“He must regain our trust and respect”

Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan severely berated coach Urban Meyer on Tuesday over Meyer’s viral social media posts at a Columbus, Ohio bar following the Jaguars’ loss to the Cincinnati Bengals .

One video in particular showed a woman dancing near Meyer’s knees. Meyer, who is married, said on Monday he apologized to the team for “being a distraction,” but it is clear from Khan’s statement that an apology was needed both above and below of the scale.

“I have raised this issue with Urban,” Khan said in a statement. “The details of our conversation will be kept confidential. What I will say is that his conduct last weekend was inexcusable. I appreciate Urban’s remorse, which I believe is sincere. Now he must regain our trust. and our respect. It will take a personal commitment. From Urban to everyone who supports, represents or plays for our team. I have no doubts that he will live up to it. “

It is highly unusual for an NFL owner to express this kind of public rebuke to his coach, and after a 0-4 start to the season, it is evident that Meyer’s status is already tenuous at best at best. barely a month after his freshman year in the NFL

Whatever one thinks of Meyer’s action or inaction, which was posted on social media, the optic of skipping the team’s return flight from a landslide defeat to the Bengals for self- saying spending time with his family is not good either. While the game took place on a Thursday night and was likely followed by some free time or at least a light schedule on Friday, one wonders how Meyer would feel about a player who jumps a team flight for a family time.

It all comes back, at the very least, to Meyer’s latest extension of lack of self-awareness that dates back to his college days.

In less than a calendar year in Jacksonville, he also hired a strength trainer at Chris Doyle who had been accused of racist behavior during his years at the University of Iowa, only to see Doyle resign days later at the middle of the critics. He was fined for breaking rules limiting contact in OTAs, led an NFLPA investigation after saying vaccination status impacted roster decisions and briefly transported the former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, who played for him in Florida, as a preseason tight end. The move was widely seen as a publicity stunt, and Tebow was released among the club’s first cuts.