(03-23-2022, 08:23 AM)jj82284 Wrote:

(03-23-2022, 06:12 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I don't know if Urban Meyer pees sitting down or not, but he was obviously completely unqualified to be an NFL head coach.  And anyone who cannot see that is just blind.

Ironically, I'm about 60% in agreement with you.  I would not have hired Urban Meyer as a head coach.  My point is, my opposition to him being an NFL Head coach is based on the fact that His in game management was always suspect 2 Florida.  I Can remember him burning through Times out like they were candy in an SEC championship game.  I think that he is a good offensive mind, but his macro GAME THEORY was below average.  He also had too great a propensity to go with empty formations on long down and distance without elite tackles.  One Game in particular Tim Tebow had to ride in an ambulance because of that B.S.  Those are legit criticisms.  That's got nothing to do with this, "Oh he didn't want to braid my hair."  Crap that these players are talking about.  

Moreover, when you look at his history @ Florida he was criticized for his Machiavellian approach to being a players coach.  Gang bangers, mass murderers, criminals etc.  No worries, as long as you perform on the field.  There are articles that he and his staff were almost afraid of Percy Harvin.  What's the difference between those players and the kids he was dealing with last year?  Those kids were winning!  So that brings me back to the fact that when you're performing on the Field, Urban Meyer can be your best cheerleader, when you're not performing on the field I'm sure he was a nightmare to deal with.   And I wouldn't respect any Coach who wasn't!

The one thing that gave me hope about Urban Meyer as a coach was the dimension of human confrontation.  Throw out the score, down, distance, formations, tendencies etc.  He had a Putinesque ability to prepare a group of 50 young men to be able to stand belly button to belly button against any opponent.  You may win, you may lose, but Urban Meyer teams were never accused of being soft, quitting, or giving up.  That's a wholly antithetical worldview to the culture that permeated the locker room for the last 4 years before the man returned.  It takes Michael Irvin to tell the story of what it was like to transform the culture of the Dallas Cowboys when Jimmy Johnson Came to town.