Urban Meyer discusses why he took the Jaguars job, his first priority as Jacksonville coach
Once again, Urban Meyer has come out of retirement.
This time though, one of the best coaches to ever do it at the collegiate level will be attempting to tackle the game’s highest level, the NFL.
Meyer has officially landed in Jacksonville and for the first time since the franchise advanced to the 2018 AFC Championship Game, the Jaguars have some buzz around the program.
In a recent interview with the team’s media, Meyer shared his first priority as he embarks on his first NFL head coaching job.
“It starts with hiring an elite staff. I’m going to spend so much time on that,” Meyer shared. “We’ve had a lot of success in college and if there’s one strength I have, it’s surrounding myself with really, really great coaches and really great players and we’ll work on that next. Jacksonville deserves an incredible staff, we’re going to do our best to do that.”
After flirting with so many jobs in recent seasons, Meyer has long been rumored to be a candidate at USC and most recently Texas made a run at him to replace Tom Herman, why was this the right job for Meyer?
“Yeah, it had to be perfect. It was something that, this was not a knee jerk reaction, this is something that I’ve been studying for a long time,” Meyer added. “Not necessarily this job, but just the NFL, in particular, and then this one, the opportunity presented itself. Whether it’s watching film, whether it’s studying a roster, whether it’s understanding the salary cap, what we have available to us, the number one pick.
“The fact that I love Jacksonville, I spend a lot of time in Florida, my family loves it here. And then, quite honestly, Duvall and 904 deserve a chance to go win. I’m gonna hire people that want to help the Jaguars win.”
You can check out the full interview with Meyer here, courtesy of the Jaguars.
Until winning becomes really difficult in a league with designed parity, where you can’t recruit the best players or hide their wrong-doings and positive drug tests from the NFL, so in the middle of your fourth season you develop an undisclosed and vague medical issue that means you must “retire” once again.
No bigger immoral con man in the history of all football, now.
Nice to know but the real question is when will you realize you chose a stupid name alluding to a dumb prediction that never came true?
Such a weird flex from a guy who’s just returning from
his shame hiatus.
Whatever bro but you do realize your chosen name is stupid and exposes your obsession
Just saying this website is a cancer with the ads
Haha yes! On my CPU at the end of the article, right before the comments there is always an earwax ad. It’s so gross! I didn’t know how the ads work, but glad somebody shares my pain!
Ha, my end of story ad is for wild Alaskan Salmon. Guess they figure i can hear well enough, but i need to eat a more healthy diet
Try ghostery. it’s an ad blocker.
While I don’t have a crystal ball, my future-predicting abilities seem to be telling me that after a run of success, Meyer will find himself beset with health issues that force him to “retire” from Jacksonville.
No he won’t have health issues. He’ll want to spend more time with his family.
Good call
As much as he tormented my Dawgs, I’m happy he left the Gators and I’d be surprised if he doesn’t succeed in Jacksonville immediately. With Trevor Lawrence who I believe is ready to play from day one but not carry the team and with a ton of cap space for free agents, it would not shock me to see a 9 win team in 2021 and knocking on the wild card door. He has much more control than most any other first time NFL coach in that he gets to choose the GM and other executive personnel from scouting to everything else. The owner said he wants his team to be coach-centric and from watching the press conference, Meyer is in control.
The Jags situation is a perfect fit for Meyer.