DENVER (AP) — Victory formation is for losers. The Baltimore Ravens wished the dashing file.
So, John Harbaugh isn’t one bit sorry for no longer having Lamar Jackson salvage a knee to terminate out their rout at Denver.
Harbaugh outlined enthusiastically and unapologetically after Baltimore’s 23-7 victory Sunday that it become as soon as critical to his gamers, coaches and even the workforce’s followers to match the imprint of 43 consecutive 100-yard dashing games lisp by the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1974-77.
Harbaugh reacted with dread Monday when he learned that Broncos coach Vic Fangio noticed his dedication as classless and hazardous and when compared it to bull excrement.
“Thirty-seven years in pro ball, I’ve never viewed anything love that,” Fangio acknowledged, “but it with out a doubt become as soon as to be expected and we expected it.”
“I belief we had been on just accurate phrases,” retorted Harbaugh, who had Fangio on his first group 14 years within the past. “We had a nice chat before the game. Identified each and each other for a in point of fact very long time.
“Nevertheless I promise you I’m no longer going to supply that insult one 2nd’s belief. What’s meaningful to us may per chance presumably per chance additionally no longer be meaningful to them. Their concerns are undoubtedly no longer our concerns.”
City Meyer? Now, he couldn’t explain regret ample for his most modern misstep in what’s change into the bumpiest jump to the NFL ever attempted by a college teaching huge.
The Jacksonville Jaguars coach apologized to his family, workforce owner Shad Khan and his gamers for actions over the weekend that he called “just accurate tiresome.”
After Jacksonville blew a substantial lead in a 24-21 loss at Cincinnati on Thursday evening, Meyer didn’t flit assist alongside with his workforce on its constitution plane, an unparalleled breach of teaching protocol, especially for a workforce that’s 0-4 and has lost 19 consecutive games.
The three-time collegiate nationwide championship-a success coach acknowledged he remained in his dwelling lisp of Ohio to search his grandkids and that they all went to dinner Friday evening at his restaurant/bar in Columbus.
A video that surfaced Saturday evening wasn’t one in all family fun, on the opposite hand. It confirmed a young girl rubbing up in opposition to Meyer as he sat on a bar stool. He outlined she become as soon as attempting to entice him on the dance flooring. Yet any other video appears to showcase Meyer touching the girl’s buttocks.
Meyer called a workforce meeting Monday and vowed to “possess it,” the college-love motto he makes exercise of day after day and has plastered all around the Jaguars facility.
“I just accurate apologized to the workforce and group for being a distraction,” Meyer advised journalists in a while. “Apt tiresome and so I outlined the whole lot that came about and owned it. Apt tiresome. Wouldn’t accept as true with save myself in that extra or less save.”
Since procuring and selling his microphone for a headset in January to rejuvenate a floundering franchise and its fanbase, Meyer has as an different spearheaded a true tear of embarrassments.
Those consist of the botched hiring of strength coach Chris Doyle despite accusations of racist habits. The Jaguars had to let him drag a day later thanks to a pending lawsuit.
He also invited 2007 Heisman Trophy-a success quarterback Tim Tebow to coaching camp as a decent waste in a transfer that reeked of a publicity stunt and ended badly when Tebow looked lost within the preseason opener in opposition to Cleveland.
The Jaguars had been fined $200,000 and Meyer docked $100,000 on July 1 for violating league guidelines concerning contact for the length of offseason drills. The NFL Gamers Affiliation launched an investigation this summer after Meyer acknowledged vaccination role factored into the workforce’s roster choices.
Per chance most egregious of all become as soon as having top draft exhaust and generational expertise Trevor Lawrence split precious first-workforce repetitions in coaching camp with a quarterback now no longer on the roster.
Add all of it up and Meyer’s transition to the professionals is already messier than those of Chip Kelly, Prick Saban, Bobby Petrino, Steve Spurrier, Butch Davis, Greg Schiano and Lou Holtz blended.
“A coach must peaceable no longer be a distraction,” Meyer acknowledged.
Fangio’s umbrage of Harbaugh’s call is definite to change into portion of the fable when the Ravens host the Indianapolis Colts subsequent Monday evening with the possibility to atomize the dashing file.
The Broncos (3-1) had restricted the Ravens to 97 yards on the flooring Sunday, collectively with just accurate 23 by Jackson, his lowest whole in nearly a yr, when Baltimore cornerback Anthony Averett intercepted a Drew Lock pass within the waste zone with 3 seconds left.
As a replacement of lining up in victory formation, Jackson took the shotgun snap and swept left for five yards.
“We didn’t query to get dangle of the ball assist, but I’d already decided, we decided, that if we purchased the ball assist, we had been going to salvage a save a query to at to get dangle of the yards, and we purchased it assist with 3 seconds left,” Harbaugh acknowledged.
And he returned Fangio’s dig that “we expected that from them,” with one in all his possess, criticizing the Broncos for attempting to rating a meaningless TD within the closing seconds.
“I don’t know that there’s a 16-point landing that’s going to be imaginable dazzling there, so as that didn’t accept as true with anything to originate with a success the game,” he acknowledged.
Fangio become as soon as so furious that he threw his headphones off in disgust after that closing play. What that shows is he become as soon as just accurate as centered on the Ravens’ urge at the file as Harbaugh become as soon as, and presumably he felt that snapping the saunter would back as a consolation prize for Denver’s protection.
Amid this tit-for-tat between Harbaugh and Fangio, let’s take note one thing: The Ravens are lucky Jackson wasn’t blasted on that closing urge by a Denver defender furious that Baltimore rookie Odafe Oweh’s unflagged hit to the chin knocked Broncos QB Teddy Bridgewater from the game with a concussion.
If anyone had taken a exhausting shot at his quarterback for rubbing it of their faces, that strive and defend the dashing saunter alive may per chance presumably per chance accept as true with left Harbaugh joining Meyer in apologizing to his gamers, followers and workforce owner for a regretful dedication.
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