Calipari: Jacksonville Jaguars should call former Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis

Kentucky Wildcats basketball head coach John Calipari offered his suggestion via Twitter about who might be a worthy replacement for Urban Meyer as the Jacksonville Jaguars' head coach after the team fired Meyer late Wednesday night.

Coach Cal's choice? Marvin Lewis, the Cincinnati Bengals' head coach from 2003 to 2018 who currently works as a special assistant to Arizona State University Sun Devils head football coach Herm Edwards.

From Calipari via Twitter:

Lewis was announced in November as a head coach for the 2022 NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in January, along with former National Football League head coach Jeff Fisher. Lewis led the National Team to a 30-20 victory in the 2020 NFLPA Collegiate Bowl.

In January, Lewis talked to the Houston Texans, the Detroit Lions and the New York Jets about their head coaching vacancies.

Former Bengals offensive lineman Willie Anderson tweeted earlier this year that he believes Lewis should be hired by an NFL team looking to rebuild, insisting that "very few can do the rebuild he had to do with the Bengals."

Earlier this month, the Grambling State Tigers named Hue Jackson - who worked as an assistant coach and offensive coordinator with Lewis in Cincinnati and spent part of the 2018 season with the Bengals as a special assistant to Lewis - as their new head coach.

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