Mike Vrabel Told Another Story Of How Awful A Person Urban Meyer Is Tonight On The Manningcast

Two things here. 

1- If Mike Vrabel isn't one of the top 5 guys in the NFL you'd like to grab beers with at a bar and just listen to him tell stories for a few hours, then you must be a Mike McCarthy or Matt Eberflus guy. 

2- Is it possible to get too many "Urban Meyer sucks" stories? I don't think it is. 

Granted, this isn't exactly checking the oil on a college coed at your bar/steakhouse in broad daylight in Columbus, (and then having your wife track down the girl and call her and threaten her to stay away from her husband, like she was the problem), but this is just another great glimpse into what a total shitbag Urban Meyer is. 

I get being bad with names. I am the absolute worst myself, But it's totally different to be bad with faces too. 

On top of that, we're talking about Mike fucking Vrabel. Buckeye linebacker legend- inducted into the OSU Hall of Fame and a member of the Buckeyes "All Century Team". Guy played 14 seasons in the NFL, and won three Super Bowls with the Pats. Oh, and then he went on to become linebackers coach, and then defensive line coach for Ohio State under head coach Urban Meyer. That was in 2011. 

So for Vrabel to run into Meyer in 2021 when he was coaching Tennessee and Meyer was coaching Jacksonville, for one hot second, and Meyer to ask him "do I know you?" might honestly take the cake in a long, long list of Urban Meyer gaffes. 

Let's run down some of the other classics - 

- His Florida Gators tenure, which The Sporting News reported included failed drug attests among team standouts, 30 arrests among players over Meyer's six years leading the program, and a "Circle of Trust" creating a divide between insiders and outsiders in the locker room that raised tensions from 2005 to 2010. Oh, and he recruited and spoke highly of  Aaron Hernandez and the Pouncey brothers

- His Ohio State tenure which included 9 of his players arrested.

- "retiring" from coaching for "health reasons" (aka to avoid NCAA sanctions)

- The Zach Smith abuse scandal

- the Chris Doyle bullying/racism scandal 

- forcing the Jags to upgrade their pro facilities so they became on par with his college's (OSU) and inking guaranteed deals for his assistants 

- the "Tim Tebow at tight-end" experiment

- Getting into blowout arguments with his staff during the preseason because they "wouldn't open up the playbook" 

Meyer complained that his assistant coaches were preventing him from running the Jags’ full game plan in their scrimmages. “Sometimes coaches [say], ‘We can’t show this, we can’t show that,’” Meyer said. “And I’m like ‘Why? Tell me why. Explain to me why.’” It’s a pretty easy explanation, Urban. These games didn’t count, and it would’ve been a major strategic disadvantage to reveal everything in your playbook during games that didn’t actually matter.

- During a staff meeting, told everybody that he was a "winner" and called his assistant coaches "losers" 

- nearly got in a fist fight with wide receiver Marvin Jones

- Didn't fly home with his team after week 4 ass-kicking in Cincinnati. Headed to Columbus to cheat on his wife in now infamous video instead. 

(Sidebar - one thing that didn't get talked about enough during Meyer getting torched for getting caught at that restaurant with that girl, instead of flying home with his team, was that he threw his rookie QB under the bus in his "apology", pointing out that Trevor Lawrence skipped a flight home to attend a friends bachelor party in Las Vegas. Such a dirtbag.)

- The James Robinson/Bernie Parmalee fiasco 

- The "Alabama" comment to Vic Fangio

- Getting fired just 13 games into his 1st season with Jacksonville. In what was called "the most toxic environment in pro sports", and what earned him the honor of being named the worst NFL head coach of all time. 

- the Josh Lambo report that said Meyer "kicked him during warmups" 

How this guy was hired by Fox and continues to get jobs is so mind bottling, even Rick Pitino doesn't get it. 

p.s. - Owen Wilson aka Kevin Rawley later appeared on tonight's Manningcast and dropped this gem 

p.p.s. - fun fact - Vrabel ended Meyer's NFL "career" handing him a 20-0 beatdown in Week 13 of the 2021 season after which he was fired. 

p.p.s. - if Mike Vrabel isn't head coach of the New England Patriots come next season I am going to have an aneuryism. How the Chicago Bears haven't picked up the phone and offered him whatever it takes to get him to come save that sinking ship is also beyond me.