{"id":50785,"date":"2021-10-04T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T21:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=50785"},"modified":"2021-10-04T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T21:19:43","slug":"urban-meyer-apologizes-for-actions-that-were-just-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/10\/urban-meyer-apologizes-for-actions-that-were-just-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Meyer apologizes for actions that were &#8220;just stupid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer has apologized to his family, his team and owner Shad Khan for \u201cbeing a distraction\u201d after a video surfaced over the weekend showing a young woman dancing close to his lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Urban-Meyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Urban-Meyer.jpg 775w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Urban-Meyer-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Urban-Meyer-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Meyer called a team meeting Monday and vowed to \u201cown it.&#8221; That&#8217;s the motto he uses daily and has plastered all around the Jaguars facility. He said his actions were &#8220;just stupid and so I explained everything that happened and owned it. Just stupid. Should not have myself in that kind of position.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always been so defensive of (my players),&#8221; Meyer said, according to ESPN.com. &#8220;I remember when Trevor (Lawrence) told me he was going to go to Vegas for his bachelor party. I was just like, &#8216;My gosh, man, be careful and surround yourself because I&#8217;ve seen this happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meyer added in remarks to his team that, &#8220;a coach should not be a distraction.&#8221; But, beyond this incident, Meyer has struggled on and off the field since taking over the Jaguars in the offseason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer has apologized to his family, his team and owner Shad Khan for \u201cbeing a distraction\u201d after a video surfaced over the weekend showing a young&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50786,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50785\/revisions\/50786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}