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Christian D'Andrea

Doug Pederson drew praise from a Jaguars player for simply not being Urban Meyer

Urban Meyer was a disaster as Jacksonville Jaguars head coach.

He alienated players. He brought college philosophies to a professional locker room filled with grown men who couldn’t relate. He blamed his failures on assistant coaches, abandoned his team after losses (of which there were many) and generally encapsulated the Jaguars vibe that made an entire NFL franchise a running punchline for an NBC show about the afterlife.

Meyer went 2-11 in his lone season as a big league head coach and was fired after less than a year on the job. It was a buffoonish finish for a buffoonish man tasked with leading a franchise already fraught with awful leadership.

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