I want to raise one point
within the last week or so. Urban Meyer was on a podcast
with Dan dockage
and
and I'm going to give the urban the benefit of the doubt that
he's telling the truth when he says these things. I don't know
why you would be lying about the things. He said,
the picture that he painted of himself his mindset his
attitude as it relates to the NFL.
Was of someone who was completely clueless as to
the inherent differences between college football and
professional football.
And when you hear him whine about
practice differences, in this difference in that,
it's almost as if he had no idea
what he was getting himself into
which matches the demeanor. Frankly, that we saw from him
on the sidelines in the preseason. What did I get
myself into
and Peter? Raise it. Not because it's a stunning lack of
self-awareness or curiosity by Urban Meyer to realize that
this is a very different sort of football.
And how do you not know that?
How do you not know that? If you're Urban Meyer,
what troubles me and this gets back to a theme
that has kind of taken over the
week, and I'm sorry. It's
anti oligarch week here on pfft.
How how does shod con?
What what processes are they using? When they
The coaches that shot Khan did not ask questions that would
flush out, the kind of answers that would get him to say.
Holy crap. This guy
doesn't know anything about the NFL and how the NFL works.
Because I think that's full of crap.
I just do and Mike nothing.
I don't really know where Ben Meir of talked to him a few
times and you know, I had fine relationship with them
professional.
You know, he knew
what do you think he was doing talking to Jimmy Johnson, you
know, a hundred times before he took this job,
he knew. And and to say he doesn't know is ridiculous. And
it's
You know, he should just say
he should just take the loss.
You just take the loss.
He should just say, Hey, listen,
I made a mistake and not flying back with my team
from Cincinnati to Jacksonville
and instead going and then trying to, I gave two
explanations for what happened at the bar in Columbus. The
first of which was wholly innocent
and the second of which was more real.
Well, how do you really trust a guy
like that? You just I mean,
he just and again, at that time. I didn't know
the the, the sort of the depths and the the entirety
of the problems that he had in Jacksonville, but honestly,
I think he is rewriting history.
I think he had to know
what, how practice was
look,
Mike, everybody who takes job in the NFL knows that you don't
have an offseason like
You had 20 years ago.
It's a very limited offseason. So you got to make every minute
count and you got to make every minute of practice time count
during the season
and for him to be moaning about all in college. I could
practice it, whatever he said, 10 or 12 times. And in
the pros, biggest play of the game and we might only practice it
twice.
That's life. You got to rely on your players. And you know,
what, if you think it's going to be the biggest, play your
game then practice it ten times. Times during the
week.
You know, it's funny. I mean if you're relying on Jimmie
Johnson, you're getting a different perspective on how
the NFL works because he hasn't coached for roughly 20 years.
So he hasn't had any thrive in this era of more limited reps,
but I'll flip it around then
assuming that he was lying about that. This is just his
way of coming up with a clunky justification for why it didn't
work and it was just he's so arrogant that he thinks he can
bend
reality in his favor just by showing up and saying hey, I'm
Urban Meyer. This is going to work just because I'm Urban
Meyer.
I kind of like to think that Shahid Khan would have picked
up on that Vibe, alternatively,
when well, but you know what Mike my he had to have him he
decided he had to have him. This gets back to
the fundamental problems. He decided he had to have him and
all that other stuff which is details.
Yes, exactly. And Mike the one other point that you're making
right now that I think is absolutely correct. Shahid Khan
when he talked to Urban Meyer was not an interview mode. He
was in recruiting mode,
you know, he was trying to convince Urban. Here's why you
should take this job. You'll be great at it. It was not. Hey,
let's sit down and let's talk
every granular point
of what being a coach in the NFL is like these days.
I doubt they ever had that this discussion.
And so, to me, I think there's very much there, should be
a chapter 4 owners, presidents GM's
on interviewing,
famous candidates.
Like I love the fact
that Jim Harbaugh thought he was going to Minnesota
to get the job, you know, to be handed the crown, and they said
whoa. Whoa, whoa. Whoa. Whoa, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
We need to see everything about how you will handle this job,
and we need to go through an entire day
of the same. Same exercises. We went through with Patrick
Graham yesterday,
you know, the mock press conference. The this
and the fact that and again,
I don't know what happened. You don't know what happened,
whether Jim Harbaugh thought he was beneath that
or he was beyond that. I don't know. But that right there
tells you something.
If he's going to be a perfect guy for this organization.
They can't have an imperious
coach. Who's not going to. Listen to the new. Or manager
or to team hierarchy? They need to have a team
and again as I say,
I don't know what happened.
But the fact that Jim Harbaugh thought he was flying to
Minnesota to be,
you know to be handed the crown.
I think leads you to believe that
he felt something that other teeth at the team didn't feel
and so they're probably better off not having hired him.
You know, and I think that what you're saying has a lot of
truth to it Harbaugh
believe that the job was his, that he didn't have to sell
them
and he was already sold on them. He just assumed they were
sold on him because I guess from his perspective. Hey, if
I want them, they have to want me and it all blew up and now
Kevin O'Connell
in 10 days, barring something unforeseen. It's not done,
until it's done in 10 days. We expect O'Connell because
Watch the Vikings, okay.