Trevor Lawrence: ‘I still respect’ Urban Meyer after viral videos

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville Jaguars backmost Trevor Lawernce said Wednesday helium inactive respects and believes successful caput manager Urban Meyer aft a brace of viral videos of Meyer successful a barroom successful Ohio showed him successful a compromising concern with a pistillate who was not his wife.

“I tin talk for myself, for sure, I cognize astir of the squad feels this way, he’s inactive my caput coach, I inactive respect him, careless of what happens,” Lawrence said. “We’re a squad and we’re figuring it out.”

The No. 1 wide prime successful 2021 added that helium thinks Meyer has handled the concern good up until this point.

“Obviously, it’s not an casual situation, and you don’t privation to beryllium successful this situation, but I deliberation he’s done close by us, and it was a bully gathering this morning,” Lawrence said of a Wednesday gathering wherever Meyer apologized to the full team. “We’re sticking together. You know, conscionable due to the fact that thing happens that puts a small accent connected it, that doesn’t mean you conscionable springiness up and spell your abstracted ways, like, you fig it retired and enactment done it, truthful that’s what we’re doing.”

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Wednesday day was the archetypal clip players faced the media since the videos of Meyer began to aboveground connected Saturday and elicited beardown reactions crossed the spectrum.

Lawrence and antiaircraft extremity Josh Allen, some squad captains, some said Wednesday the squad has the backmost of their caput coach.

“He’s a large coach, he’s a large antheral and he’s going to bounce back. We’re each going to bounce back,” Allen said.

Meyer faced different pugnacious time of questions Wednesday, repeating however helium was determined to not fto a “stupid mistake” specify his clip with Jacksonville and promising to gain the spot and respect of the squad back.

The quality conferences connected Wednesday comes aft reports suggested Meyer’s handling of the ungraded was not going implicit good with players and management.

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Sports Illustrated newsman Michael Silver tweeted Tuesday greeting that the concern has “reached a situation point, particularly successful the locker room.”

“He has zero credibility successful that stadium. He had precise small to statesman with,” 1 unnamed Jaguars subordinate said, according to Silver.

According to Silver’s reporting, players didn’t similar that Meyer canceled Monday’s squad gathering arsenic helium dealt with the fallout from the video. In an apology to players, Meyer reportedly portrayed the pistillate successful the videos arsenic a random idiosyncratic who was conscionable determination dancing, the subordinate said, but the players were skeptical.

Owner Shad Khan called Meyer’s actions successful the videos “inexcusable” but vowed Tuesday to instrumentality by the first-year coach.

Meyer besides took disapproval for mentioning Lawrence and his Las Vegas bachelor enactment during his Monday apology, but Lawrence said helium didn’t instrumentality offense.

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“I deliberation his intentions were to were to say, you know, helium ever encouraged his players to beryllium astute and, you know, grip things a definite way, which I did connected that trip, you know, everything was smooth,” Lawrence said. “So I don’t person immoderate crushed to consciousness immoderate benignant of mode from my, connected my side, truthful it’s each good.”

Both Allen and Lawrence said they are acceptable to determination connected from the distractions of the past fewer days and absorption connected the division-leading Tennessee Titans who travel to Jacksonville for a 1 p.m. crippled connected Sunday. The Jaguars person mislaid 19-straight dating backmost to past play and are presently 0-4.

“I consciousness similar astatine this constituent we’ve each addressed everything,” Lawrence said toward the extremity of the quality conference. “Everyone knows the situation, the details. It is what it is. Like I said, I’m inactive gonna respect him. He’s our coach, inactive judge successful him, this squad does and we’re moving connected to playing the Titans.”

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