It has been a rough few days to be a Jaguars fan.
First, the team came up just shy of earning its first win of the season on national television as the Bengals came from behind to kick a game-winning field goal as time expired despite never leading in the game until that point.
Then, on Saturday night, video began to surface of head coach Urban Meyer at a bar in Ohio, where he stayed after the game instead of flying back to Jacksonville with the team. The videos showed an unknown woman dancing on Meyer, and subsequent video released showed Meyer attempting to touch the woman below the waist.
Suffice to say, the whole ordeal has proven to be a fairly big scandal for Meyer (who isn’t exactly known for avoiding controversy) and the team. Speaking to the media on Monday, Meyer said he apologized to the team, owner Shad Khan and general manager Trent Baalke, and his family.
On Tuesday, Khan put out a statement that indicates that while the team isn’t looking to make a change at the moment, Meyer could already be on thin ice.
But could that ground get a lot more solid with a win on Sunday? As the old adage says, winning solves everything, and a victory over the division rival Tennessee Titans would certainly make some progress in earning some buy-in from the fan base, who seems largely checked out at this point.
Tennessee is 2-2 and coming off a loss against a New York Jets team that looked like it may be struggling even more than the Jags heading into the game. Surely the division favorite won’t drop two in a row against teams likely to pick in the top five, right?
It’s certainly been a disappointing start to the year for the Titans, and they look more vulnerable at this point than some thought they would be. But would a win for Meyer be enough to take the pressure off him? Or would he still find himself in a tough spot even if the Jaguars manage to get to 1-4?
Let us know in the poll below.
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