Breath of honesty

The Jalen Ramsey Quarterback Rating System got a lot of run in the interwhatsitsphere yesterday, with some people thinking the Jacksonville Jaguars defensive back was a raging megalomaniacal jackwagon of the first order, and other people not thinking he was a raging megalomaniacal jackwagon of the first order.

The Blob tends to lean toward the latter opinion.

I mean, yeah, Ramsey is a raging megalomaniacal jackwagon of the first order. But at least he says what he thinks, which is what media always says it wants from public figures until it gets it.

Besides, if you're a Packers or Patriots fan, you should be fine with Ramsey. I mean, he did say both Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady "didn't suck."

Which is not what he said about Joe Flacco, in an interview with GQ. What he said about Flacco (accurately, by the way) is that he does suck. He said Andrew Luck isn't that good, Ben Roethlisberger is "decent at best" and Matt Ryan is "overrated." He said high-dollar draft pick Josh Allen of the Bills is "trash." He said (again, pretty accurately) that Odell Beckham "makes" Eli Manning.

 Deshaun Watson and Carson Wentz are future MVPs. Russell Wilson is good. Dak Prescott is "okay." Kirk Cousins -- Kirk Cousins! -- is "a winner." On and on.

(Personally, I think calling Cousins a "winner" is probably the most controversial thing Ramsey told GQ, at least from the media's standpoint. Never seen a quarterback who's put up the numbers Cousins has put up get so consistently downed by the sports-talk poodles. For that reason I'm rooting for the Vikings to win the Super Bowl and Cousins to win MVP. Although I suppose the poodles would still find a way to diminish him.)

Where was I?

Oh, yeah. Jalen Ramsey. Layin' it out there.

There have always been athletes who've been willing to say what they think, and they've almost always drawn adverse reactions. This has been especially true of African-American athletes, for reasons too obvious to bear explaining. And yet Ramsey is just a kinda-sorta flip side of Our Only Available President, who gets routinely cheered by his followers for not being "politically correct" when he lapses into Raging Megalomaniacal Jackwagon mode.

And Ramsey?

Well, he's not politically correct, either. Or at least he wasn't in the GQ piece. And yet somehow I'm guessing the same people who love OOAP for that wouldn't exactly raise a cheer for Jalen Ramsey.

Just a feeling, you know.