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Oculus Spirit [90820]
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Poor TL16! ??
Dec 14, 2021, 11:45 AM
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What’s he gonna do?
Urb is gonna ruin Trevor’s great reputation of being a Natty winning college football player, from Clemson at that!
Wait..Urb is a 2-time College Natty winning HC.
Maybe all those trophies mean O in the pros!
Oh..last week’s shut-out 1st one for JAX in 12 years!!!
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WSJournal pic & article attached ~>
Dec 14, 2021, 11:47 AM
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Re: WSJournal pic & article attached ~>
Dec 14, 2021, 11:55 AM
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Very damning article on Urban. Never liked him but had no idea what a con man he is.
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Re: WSJournal pic & article attached ~>
Dec 14, 2021, 12:14 PM
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I’ll never forget Meyer’s body language and facial expressions after the playoff shutout in AZ. He was on the big screen waiting for his post game press conference to start while the Tigers were celebrating on the field and getting their trophy. He must have been on that screen for close to 5 minutes and he looked like he’d just been beaten (maybe because he had!). To him that 5 minutes was probably an eternity. The guy just looked miserable. And we were sitting in the stands loving every minute of it! It was almost as much fun as watching the trophy presentation.
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Where is this online that isn't pay ? Good stuff - where
Dec 14, 2021, 12:23 PM
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it can be read.
Thanks for posting LbB ! ! !
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Thanks for the try. I get sign-up for $8 a month - prob
Dec 14, 2021, 12:39 PM
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because I've already read the 3 articles per lifetime that are free ? ?
Who knows.
Thanks, though.
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Re: Thanks for the try. I get sign-up for $8 a month - prob
Dec 14, 2021, 12:48 PM
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You can read most of it in the pic LBB posted. Just enlarge the pic.
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Re: Thanks for the try. I get sign-up for $8 a month - prob
Dec 14, 2021, 12:48 PM
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Does anyone care about the sullen travails of a 2-11 professional football team?
Apparently, if the team is coached by Urban Meyer.
After 13 games, Meyer’s Jacksonville Jaguars rest at that gloomy mark—not the NFL’s most pitiful, but the most pitiful which isn’t the glumly palindromic 1-11-1 Detroit Lions.
On Sunday, the sad cats of northeast Florida fell 20-0 to the Tennessee Titans. They rushed for 8 yards. They threw four interceptions. They punted. They punted some more. It was the club’s fifth loss in a row, and the first time the Jaguars were shut out in more than 12 years.
If you watched it, my condolences to your eyeballs. And your television.
Mid-December misery is not new for the Jaguars, who finished a dismal 1-15 last season, leading to yet another coaching change and reboot.
For the Jags, 2-11 is a comfy pair of slippers. According to STATS research, this is the fifth time in 27 seasons that the once-precocious 1995 expansion club has started a season 2-11 or worse.
That’s right. The Jaguars are the New England Patriots of starting 2-11.
It is Meyer who elevates this to a national saga. Last offseason, the highly-decorated former coach at Ohio State and Florida finally agreed to test his mettle on Sundays, after many years of saying no.
One wonders if he wishes he’d said no again.
Meyer looks as if he wants to be anywhere else but an NFL gridiron. He carries himself like a kid being forced to wear a collared shirt to a wedding. If there was an award for desultory body language, he would win it in a landslide.
After Sunday’s loss, a dead-eyed Meyer could barely manage a handshake with Tennessee coach Mike Vrabel, a former assistant at Ohio State. He held the bearing of a man who’d come home to a flooded basement.
“Losing sucks,” Meyer told reporters later. “It eats away at your soul.”
He’s not lost in bundles like this before, so the vultures are circling. Over the weekend, the NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero published a story which reported a wave of dysfunction inside Meyer’s team, including tension between the coach and his players and assistants.
Meyer denied the specifics of the NFL Network report, but acknowledged he was demanding of his coaching personnel.
“I have high expectations,” he said.
Expectations are why this messy Jags season is such an existential drama. Meyer, who won national titles in Gainesville and Columbus, was supposed to give Jacksonville a classy institutional reset. He had the luxury of a No. 1 pick, which he used to select the Clemson star Trevor Lawrence, giving the Jags the NFL’s most desirable asset: a young franchise QB.
Life was looking up.
Then came the season. The Jaguars lost their first five games. After the fourth loss, to Cincinnati, Meyer skipped a team flight home and got caught on camera amid antics at his restaurant in Columbus.
On the index of NFL outrages, this was barely a parking ticket, but it led to a public scolding from Jaguars owner Shad Khan—“He must regain our trust and respect”—and a chastened apology from Meyer.
Is there public Schadenfreude at play here? Absolutely. Meyer’s college juggernauts made a lot of college football fans miserable. The travails in Jacksonville may not be karmic payback, but they feel that way.
The college dynamo undone by the NFL is an old, irresistible story. The league proved too turbulent for name brand hires like Steve Spurrier, Chip Kelly, Bobby Petrino and even Nick Saban, who escaped to Alabama after a 15-17 mark in two seasons with the Miami Dolphins.
The transition is not easy. Advantages like recruiting and padded schedules are nullified. The superpowers and personality cults that work at the collegiate level get Kryptonited in the NFL. Pros aren’t as impressed by the rah-rah stuff that gets players jazzed to play, you know, Purdue.
Meyer wasn’t the rah-rah type, either. Even at his college peak, his approach was coldly clinical, not charismatic. He could look miserable on top, too.
The hope is that Meyer can turn it around like Jimmy Johnson once did in Dallas, correcting a Cowboys team that went 1-15 in his first season, and building it into a Super Bowl champion.
That will take time, and it’s unclear if Meyer is built for an NFL long haul. Each loss seems to add sag to his shoulders. Next week, the Jaguars will play Houston, another 2-11 club, in a desolate game that should take place untelevised, in a container ship somewhere off the coast. A loss in that one could be devastating.
Might Meyer flee back to Saturdays? He will always be an attractive candidate for a college looking for a big name.
He’s not a big name now. He’s Urban Meyer, just another coach of another 2-11 football team.
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Re: Poor TL16! ??
Dec 14, 2021, 11:57 AM
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I hate Urban, but he didn't make Trevor throw 4 picks.
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Re: Poor TL16! ??
Dec 14, 2021, 12:03 PM
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I saw the highlights of the game. Trevor was throwing quite well - until he threw the interceptions; some of them were just bad, inaccurate throws from my vantage point. The defense is actually playing fairly well.
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i can think of millions of reasons not to feel sorry for TL***
Dec 14, 2021, 12:15 PM
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Re: Poor TL16! ??
Dec 14, 2021, 2:09 PM
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One thing Trevor is not is poor.
An NFL with the right leadership team can turn it's fortunes in about 3 years. Jax never seems to have that leadership, but it can be fine.
TLaw has already beaten Peyton Manning's first-year win total. Hang in there..better days ahead.
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