What the national media is saying about Urban Meyer

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fans are frustrated with the Jaguars. That’s not antithetic for the city.

Even the astir affirmative diehard Jaguars fans similar David Mendenhall can’t assistance but beryllium blunt astir their disappointment with the 0-2 commencement this season.

“The fans were inactive with the team, past toward the end, it was, like, everybody was getting frustrated, the aforesaid happening implicit and over, the aforesaid penalties, 2 steps forward, 3 steps back,” Mendenhall said.

But, successful summation to frustrated fans, determination are seemingly much and much nationalist media reports putting Meyer successful the spotlight.

On Monday, Meyer did thing he’s not accustomed to: facing the media for a 2nd consecutive week aft a loss.

“A batch of guys were present past year. You commencement losing those games, and this year, you commencement losing games, and I conscionable privation them to instrumentality unneurotic due to the fact that we’re gonna interruption this rock,” Meyer said. “We volition interruption this rock, and erstwhile we do, I privation them bask it.”

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News4Jax sports newsman and anchor Jamal St. Cyr said that frankly, determination are a batch of shot radical who are jealous of Meyer, who won 2 nationalist championships with Florida and different with Ohio State, for his past success.

“When you triumph games, you thin to marque a batch of enemies,” St. Cyr said. “People similar to spot you lose.”

Then, St. Cyr said, determination are Gators and Buckeyes fans who weren’t blessed erstwhile helium abruptly near their schools for wellness reasons.

“I deliberation this volition instrumentality with him for a while,” helium said. “I deliberation this is thing that was determination earlier helium joined the NFL, and it’s going to instrumentality a portion earlier it wears off.”

One of the crippled announcers, Jay Feely with CBS Sports, had this to accidental aft Sunday’s game:

“There’s a batch of vitriol retired determination for him, and I deliberation a batch of it is unfair and unjust. He’s trying to found himself retired determination arsenic a rookie manager successful the NFL.”

The disapproval of Meyer and speculation person continued nationally successful the press. There’s an opinion portion from USA Today with the headline, “Don’t consciousness atrocious for Jags’ Urban Meyer. This is what helium wanted.”

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Then there’s an article from 247Sports, citing aggregate unnamed sources, that questions Meyer’s semipermanent commitment. The header is “Jaguars manager could beryllium ‘one and done’ successful NFL, per report.”

When News4Jax reached retired to the Jaguars for remark connected those nationalist reports, the enactment referred to the punctuation from Meyer connected Sept. 15 erstwhile helium said: “I’m present and committed to effort to physique this organization.”

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