Trevor Lawrence & Urban Meyer pairing makes us uncomfortable
Former Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence is about to be paired with former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer down in Jacksonville and we don’t know how to feel about it.
Reports surfaced Thursday that Meyer and the Jacksonville Jaguars were closing in on a deal that would bring him back into coaching following a period of two years in which he stepped away.
With Meyer back in the saddle, the Jaguars have many moves to make this offseason but perhaps the biggest remaining is selecting the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft.
The overarching consensus is that they’ll select Trevor Lawrence.
The truth of the matter, though, is that the pairing of Lawrence and Meyer makes us as Clemson football fans extremely uncomfortable in many ways.
Trevor Lawrence could benefit greatly or be decimated by Meyer
Meyer was a good coach at the collegiate level but everyone seems to forget many of his flaws, including the fact that he simply doesn’t know how to take losing. There have been reports of Meyer getting physically ill after losing a game and that’s one of the (many) reasons he had to step away.
Though he seems to be an elite coach, you never know how a collegiate coach is going to translate to the NFL. Steve Spurrier and Nick Saban are just a couple of quick examples if you’re wanting to know what I’m talking about.
The point being: Not only is pairing Meyer with Lawrence something that makes us uncomfortable because of his former allegiances and the character he’s shown previously, but there’s no guarantee that he’s anything close to successful at the next level, either.
Lawrence won’t have the benefit of a seasoned coach who has been around the league for a while. Instead, he’ll have to learn on the fly and begin to trust a coach who certainly will be vastly different from what he’s come to know in Dabo Swinney.
Say what you want to about the pairing- good, bad or ugly- but the best way we know how to describe it is ‘uncomfortable.’