Jaguars don’t have an precise plan, so go for patting followers on head with Urban Meyer rent

Lots of NFL groups develop into a joke 12 months after 12 months. Hell, I’m from Chicago and a fan of one of many larger ones. But just one has risen to the extent of a recurring one on a beloved, community sitcom. It’s essentially the most memorable factor concerning the Jacksonville Jaguars.

That’s in all probability what Shahid Khan was attempting to appropriate, and but by some means dove even deeper into, by hiring Urban Meyer as the subsequent head coach of the Jags. There’s nothing about Meyer that recommended he was the most effective — and even a suitable — candidate for an NFL head teaching job, aside from lots of people in northern Florida will bear in mind him from such episodes as “the highly successful coach of the Florida Gators.” This is lowest widespread denominator stuff, interesting to the basest of the bottom of the fanbase.

Quite merely, going from school to the professionals doesn’t work. Nick Saban couldn’t do it. Steve Spurrier couldn’t do it. Pete Carroll did, however he had been a coach within the professionals earlier than he went to USC. Meyer’s hardass bullshit that labored with kids just because that they had no selection isn’t going to fly with precise professionals with (official) paychecks who can ultimately transfer on to someplace else of their very own volition.

Secondly, the Jags are going to get Trevor Lawrence, essentially the most thrilling QB prospect in a while. But there’s nothing about Meyer’s monitor document that implies he has any concept methods to develop knowledgeable quarterback. The just one who’s had any success within the professionals after being underneath Meyer’s tutelage is Alex Smith, who was additionally a No. 1 total decide, but he didn’t discover it till he’d been on the job for years. The Jaguars don’t need to have to attend 5 years for Lawrence to be serviceable. Also, Lawrence may have the leverage to get Meyer fired, which Meyer has by no means needed to cope with earlier than, as all school coaches stay of their unchallenged fiefdoms.

Compounding that’s the buzz that Meyer will rent Scott Linehan as offensive coordinator, and Linehan has spent most of this century proving that it’s a minor miracle he can tie his footwear. Lawrence should be considering extra severely about pulling an Eli Manning by the hour.

About the one factor Meyer has confirmed he can do at a NFL stage is dismiss or cowl up home abuse underneath his watch.

While Meyer earned the fitting, due to his successes at Utah, Florida and Ohio State, he might throw open the doorways and welcome the nation’s finest recruits. He won’t have something resembling that expertise benefit in Jacksonville. This is usually the most important purpose school coaches cough up a hairball within the professionals.

This is a rent to seize headlines and placate no matter share of Jaguars followers yell “Chomp Chomp!” on Saturdays, which one can solely assume is most of them (whether or not that’s as a result of they’re Gators followers or simply are yelling that incoherently, I can’t inform you). It’s meant to be a splash, or make some type of assertion, however the one assertion it makes is that the Jaguars are being much more Jaguarsian than they have been with Blake flipping Bortles.

Anyway, I haven’t been optimistic sufficient on this as a lot as I’d like, so let’s attempt to repair that. More NHL groups kicked off their season final night time, and it was highlighted by King of Suck Balls Mountain Tony DeAngelo as soon as once more getting clowned, this time by the Islanders’ Mathew Barzal in a 4-0 Islanders ass-waxing of the Rangers.

You can really see DeAngelo’s mind go into vapor lock throughout this, which admittedly might be not that large of a activity, given its pea-size. He simply waves his stick in a imprecise vogue as Barzal is popping him into paste, like he’s attempting to recollect what it’s he does on this state of affairs, akin to a sophomore attempting to recollect his strains within the spring play. Not solely does DeAngelo suck at life, however he sucks at his job, which sort of makes his entire existence only a waste of everybody’s time, and but wonderful tv. Which is affirming. There is hope on the market, folks. You simply need to search for it.