Jalen Ramsey doesn’t just have harsh words for many of the NFL’s quarterbacks.
His old college coach, Jimbo Fisher, apparently also gets a failing grade.
In an interview with ESPN The Magazine’s Mina Kimes, Ramsey said the trouble started his freshman year when he – and according to Ramsey then-defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt expected him to start as a true freshman.
“I expected to, and Coach [Jeremy] Pruitt expected me to,” he says of his defensive coordinator. “Nobody else did.” The obvious omission is former head coach Jimbo Fisher, now at Texas A&M. In February, when an A&M assistant tweeted a graphic touting Fisher’s record with defensive backs, Ramsey clapped back online: “He didn’t teach me not one DB technique …”
Ramsey describes Fisher, with uncharacteristic brevity, as “OK.” I tell him I’ve never met the coach. “You’re not missing out,” he replies. During Ramsey’s sophomore year, Fisher once reamed him out after he pushed a blocker into quarterback Jameis Winston, kicking him out of practice. When I bring up the incident, Ramsey starts fiddling with his phone. “Here it is — I’ve got the video,” he says. He also saved a screenshot of the SportsCenter news alert.
It was not immediately clear how many recruits immediately had second thoughts about playing for Fisher after this story dropped.
Read more over at ESPN.
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