Tight end running a curl.....tight end running a curl...
Surely this cannot go unpunished. In a recent interview with The Orlando Sentinel’s Jeremy Fowler, Florida receiver Deonte Thompson took a serious dig at outgoing QB/Moyle Tim Tebow. In an article that was critical of Tebow’s inabilityto read through receiver progressions, Thompson stated, “With Brantley, everything’s with rhythm, time. You know what I mean, a real quarterback.” Ouch. Wonder how this will play with a head coach suffering postpartum depression?
UPDATE: Apparently it didn’t play well with postpartum Meyer, and it did not go unpunished. At UF spring practice yesterday, a livid Meyer went off on Orlando Sentinel reporter Jeremy Fowler, who was responsible for writing such a harshlyslightly critical article about Meyer’s favorite moyle. Meyer even went so far as to threaten physical violence if it had been his own son. The following is the transcript from the incident, with accompanying video:
Meyer: “You’ll be out of practice … you understand that? … if you do that again. I told you five years ago: Don’t mess with our players. Don’t do it. You did it. You do it one more time and the Orlando Sentinel’s not welcome here ever again. Is that clear? It’s yes or no.”
Fowler: “Urban, come on. Don’t make any threats. That’s fine. I’ll play by rules.”
Meyer: “What’s that?”
Fowler: “I’ll play by rules, but all I was doing is quoting the guy. I don’t think I was the only one.”
Meyer: “You’re a bad guy, man. You’re a bad guy.”
Fowler: “Thanks, Urban. I appreciate that.”
Meyer: “Maybe when you get a chance, call his family and all that and help them out with it. The kid has never been in trouble one time. He’s a great student, a great kid and you’re going to do that?
“If that was my son, we’d be going at it right now.”
Another example of how tightly wound Urban is and how he now thinks he is master of all Florida. I couldn’t find anyone who said the writer misquoted the kid. Since when does a writer risk being beaten and banned for publishing the truth?