‘Urban Meyer Is Lying,’ ‘Stop Capping’ — Pro Bowl WR Calls Out Legendary Coach’s Hypocrisy for Claiming He’d Suspend Texas Star Colin Simmons
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Urban Meyer watched Colin Simmons pretend to urinate on the Neyland Stadium turf and decided the proper response would have been a suspension. T.J. Houshmandzadeh heard that and basically asked everyone to pull up Meyer’s own coaching résumé before handing him the discipline whistle.
The former Pro Bowl receiver unloaded on Meyer after the ex-Florida and Ohio State coach said he would have suspended Simmons for the celebration that drew a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in Texas’ 20-17 win over Tennessee.
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T.J. Houshmandzadeh Calls Urban Meyer a Liar
Meyer made his position pretty simple on his “The Triple Option” podcast. If he were still coaching, Simmons would have been sitting.
“If I’m the head coach and I see that kid do that, he’s out. I’m suspending him,” Meyer said.
Houshmandzadeh had absolutely no interest in buying the tough-love routine.
“Urban Meyer is lying his [expletive] off,” Houshmandzadeh said. “It’s like, stop the [expletive], bro.Stop capping.”
His argument was not that Simmons did nothing wrong. Houshmandzadeh repeatedly said the Texas star crossed the line, should be corrected, and should not do it again. What bothered him was Meyer acting as though a suspension would have been the obvious response.
“So now you woke?” Houshmandzadeh said. “You gonna suspend a guy now for doing that and they was doing way worse under your watch? Nah.”
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He pointed directly at Meyer’s Florida tenure, arguing that the coach had dealt with much more serious player-discipline issues without automatically shelving stars for multiple games.
That escalated quickly from “bad celebration” to putting an entire coaching era on trial.
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The irony is that Simmons played one of the best games of his Texas career before making sure everybody spent the next three days talking about an imaginary bathroom break.
He was credited with 5.5 sacks against Tennessee, setting a Texas single-game record and helping the No. 1 Longhorns escape Knoxville unbeaten. Then came the celebration, the flag, and a flood offan backlash.
Simmons apologized afterward and acknowledged he got caught up in the moment.
Football-wise, there is considerably less to argue about. PFN’s2027 EDGE rankings have him No. 1 at the position, and Saturday only strengthened the case that he is one of college football’s premier defenders.
He currently ranks third in PFN’s College Edge Impact Metric with a 95.7 grade.
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Houshmandzadeh agrees the gesture was wrong. His issue is the punishment and, more specifically, the messenger.
Meyer has previously acknowledged making disciplinary mistakes at Florida and giving second chances to players he later believed didn’t deserve them. That history is exactly why Houshmandzadeh was not interested in hearing him suddenly play college football’s strictest principal.
This article originally appeared on Pro Football Network.