Steve Spurrier shares thoughts on how Urban Meyer will adjust to coaching in the NFL
Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer are the two head coaches in Florida football history to win a national championship. They now have something else in common as Meyer accepted his first NFL gig taking the Jacksonville Jaguars head coaching job this week.
Spurrier departed Florida after the 2001 season to coach Washington. Making the jump from college to the pros did not go well for Spurrier. Meyer is making the jump to the NFL two seasons removed from his last college game.
This weekend, Spurrier joined Mad Dog Sports Radio on SiriusXM to share his thoughts on what kind of coach Meyer will be with the Jaguars.
“I believe he should have the final say and be in charge of the team,” Spurrier said. “Urban will be in charge. The head coach ultimately has to be the guy to make the call. He’ll lean on the other guys. He might say, ‘hey whos the best offensive tackle out there, you guys have watched it more than I have. You rank those guys and if we need to draft one, we’ll do that.’ He’ll lean on the NFL people but it’ll be his final call, I’d say, on just about everything.
“I think that’s very helpful. He’s got nowhere to go but up. (The) team won one game last year, he might win eight-times more games this year… I think he can win half of them just by bringing in new talent and what’s there now. I believe free agent guys will want to go to Jacksonville, the ones who really want to win… There’s a lot of NFL guys who are on a bad team that would like to play for a winner, a champion. A team that can win a Super Bowl because that’s a memory of a lifetime. We all have money, but to have a Super Bowl ring… that’s important to men who want to be winners, so I think he can attract all kinds of free agent players.”
There’s already plenty of overlap between the Gator and Jaguar fanbases, but Meyer in Duval will probably lead to even more Florida fans checking out Jacksonville games on Sundays.
“Urban will be in charge….It will be his final call on just about everything.”@SteveSpurrierUF told @LanceMedow why it’s important for Urban Meyer to have control of personnel in Jacksonville & why he thinks Meyer will attract free agents to the #Jaguars pic.twitter.com/XpCzuBCqzk
— Mad Dog Sports Radio (@MadDogRadio) January 17, 2021
[H/T The Spun]
Much more interested in our current players and coaches. Don’t care about the Jags at all.
Now Urban, this is how you throw you visor down. Are you left handed? No matter. Grab visor off of head. Rear back like you throwing a hail mary. Slam visor onto ground. Stomp on it after staring at it for 1/2 a second. Then pick it up. Brush it off. Put back on head. Any questions?
So Bro, you didn’t get that comedian gig you were looking for did you?
Apparently not!
Two of my favorite coaches… Spurrier and Meyer. Best of Luck to Coach Meyer. I will be watching Jacksonville now. I think Spurrier would have won big at Washington if the owner would have stayed out of personal decisions. Go Gators! Go Jags! Thanks Coach Meyer for our 2 National Titles! Georgia has not won a championship in 41 years… 1980?
UF’s last natty is 15 years ago. UF is irrelevant.
Last SEC championship was 15 years ago. Irrelevant.
Can the BIG DAWG read? No gator cares for your 2 cents.
Bahahahaha!!!! Next time you Gaturds post 1980 I’m posting “No SECC in 15 = Irrelevant”.
11 year not 41 like your doggies!
Actually it’s twelve years since UF’s last SECC but this year there is 0% chance of an SECC for UF. So let’s make it 13 and we’ll round up to the nearest half decade mark because 2022/23 not looking good either once Mullet leaves for the NFL. LMAO.
Spurrier was quoted saying “He’ll get his ass kicked in the NFL just like I did. He won’t be willing to put in the work. After 2 or 3 seasons of losing he’ll say he’s retiring for health reasons”.
Who was the last UGA coach to even sniff a HC job in the NFL? I’ll wait….
Richt was offered the Dolphins job before Saban took it. He wanted to stay at UGA.