(12-07-2021, 07:51 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(12-07-2021, 07:13 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Agreed, but how can Khan justify keeping Meyer after basically giving him free reign to get the staff and players he wanted, if we just end up picking #1 for the second year in a row?

I don't know, but he'll try to manage.

Right now, UM is looking like the worst ever Jaguars coaching hire.  Confidence in this coach seems at an all time low.  I've never seen more antipathy towards a Jaguars coach than what we are seeing with UM.  But the team looks flat out bad on way too many levels to say otherwise.

I was opposed to the UM hire then, and it makes no sense now.

If Khan thought that TL was the key to keeping the Jaguars in Jacksonville, why not hire a coach that has a proven history of working with successful NFL QBs?  Even if the guy failed as a coach overall, if TL is developed properly, it would have long term benefits for the team that would transcend the bad coach.

I would have hired Pederson as soon as the Eagles fired him.

Totally agree. I liked Pederson as well, although admittedly, I was pounding the table for Brian Daboll. Either would've been a massive upgrade over the debacle we have now. Like you, I hated the Urban Meyer hiring. Some people on the board were giving him the benefit of the doubt, because he won everywhere he went in college. College football is a much, much different animal than the NFL is, in terms of coaching though. 75% of college coaching is recruiting, especially at schools like Ohio State and Florida where you're almost certainly gonna get some of the best players in the country. In the NFL, you're dealing with grown men who care about two things, winning and money. He came to a franchise with a long, long history of losing. You can't recruit your way into a winning record in the NFL. You have to put in the work, find the best players for your team via the draft, convince the best possible FA's to come here and hire competent coaches to put the best players on the field, coach them up and make effective game plans. That's the only way to win in the NFL. 

Meyer came in totally clueless and he remains clueless to this day. He admittedly had no clue how free agency worked. He drafted a ton of players who have yet to see any significant playing time despite being behind talentless starters leftover from a 1-15 team. He hired and kept some of the worst coaches in the NFL and in spite of being the "boss" of this operation, when major blunders are made he is quick to place blame on others. We went from being a very bad team into a complete clown show. He should be completely embarrassed and humiliated by the useless product he puts out on the field every week, but since he has no integrity, he's gonna keep riding this "cash cow" until it drops dead.

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