RIP Ron Meyer

[Mack Herron]

Old timers will recall.

 

[QB12]

Paid some big dough at SMU back in the day.

 

[RobertWeathers]

The legend is it was Hannah going to Patty Sullivan which got him fired.

RIP

 

[Urgent]

Not everyone here is old enough to remember Meyers run with the Patriots. He engineered a huge turnaround in his first season and won AFC coach of the year. While newer fans won’t be very familiar with that period everyone knows what happened when Meyer called for the spot to be swept of snow just before a game-deciding kick...

 

[turkeyneck]

Meyer's in the to 5 of Pats coaches. RIP, Ron.

 

[oldrover]

May the good Lord rest you and keep you, Ron... and thanks for the memories.

Especially this one.

 

[bormio]

I’m sure Shula sends his condolences.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Meyer's in the to 5 of Pats coaches. RIP, Ron.

All due respect to his memory but not sure I agree.

BB
Tuna
Berry
Fairbanks
Holovak

 

[turkeyneck]

All due respect to his memory but not sure I agree.

BB
Tuna
Berry
Fairbanks
Holovak

BB
Fairbanks
Parcells
Berry
Holovak
Meyer

You're right. I can't count.

 

[RobertWeathers]

BB
Fairbanks
Parcells
Berry
Holovak
Meyer

You're right. I can't count.

Meyer was a good coach. Just wore out his welcome here

 

[Pats Fanatic]

Meyer was a good coach. Just wore out his welcome here

He was great for the first year or two turning a team around then the players stared to tuned him out. Same thing happened in Indy.

 

[RayClay]

Meyer's in the to 5 of Pats coaches. RIP, Ron.

Belichick Fairbanks Berry Holovak Parcells

 

[RayClay]

Meyer used to constantly tell players to empty their buckets, to which Hannah reportedly would object "empty your own dam bucket." He had a veteran problem. Still had some good periods.

 

[RayClay]

BB
Fairbanks
Parcells
Berry
Holovak
Meyer

You're right. I can't count.

And you forgot Clive Rush. Number 6 1/4.

 

[RayClay]

Belichick Fairbanks Berry Holovak Parcells

Didn't see it. Oh, and he's in the hall just on the snowplow alone.

 

[XLIX]

It was a long way from Dallas to Foxboro, especially back then.

 

[jmt57]

When Meyer was fired it was somewhat controversial. It was (and still is) very unusual for a coach with a winning record to be fired. The Pats were 5-3 when he was let go and replaced by Raymond Berry.

He got some revenge when the Colts hired him a couple years later. Meyer took over a zero-win Indy team and won each of the final three games of that season. The following year his Colts won the AFC East by one game over the Patriots.


A bit of trivia. The Patriots have fired not one, but two head coaches who never had a losing season with the Pats: Meyer and Pete Carroll.

 

[Deus Irae]

RIP Ron, and thanks for the memories

 

[DarrylS]

During the "dark days" Meyer was a glimmer of hope that things might get better, but the organization was so inept during those days the dysfunction of the Pats ownership always overshadowed this team..

My Five..
BB
Fairbanks
Berry
Holovak
Meyer

Cannot consider Parcells as he seemed to be such a mercenary and his stunt about coming back on a different plane after the last Superbowl he ever coached was bush league, he was a complete distraction in the week prior to the Superbowl.. Parcells spent much of the week ducking questions from the press about whether he was about to quit and take over the Jets.

 

[captain stone]

All due respect to his memory but not sure I agree.

BB
Tuna
Berry
Fairbanks
Holovak

Ray the Caretaker Berry ahead of Fairbanks? No way.

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Like Fairbanks before him, one of Meyer's assets was his in-depth, personal knowledge of college players he had scouted and recruited. No coincidence then that the best drafts the Pats ever had were those that immediately followed their arrival in Foxborough.