How much damage can the wrong hire do to a professional football team? The Jacksonville Jaguars, one of the Indianapolis Colts' most menacing rivals, are hoping that the hangover left by the disastrous, short-lived tenure of Urban Meyer as head coach is finally a thing of the past.
It was 2021, and despite having the worst team in the league, things were actually looking up down in Florida. New GM Trent Baalke was gifted with a generational quarterback in Trevor Lawrence. Job one – and jobs two and three – were to make sure Lawrence’s transition to the NFL went as smoothly as possible.