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- Former Jaguars kicker Josh Lambo says caput autobus Urban Meyer kicked him at practise.
- After Lambo told him not to do it again, he says that Meyer responded, "I'm the head brawl coach, I'll kick y'all whenever the f--g I desire."
- Lambo said that Meyer later expressed frustration that the kicker had called him out in forepart of the team.
- Meyer was fired by the Jags after the allegation.
Quondam Jaguars kicker Josh Lambo said that Jacksonville head motorbus Urban Meyer kicked him during practice alee of a preseason game.
In a report from Rick Stroud at the Tampa Bay Times, Lambo said that Meyer kicked him, and then expressed frustration with Lambo later he told the coach to never exercise it once again.
Per the Tampa Bay Times:
"I'm in a lunge position. Left leg forward, right leg back," Lambo said. "... Urban Meyer, while I'm in that stretch position, comes upwards to me and says, 'Hey Dips--t, brand your f--male monarch kicks!' And kicks me in the leg."
"Information technology certainly wasn't as hard every bit he could've done it, but it certainly wasn't a love tap," Lambo said. "Truthfully, I'd register information technology as a five (out of x). Which in the workplace, I don't care if information technology'southward football or not, the boss tin't strike an employee. And for a 2d, I couldn't believe it actually happened. Pardon my vulgarity, I said, 'Don't y'all always f--male monarch boot me again!' And his response was, 'I'k the head ball motorcoach, I'll kick you lot whenever the f--k I want.'"
Meyer denied the incident as Lambo described it.
"Josh's characterization of me and this incident is completely inaccurate, and at that place are eyewitnesses to refute his account," Meyer said. "(General manager) Trent (Baalke) and I met with him on multiple occasions to encourage his performance, and this was never brought up. I was fully supportive of Josh during his fourth dimension with the team and wish him naught but the best."
Meyer's response to the incident, co-ordinate to Lambo, was also shocking.
Lambo said that he and Meyer later spoke with each other at the team's training facility where he brought up problems he had with Meyer'south coaching.
"[Meyer'southward] response was, 'OK, y'all don't like me doing this, OK. If you lot don't like me doing that, fine. But if you lot ever speak to me like that once again, you'll be out of here. You're the offset player I've ever let speak to me that style in my career, and if you practise information technology again, you lot're gone.'
"I said, 'I'm genuinely not trying to be sarcastic hither, Urban, only what did I say that offended y'all?'" Lambo told the Tampa Bay Times. "He said, 'When y'all responded to me out there on the practice field in front of everybody. If you take an issue and don't like me kick you lot, well and so you keep that to yourself and you wait until subsequently practice and after meetings and y'all come notice me in the office and tell me privately.'"
Lambo was cut by the Jaguars in Oct afterward kicker Matt Wright hit a game-winner for the Jaguars in Lambo'south stead.
Lambo played in just four games in 2020 due to injury and missed his first three field-goal attempts of the 2021 season with the Jaguars. He is currently a free agent.
As Mike Florio at ProFootballTalk noted, the incident should lead to an investigation in the virtually future, as the accusation relates to the league'due south the Personal Behave Policy, which prohibits "trigger-happy or threatening behavior toward another employee or a third party in whatever workplace setting."
On Twitter, many couldn't believe that Meyer'due south state of affairs in Jacksonville somehow connected to get worse, and raised questions about what Lambo's allegation potentially meant for the student-athletes that played nether Meyer in college.
—Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) December xv, 2021
—David Fucillo (@davidfucillo) Dec 16, 2021
—Jacob Schumacher (@Jacob_Schu_24) Dec 16, 2021
The story is just the latest in a serial of scandals that plagued Meyer'south outset year leading the Jaguars.
On Sat, Tom Pelissero of NFL.com published a blistering study breaking down the morale inside the Jaguars coaching staff. Things were not going well.
Per Pelissero:
"During a staff meeting, Meyer delivered a biting message that he's a winner and his banana coaches are losers, according to several people informed of the contents of the meeting, challenging each coach individually to explain when they've always won and forcing them to defend their résumés."
All of this would be bad enough on its own, but information technology's far from the only Meyer-related bit of bad news the team has suffered through this year.
A media storm broke out before in the season after a video went viral of Meyer dancing with a woman at a bar in Ohio. The footage was taken after an earlier game — a 24-21 to the Bengals back in Week 4 — when Meyer did not take the team plane home with his players. Instead, he stayed in Ohio every bit the squad flew back to Jacksonville.
Earlier in the week, before the Tampa Bay Times story was published on Wed, Jaguars owner Shad Khan said that he wouldn't make a quick decision to remove Meyer from the job.
"I want to practise the right thing for the squad. I want to practise the right thing for the city," Khan said, per ESPN. "That, to me, is style more important than just acting helter-skelter on emotion. I call up nosotros have a history of really looking at the facts and and then really doing the right thing."
But hours later on, simply after midnight on Thursday forenoon, Khan made the call, firing Meyer to officially end his disastrous tenure every bit the Jaguars head passenger vehicle.
Kahn was understandably unhappy with how things played out.
"After deliberation over many weeks and a thorough analysis of the entirety of Urban's tenure with our squad, I am bitterly disappointed to get in at the determination that an firsthand alter is imperative for everyone," Kahn said in a statement, per ESPN.
"I informed Urban of the change this evening. As I stated in Oct, regaining our trust and respect was essential. Regrettably, it did not happen."
Meyer's NFL career is over with a career tape of 2-xi.
Offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell is gear up to take over the reins every bit interim head coach.
Source: https://www.insider.com/urban-meyer-jaguars-kicker-josh-lambo-kick-2021-12
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