“It’s a professional setting”: Jaguars OLB Josh Allen takes shots at former HC Urban Meyer for his lack of professionalism
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Josh Allen was vocal about Urban Meyer's disconnect from the Jaguars locker room
The Jacksonville Jaguars is a team riddled with numerous problems, the team’s culture has been bad since time immemorial, and last year may have been the worst in a long long time. The team bought in Urban Meyer, a successful college football coach with a winning record to help and turn the team’s fate around. Owner Shahid Khan thought that this move would help the team get better as Meyer carries a lot of experience with him, however, it turned out to be the worst move that he ever made.
Meyer came into the NFL riding high on his achievements in college football. But the NFL is completely different, your college achievements hold no value here and you are dealing with grown men with families and responsibilities as opposed to just boys in college. Meyer behaved the same way with the players in the NFL as he did in college, putting them down and assuming that they will be motivated and do well. The strategy that earned him success in college did the exact opposite in the NFL, his players did not respect him and they did not like the way he treated them either.
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Urban Meyer once kicked the Jacksonville Jaguars Kicker during practice:
The tipping point for the Jaguars owner came when reports of the coach kicking a kicker during the practice surfaced. In the NFL, doing something of that kind is likely to get you hit by the athlete. If there is no mutual respect, then no team can win games. It came as no surprise that Urban Meyer lost his job as the head coach and now it is up to Doug Pederson to build a good culture in Jacksonville.
The difference in the locker room already seems to be evident, OLB Josh Allen points out that after just a single training camp practice and an entire offseason with his new coach that it feels great to be playing for him. “It feels good to be a part of a professional locker room, not only in the locker room but also when you talk to the coaches. It’s a professional setting, you have to hone into the details. If you’re not listening to the details, it’s not getting onto you, it’s telling you what’s right and what’s wrong,” he speaks highly of his new coach and seems to be in a much more positive environment now.
“As guys, as grown men, we’ve got to understand that, and he puts it in a way we can understand it and grow. He’s not getting on us, he’s letting us know what’s real, and he’s talking to us like grown men. With that, nothing but respect. We want to grow, we want to be great, and plus, he has respect in his resume. We want to be an organization where we can get to that point someday. If we do things right and we listen, I feel like we can get to that point.” Josh Allen concludes.
Pederson has a decorated record of 42-37-1 in his last five seasons with the Eagles. He has a huge task ahead of him as he has to change a team that is considered to be at the bottom of the league every year into a contender. A new culture has been something the team has needed for a long time now and hopefully, Pederson is able to develop that.
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