TWO WEEKS TO the day before Urban Meyer would be fired by the Jacksonville Jaguars -- less than one year into his fraught, scandal-ridden tenure -- he stands at a small black lectern deep in the bowels of TIAA Bank Field. He's here to offer up the latest reckoning for his inaugural season as NFL head coach, an experiment that is rapidly spiraling.
Meyer ruminates on the challenges of transitioning from college football to the NFL -- a leap that has claimed a litany of coaches before him. "It's about what I thought," he says. His team is 2-9.