Urban Meyer is sorry, merely now not about that.
Decrease than 24 hours after he changed into once fired as head coach of the Jaguars, a “devastated” Meyer broke his silence and apologized, though now not namely to the players and coaches he allegedly mistreated all over his temporary tenure with the crew.
“I merely teach sorry to Jacksonville,” Meyer told NFL.com in an interview carried out Friday and published Saturday. “I in actuality adore Jacksonville. It’s one of the most explanations I took the job. I aloof judge Shad a mountainous owner. It’s heartbreaking. I merely had a dream of it changing staunch into a destination spot with a brand original facility he agreed to manufacture and some day to stroll into that stadium the put it’s standing room most attention-grabbing. On yarn of I understand how unhealthy the folks of Jacksonville need it. So, I’m merely heartbroken that we weren’t in a job to fetch that. I aloof dangle it’s going to be carried out. It’s too correct of a spot.”
Meyer’s dismissal got right here after weeks of turmoil in Jacksonville. The closing straw regarded as if it may presumably perchance advance Wednesday when the Tampa Bay Conditions published an yarn from kicker Josh Lambo, who claimed that Meyer had kicked him all over a tradition in August. The Jaguars lastly launched they’d fired Meyer later on Thursday after center of the night.
Meyer denied that the incident with Lambo — a provide told NFL.com that two players who saw it described it differently to a Jaguars govt — along with the specifics of a reportedly heated trade he had with feeble receiver Marvin Jones.
“It changed into once adore, ‘Wait a minute, the put is that this coming from?’” Meyer talked about. “I’ve for sure made just a few mistakes but these weren’t merely.”
Meyer pinned his frustrations to your whole losing. The longtime successful college football coach went merely 2-11 in his short jump to the NFL.
“I express folks, losing eats away at your soul,” Meyer talked about. “If you start losing, it’s demanding on everybody. I believed at one point, when we won two out of three, there changed into once some momentum, mountainous vitality, the defense changed into once in actuality taking part in properly. We were operating the ball after which when that dried up on us, then we started turning the ball over. We had that bye week after which James Robinson gets damage.”
As a replace, the losing persisted, capped off by a loss to the Titans, after which Meyer had a cool handshake with Tennessee coach Mike Vrabel, his dilapidated Ohio Instruct assistant.
“That had nothing to fetch with him,” Meyer talked about. “That’s presumably one of my factors why I’ve belief just some of the things I talked about: I will’t rob losing. I strive to fair safe it, it merely eats away at my soul. And I dangle our players deserve better.”
The 57-year-veteran Meyer, who talked about his next occupation step changed into once “to be determined,” changed into once also requested whether or now not he believes his kind of teaching can work within the NFL.
“I judge college has changed quite a minute bit, too,” Meyer talked about. “Appropriate society has changed. You dangle how demanding you pushed. … I dangle there may be greatness in everybody and it’s the coach’s job to search out that greatness nevertheless you fetch that. Certain encouragement. Pushing them to be bigger, making them work extra worthy, figuring out flaws and attempting to repair [them]. I judge every little thing is so fragile merely now. And that involves teaching staffs.
“As soon as I bought into teaching, coaches weren’t making this extra or much less money and so they didn’t salvage agents. All the pieces is so fragile the put it primitive to be crew, crew, crew.”