doesn’t imply racial insensitivity. That’s not only a tremendously stupid thing to say, it also exposed your ignorance and biases.
Using your logic, your original woke attack posts are just as “stupid.” But now you see how truly stupid labeling people and organizations truly is. You can disagree with someone without labeling to divide and demean.
Stop. That’s not using my logic. At all. I guess that proves you didn’t bother to even try to understand what I was saying.
“But now you see how truly stupid labeling people and organizations truly is”
That’s something you’ve repeatedly done and why I decided to start calling out your stupid comments.
“You can disagree with someone without labeling to divide and demean.”
This is absolutely something you’ve done to anyone who you think isn’t woke.
I’m not sure if it pathetic or hilarious that you attempted to take the moral high ground and point out some superior lesson to be learned when you’ve been doing the very things you’re pointing out.
so many losers like you want to politicize everything
Calling someone or something “woke” is politicizing from the right…far right.
Dude you are such an idiot!!! Do you believe everything CNN tells you!!!
Golic is a C-Blocker! Who knew?
Suburban Meyer will suddenly have medical issues again next season and will retire for the 24th time.
Well UM is the coach and he wanted to call the shots. He’ll be held accountable for his decisions.
Uhhhh fat @ss that is why he is just signed to training camp. So he can show whether or not he can do those things. What a dumb@ss.
Tebow — is being considered only as a locker room presence — not as talented as many available tight ends —. Ut Meyer is a psychology guy