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Post by mtbg on Dec 16, 2021 14:56:13 GMT
What a fascinatingly detestable individual. There are a hundred examples of things he did wrong, but just look at the James Robinson benching situation. Almost every NFL coach out there would say, even if they didn't make the decision, that ultimately they're the coach and they have to take responsibility for everything their team does. Not Urban. His response is only "don't ask me, it was the RB coach that did it. It wasn't me." Of course, it later came out that that was a lie. Deflecting blame, shirking responsibility, showing zero sense of accountability - this guy was supposed to be a mentor for college students? Without knowing anything about college ball, I'm guessing he won at that level based on his ability to recruit top talent and hire great assistants. No wonder his first instinct here was to blame his assistants for everything that went wrong at JAX; no wonder his antics didn't work with grown men and NFL athletes. It's a wonder Lawrence and other Jags players were able to comport themselves as well as they did. I think he won because he was a dictator. He was successful at smaller programs as well as brand names, so clearly he knows the game. It also helped that he clearly didn't care about character issues in his recruits. Plenty of great college coaches have failed at the pro level (Saban, Spurrier, etc.), but I don't remember any of them failing this spectacularly and with this much controversy in less than a full season. All of his decisions seem like they were made by a man who thinks he's living in the 1950s. "Hey, social media doesn't exist, I can party with this random chick at a bar and nobody will notice." "I can kick players (especially paid professional adults) and tell them I can do whatever I want because I'm the head ball coach, they'll just accept that and fall into line." It's all so inexplicably stupid. Interesting he referred to himself as the Head Ball Coach. Spurrier used to do the same. Hpw'd that work out?
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