Welcome to the Wednesday edition of The Cooler, where it is always important to speak one's mind. Let's get to it:
*Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey is one of the best in the NFL at his position. He's also a prodigious trash-talker who has never been afraid to give an honest opinion.
His penchant for mixing it up led him, in fact, to get suspended by Jacksonville for this week after he yelled at reporters who were recording a training camp skirmish. That means he won't be in Eagan on Wednesday and Thursday for joint practices with the Vikings, so we'll just have to be entertained by the things Ramsey said in a recent interview with GQ.
In that piece, Ramsey runs through — and runs down — pretty much every NFL quarterback.
He calls Bills rookie Josh Allen "trash." He has a very low opinion of the Ravens' Joe Flacco and the Giants' Eli Manning. He's not sold on Jimmy Garoppolo, saying it was "all schemes" when the 49ers QB beat the Jags last year. Dak Prescott? "He's good. He's alright. He's okay. I'll put it that way." Ben Roethlisberger is "decent at best." Andrew Luck isn't that good and Matt Ryan is "overrated."
Whew. That's quite a roll. He did praise a decent chunk of QBs, starting with Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers.
Of particular interest to you, perhaps, is what he had to say about new Vikings QB Kirk Cousins: "I think he's good. I think he's a winner. … Coming off the play action, he's the best quarterback in the league."
I mean, Ramsey is pretty brash. But I would also invite you to try to spot the lie in his rundown of quarterbacks. It's pretty spot-on.
