Urban Meyer once again finds himself under the gun. If starting your career 0-4 as an NFL coach wasn’t reason enough to have fans breathing down your neck, Meyer added fuel to the fire this weekend. The backlash is in response to a video that surfaced of Meyer letting a woman, who was not his wife, dance on him in a Columbus bar.
Is this why Urban Meyer is trending? 😳 pic.twitter.com/nFg8kUFVli
— 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐛 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬™️ (@ChiefSVP) October 3, 2021
This video has sparked conversation across social media. Since Monday morning, the keywords “Urban Meyer” have been mentioned approximately 165,000 times and reached 1.3 billion users. Not surprisingly, the conversation is being carried in large part by 18-35 year old males on social media. Another thing that should not come as a surprise is that 83.1% of the posts surrounding Meyer held negative sentiment.
The viral video seems to have ruined whatever relationship Meyer had left with his players. One player told Michael Silvers “He has zero credibility in that stadium. He had very little to begin with.” Silver posted a series of tweets that address how the locker room is viewing the situation.
THREAD 1) The Urban Meyer situation in Jacksonville has reached a crisis point, especially in the locker room. One player told me, 'He has zero credibility in that stadium. He had very little to begin with.'
— Michael Silver (@MikeSilver) October 5, 2021
One of the top trending hashtags surrounding Meyer was #PatMcAfeeShowLIVE . McAfee is a former NFL player who’s podcast has become one of the biggest hits amongst sports fans. McAfee addressed how he assumed players were treating the news in a NSFW segment on his podcast.
This is the difference between College & Pros.. Urban Meyer is walking into a room with GROWN ASS MEN & the guys in that room know everything#PatMcAfeeShowLIVE pic.twitter.com/viBnh3kcZk
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) October 5, 2021
If you are unfamiliar with Meyer’s coaching history, you may think this is a harsh reaction for one lapse in judgement, but that’s just the thing. This is not the first time Meyers has been in the news for the wrong reasons. While still coaching at Ohio State University, Meyer was placed on leave and later suspended after reports surfaced that Meyer knew of Zach Smith’s abusive relationship towards his wife in 2018. Smith was an assistant coach on Meyer’s staff.
His time with the Jaguars started off rough when he hired Chris Doyle, who had been dismissed by Iowa after being accused of making racist remarks towards players. Meyer doubled down and defended his decision to the media. Things have not gotten much better since then. Here is a list composed by @MySportsUpdate of all the things that have gone wrong since Meyers joined the team.
All this has happened since the #Jaguars hired Urban Meyer. pic.twitter.com/hURoUPAUlf
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) October 5, 2021
Some of the conversation surrounding Meyer was led by analysts calling for his job. Here Marcus Spears calls for Meyer to be fired.
“Shad Khan, you on the clock, bro. It's time for you to find another head coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars!”@mspears96 sounds off on Urban Meyer 😳 pic.twitter.com/A6YmTsssc1
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) October 4, 2021
A larger portion of the conversation was driven by quick-witted football fans who dashed to social media in order to make fun of the coach.
The jags front office when urban Meyer says he’s leaving the nfl after the 0-4 start to spend more time with his wife and family knowing he was with a college girl at a bar this weekend pic.twitter.com/rvBbLWsAbM
— jw (@jwmedia12) October 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/MySeanwo99/status/1444492663181426690
Urban Meyer apologizing to Jaguars players pic.twitter.com/ZJZCKwI19d
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) October 5, 2021
As the Jaguars continue to look like one of the NFL’s worst teams and Meyer now becoming a distraction off the field, his days as a head coach in the NFL may be over sooner rather than later.
Author: Jacob Luksik
