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Jalen Ramsey Jersey , Fla. (AP)Jalen Ramsey got his hands dirty Tuesday for the first time since the birth of his daughter.Ramsey reported to Jacksonville Jaguars training camp and jumped right into the mix with the first-team defense, taking part in drills, talking trash and breaking up passes.Sweat, grass, dirt. It might have been the messiest Ramsey’s hands have been since he skipped the start of camp to remain in Tennessee with his girlfriend, Bre, and newborn daughter, Breelyn. That’s because the All-Pro cornerback, whose hands might be as valuable as anyone’s on that side of the ball, made a deal with Bre that he wouldn’t have to change diapers.”We’ve been best friends since high school so we’ve always kind of talked about how the process would go a little bit,” Ramsey said. ”Of course, everything’s different when it actually happens, but for the most part, we have really good agreement that I won’t necessarily have to change diapers.”So what is Ramsey’s part of the trade-off?”She changes the diapers; I feed her,” he said.Ramsey became a first-time father last Wednesday, the day the Jaguars reported for camp. He missed four practices to spend extra time with his family. Coach Doug Marrone excused his absences.”It is good when everybody is together, everyone is back in and everyone is in a good place mentally Womens Brandon Linder Jersey ,” Marrone said. ”Just having that balance in your life, making sure everyone is good at home, making sure everyone is OK, making sure everything is set. Then you can get here and then you can focus and put your mind on what you need to do. It is always good when you can get everyone back in here, and I am glad everything worked out well.”Marrone had planned to work Ramsey in slowly, but the ultra-competitive, lock-down cornerback refused to stay on the sideline during his first day back. The Jaguars had to like what they saw, even though they’ve seen similar from him for two years now.Ramsey played in every game in two seasons and emerged as one of the league’s top defenders.He expects to be even better in Year 3.”We’re going to see when the season starts, right?” he said. ”We’re going to see. And y’all will see. Y’all will see. I never give myself like goals. I guess you could say like, `Oh, I’m going to have this many interceptions; I’m going to have this many” pass breakups.”But what I can tell you, though, that I will do is I’ll make sure I prepare myself and I’m ready to go out there and give it my all so I’m not letting anybody down, my teammates, coaches, my family, y’all http://www.thejaguarslockerroom.com/authentic-niles-paul-jersey , fans. I can tell you that much.”He gets one of his toughest tests in the team’s season opener at the New York Giants and against three-time Pro Bowl receiver Odell Beckham Jr.”Let’s get this out the way right now: He’s a good receiver. We all know that,” said Ramsey, the fifth overall pick in the 2016 NFL draft. ”But y’all know me at the same time. Yeah, he’s good. But I’m good, too. If y’all want to say he’s the best at his position; I’m the best at my position, so we’re going to go at it. We’re going to give the people a show the first game of the season.”He’s going to have some wins; I’m going to have some wins. I just plan on having more wins.”Ramsey is the outspoken face of Jacksonville’s vaunted defense, a unit that was among the best in the league in 2017. The Jaguars return 10 starters on that side of the ball, including all four in the secondary, and expect to be even more dynamic in their second season together.”At the end of the day, win games,” he said. ”If we can win games on the defensive side of the ball. We can always ask for more: More turnovers, more touchdowns, more opportunities giving the ball back to the offense. Just more of everything.”Except diapers.”It feels good” to be back, Ramsey said. ”Miss my little girl already, but it feels good. It was cool. It was good. Long few days, but everything that I could have dreamed of.”— NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes it’s not the quarterback who has fallen apart, it’s the quarterbacking situation that has gone wrong.Fans and “experts” can scream all they want about Eli Manning http://www.thejaguarslockerroom.com/authentic-keelan-cole-jersey , Blake Bortles and Derek Carr . The truth is, Manning likely isn’t washed up, Bortles should never be counted on as the go-to guy on offense, and Carr doesn’t seem to have the confidence of the old/new coach.While the Patriots, Saints and Packers can relax knowing they have Hall of Fame-quality QBs, and the Steelers, Chargers and Seahawks have men behind center who could be in that company, a bunch of teams have predicaments at the key offensive position. And it’s not necessarily the players involved who should be the targets of all the criticism.Take Buffalo, for example. Bills faithful were so thrilled to see their team break that ridiculously long playoff drought that they ignored or pushed aside the fact the Bills are not real talented. Well coached for sure, but not brimming with stars.Then management messed up the backup QB configuration by acquiring, then getting rid of, AJ McCarron after having traded away Tyrod Taylor, who helped get them to the postseason for the first time since the turn of the century. Sure, going after Josh Allen in the first round of the draft made sense. Sticking him in behind a depleted and under-skilled line and with no true No. 1 receivers does not.What’s going on in Jacksonville is another example of much of the blame being misplaced. No, Bortles has not earned his keep this season, but he’s been inconsistent throughout his five-year pro career, and there was no reason to believe he’d become an All-Pro.That’s not what the Jaguars were looking for Womens Marcell Dareus Jersey , anyway — though they would have taken it. They want to pound the ball with Leonard Fournette, but he’s been injured almost as often as he’s been healthy. And they wanted to rely on their defense, which has sprung leaks.Bortles’ strength is as a complementary piece. When he has to be a focal point, he tends to flop.Then there’s Manning, whose two Super Bowl rings should have earned him a lot more respect and leeway than the New York fans or tabloids are willing to dole out. Manning hasn’t lost his grit, his intelligence or his arm strength. What he’s lost is a semblance of protection from an offensive line weaker than any other than perhaps Buffalo’s.Manning also is in a new offensive system for the third time in four years. If that’s a problem for a veteran quarterback — and it is — imagine how challenging it is for the relative kids.Rich Gannon, the 2002 NFL MVP who spent much of his career mastering difference schemes and now dissects them as one of the most insightful NFL TV analysts, points directly to system change as a culprit for poor quarterback play in some cities.“Different systems are the most dysfunctional situation you can have,” Gannon says. “A guy like Alex Smith, look at what he went through with all the coordinators in his first seven years in the league (in San Francisco). It’s crazy, and the player is never able to grow in a system. I think you see it with Mariota; Marcus is not able to grow with a system because of all those changes, and you are stunting their growth when you do it.“Suppose I say to you in the first year, we are going to learn German together. Then I come to you the next year, we are going to learn Spanish. The next year it’s French, then Polish. You have nothing to fall back on and that is what is happening with a lot of these situations. They draft a guy and in his first year they put him through that?“You can’t let the system change around the quarterback. One of the biggest reasons that Mike McCarthy and Aaron, Sean Payton and Drew, or Tom and the Patriots have had so much success is (continuity). When Charlie Weis was getting ready to leave Josh Lambo Jersey , the Patriots didn’t look outside, they stayed in the building and hired someone you didn’t know, Josh McDaniels. When Josh left (for Denver), they promoted Bill O’Brien. Then Josh returned.”Gannon also notes that putting novice quarterbacks on the field so early is a recipe for failure because of the practice limitations in the offseason and regular season. You can cram all kinds of stuff into their heads, and some playbooks stack high enough to use as Olympic diving boards.“It’s all about reps, right? Repetition is the mother of learning,” he says.“These rookies aren’t getting the reps. We have the rules where when they are in college and it’s not until they graduate can you get them in to the program. Then they took away quarterback school and some of the learning in the spring (through the CBA).“Most of them are not getting the reps initially — Allen and (Jets rookie Sam) Darnold weren’t getting a ton, even (Cleveland’s top overall draftee) Baker Mayfield wasn’t because they were going with Tyrod Taylor. Then Tyrod gets hurt and they go, ‘Now we’ll give you all the reps.’ That’s on Sept. 10. Can’t work like that.“More important is the thorough understanding of the system and how much they can retain and process. The coaches call these plays and the quarterback is walking to the line thinking about what he’s supposed to be doing, who is his No. 1 progression, what’s the personnel? They don’t even get a chance to look at the defensive side of the ball.“With Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady and Drew Brees, they hear that play and the whole play comes to life in a split-second for them. Their eyes are always set on the defense, what are the coverages and alignment, where is the pressure? Because they know everything instantly about the play. For the rookie, it is several stages down the road before reaching that.”