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Mailbag: On Urban Meyer, Indy’s Playoff Chances and Chicago’s Next Coach

There’s a trap I’ve fallen into with some football coaches that, admittedly, I could do better to avoid in the future.

Urban Meyer is no one’s idiot. He’ll go down as the second-most successful college football coach of the last 30 or 40 years. He coached dozens of players who made it to the NFL, and I’ve even talked with him a bunch over the last couple of years about how hard he’s studied the pro game, working with the guys he coached at Florida and Ohio State to learn what works and what doesn’t at the sport’s highest level.