Urban Meyer opened up on his failed time in Jacksonville and raved about the NFL future of his one-time quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
“No desire,” he said. “And of course, I think I’d do some things differently [with the Jaguars]. I was excited to see because they have a lot of different players than when I was there. They did a really good job in free agency this year.”
Meyer said that he was finished coaching when NFL teams started contacting him about a job in the league. “I was done. I was retired. I had some health issues at Ohio State ... 55 [years old] was always my target [to stop coaching]. My family deserved that, we worked so hard for 38 years … I said I had some friends that unfortunately had some real serious health issues,” Meyer said. “I said, ‘I’m not doing this. I’m going to get out of the game. And I had it all planned out.”
That plan was to stay involved in television and enjoy family time. But the tug of coaching Lawrence and giving the NFL a try pulled Meyer into a situation that he clearly wasn’t prepared for. Owner Shad Khan hired Meyer to try and turn the Jaguars around after a 1-15 season in 2020. Khan had been fascinated with Meyer and finally coaxed him into coming out of retirement.
“… And then I got approached by a few teams and this team really appealed to me,” Meyer said on the podcast. “Trevor Lawrence, who might be a Hall of Famer some day, he’s that good. Obviously, it didn’t go well, but I had no plans on doing that at all. It just happened.”He talked to the NFL Network several days after his firingThe Jaguars went on to hire Doug Pederson and completed just the third worst-to-first turnaround since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970.
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