Orlando Sentinel

Ramsey’s immaturity bringing down Jags

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Former FSU star

the immature and insufferab­le face of the Jacksonvil­le Jaguars, was at it again during his Q&A session with reporters earlier this week when he gave a flurry of disinteres­ted one- and twoword answers to a variety of questions. It was an encore performanc­e of his bratty post-game locker room interview after the sinking Jaguars were pummeled 40-7 by the mediocre Dallas Cowboys last week.

Ramsey, who has no trouble being bold and brash when things are going well, suddenly turns rude and brusque when the going gets tough. If you ask me, Ramsey’s childish attitude is partly why the Jaguars have lost three of four games and their once-proud defense has been shredded the last two weeks.

Ramsey is a great player but a terrible leader. You want your leader to stand up and set the tone for the rest of the team during trying times, not shrink in the moment and run into a rabbit hole. You want the face of your franchise to be engaging, embraceabl­e and profession­al, not surly, brooding and infantile.

The bottom line is this: Jalen Ramsey needs to grow up or his Jaguars will continue to fall down.

Mikey likes: UCF over Least Carolina by 100, USF over UConn by 100, FSU over Wake Florist by 28, Jags over Texans by 7, Bucs over Browns by 5, Lions over Dolphins by 6, Power 5 team on a bye week over UCF by 2 (spots) in the next A.P. poll.

Short stuff: Did you see where the NBA’s G League is going to start offering elite high school basketball players (see one-anddoners) $125,000 per year if they want to bypass college. Two words for this move: Pay cut! ... True story: Kleenex will re-brand its "Mansize" tissues after some consumers complained the name was sexist. Coming soon: Thought-police force NASA to retroactiv­ely edit

moon speech to say, “One small step for a gender neutral; one giant step for gender-neutralkin­d.”

Orlando City is not only a bad team, it is a historical­ly bad team. With their most recent loss, the Lions have yielded more goals

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