Jaguars coach Urban Meyer calls the NFLs legal tampering period awful addresses Gardner Minshews status

Urban Meyer will experience many firsts during his first year as an NFL head coach. Meyer -- who on Jan. 14 and is currently going through his first free agency -- made over two dozen transactions during the first several days of free agency, beginning with the league's two-day legal tampering period.Speaking of the tampering period, Meyer is not a fan of that period of free agency where agents speak on behalf of their players. Unlike college recruiting, when coaches oftentimes visit with prospects inside of their homes, NFL coaches are unable to speak Odell Beckham Jr Jersey to soon-to-be free agents during the tampering period. But despite the lack of direct communication, many deals are executed during this period before becoming official when the new league year begins. If teams wait until the start of free agency to begin serious negotiations, they are often left behind."Yeah, that was awful," Meyer said of the legal tampering period, . "I don't agree with it, but no one asked my opinion. I gue Aldrick Rosas Jersey s in the old days you could bring them in and meet them, have dinner with them, you find out the football intellect, find out their character. The thing you don't do , I found out, is call someone who has skin in the game because they're going to not quite -- I don't see honest as a very appropriate word . So we did a deep dive. Every guy that we signed, we did. ..."To answer your question, that was awful, and I don't believe it should be that way. Not when you're making organizational decisions. I'm not sure how that rule came about, but to me that's not good busine s." Meyer's dislike of the legal tampering period did not appear to slow him and the down. Over Eli Manning Jersey the past week, the Jaguars signed a slew of players that include running back (who played for Meyer at Ohio State), offensive guard , receivers , and , cornerback , safety , cornerback , and tight ends and .Meyer is especially pleased with the work the Jaguars did on the defensive line. There, Jacksonville was able to sign , , , and ."On defense, the No. 1 need to me is always going to be to build your defensive front," . "In college, I expected it to be the top-five in America. In the NFL, I told our staff I expect it to be in the top fourth in the league. We felt it wasn't, there were some good pieces in place, we attacked it, and we got four defensive linemen. So that was the place we built, and I believe we' Rhett Ellison Jersey re going to be in the top-fourth in the league on the defensive line." Meyer said he liked "everything" about Brown, who inked a two-year deal with the Jaguars after executing a deal with the . Brown, a two-time Super Bowl winner with the before spending the last two seasons with the Saints, played for Jaguars a sistant coach Charlie Strong in college when Strong was the head coach at Texas."I liked the fact that he's a family man," Meyer said of Brown. "He's just a high, high character guy. When you see his size, 320 pounds , his bend, his athleticism. He's been well-coached already at New Orleans. I'm not supposed to have favorites yet, but he's one of my favorites. I'm looking forward to meeting him"Meyer said that the Jaguars are not currently planning to trade quarterback . Meyer said that he and Minshew spoke at length on Thursday for the first time, and those talks will continue over the next several weeks. "There's a lot of anticipation about the first pick, but there has been no decisions made," Meyer New York Giants Jersey said. "Gardner has done a lot of good things in Jacksonville."
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