ENGLEWOOD, Colo.(AP)-- Vic Fangio claims Urban Meyer told him training in the NFL is" like playing Alabama"weekly. Denver's instructor relayed his discussion from last weekend with the embattled Jacksonville Jaguars train to highlight a factor regarding parity in the NFL. Asked on Wednesday exactly how his Broncos(2-0 )would certainly handle being a 10 1/2-point favorite this weekend break against the Jets (0-2), Fangio said wagering lines "don't mean anything to us. You recognize, this is the NFL."
After that, he recounted his conversation with Meyer from the Broncos' 23-13 victory at Jacksonville (0-2).
"I don't understand Urban Meyer whatsoever truly, I fulfilled him recently, shook his hand before the game as well as after the game and also his comment to me was, 'Weekly it's like playing Alabama in the NFL,'" Fangio stated.
"Which's it. Everyone's capable of defeating everybody in this organization. "Meyer has lost back-to-back games for the very first time since 2013 when his Ohio State Buckeyes lost to Michigan State in the Big 10 title game and also to Clemson in the Orange Bowl.
The Jaguars were roasted on social media sites for a postgame tweet Sunday evening that included a message from Meyer complying with the franchise's 17th consecutive loss.
It checked out,"Hang in there with us. We're going to get better. The one thing about Jacksonville as well as the 904, go to rest understanding there's not mosting likely to be any group functioning more challenging to get this point turned."
Underneath those words was a photo of Jaguars players and also coaches arm-in-arm with No. 1 choice Trevor Lawrence in the center.
Meyer was conspicuously lacking from the picture.
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Denver Broncos head train Vic Fangio, left, as well as Jacksonville Jaguars head instructor Urban Meyer welcome each various other before an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton) Meyer has had a harsh change to the NFL complying with a 17-year run as a college head instructor who won 85 % of his video games and also 3 national championships. He mishandled the hiring of 2 coordinators (Chris Doyle, Brian Schneider ), welcomed Tim Tebow to training camp as a limited end, didn't upgrade a bad offending line in the offseason and had Lawrence split useful first-team repetitions in training camp with a quarterback no more on the roster.
The Jaguars looked useless in a 37-21 loss at Houston in Meyer's NFL coaching debut and also when Southern The golden state discharged train Clay Helton a day later,
conjecture swirled concerning Meyer's immediate future in Jacksonville. Meyer responded recently by saying"there's no opportunity "he takes the Trojans job and also he insisted he was in Jacksonville for the long haul.
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