Jalen Ramsey thinks he could play in the NHL with 6 months training

[PromoTheRobot]

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/pro-trash-talker-jalen-ramsey-thinks-play-nhl-162935133.html

 

The star cornerback of the Jacksonville Jaguars calls other players overrated or trash. What does it say when he thinks he could play in the NHL with 6 months training? I'd like to see him try...but he has to learn to skate first. ?

Edited September 1, 2018 by PromoTheRobot

[GASabresIUFAN]

What is that quote from Forrest Gump?

[Randall Flagg]

This is the guy that runs through lists of players, gives enlightening, one-word responses like "trash" and "overrated" and expects us to care about his "analysis" right?

A pot-stirrer that isn't even interesting when he stirs the pot

He's pretty annoying and dumb IMO

Helluva CB though

[Weave]

I say let him try, and let Risto light him up when he's crossing the blue line with his head down.

[French Collection]

Amazing sports feats are possible for beginners, take Kim Jong Il shooting 38 under 34 on one of his first tries at golf.

[Hoss]

Wish Rasmey was on my team. Bills... or Sabres.

[SHAAAUGHT!!!]

Smart guy.  As someone who is fluent in trash talking, I can tell you this tactic buys you an "out" later on down the road.  Let's say a quarterback blows him up during a game.   Now Ramsey can say "man, I say a lot of stupid stuff.  I can't even skate and I said I could play in the NHL within 6 months." 

Edited September 1, 2018 by SHAAAUGHT!!!

[DarthEbriate]

Jalen --- if you end your football training now... if you choose the quick and easy path as I did, you will become an agent of evil.

That said, I love the attitude. And perhaps he's thinking of Erin Jackson, our US Olympian who had been doing inline skating and then went to short track ice and qualified for the Olympics in just a few months. The thing is... she's been skating since she was a kid. She had competed at very high levels and knew what she was doing -- just had to change equipment and surfaces.

The biggest question is: can Jalen skate? If he can already skate at an elite level -- sure, go for it. Because even the worst ECHL-er can skate well compared to a neophyte. Otherwise, learning to skate, stickhandle, and to see the ice at NHL speed? I think he'd be almost as useless out on the ice as I would.

[stuuuuuuuuu]

 

[PromoTheRobot]

Really? No reaction to Eichel's comments on Ramsey's verbal diarrhea? I thought it showed leadership to speak up for the players of the NHL.

 

https://billswire.usatoday.com/2018/09/06/sabres-star-jack-eichel-calls-jalen-ramseys-comments-ignorant/

Edited September 7, 2018 by PromoTheRobot

[LTS]

50 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Really? No reaction to Eichel's comments on Ramsey's verbal diarrhea? I thought it showed leadership to speak up for the players of the NHL.

 

https://billswire.usatoday.com/2018/09/06/sabres-star-jack-eichel-calls-jalen-ramseys-comments-ignorant/

Well... I didn't read it because I don't give a crap about Jalen Ramsey and at this point I feel like I've already heard his name too much for someone as pathetic as he clearly is.  He's a friggin blowhard and who's got time for that?

 

[That Aud Smell]

1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Really? No reaction to Eichel's comments on Ramsey's verbal diarrhea? I thought it showed leadership to speak up for the players of the NHL.

 

https://billswire.usatoday.com/2018/09/06/sabres-star-jack-eichel-calls-jalen-ramseys-comments-ignorant/

I felt as though Eichel came off as a humourless cement head. Lighten up, Francis.

Ramsey's a brash sh1t talker. He's basically playing a WWE/F character who's in the middle of the ring with a mic.

Nathan MacKinnon (sp?) got it right. I can't find his comments at the moment, but he got that it was just stuff and nonsense -- to be laughed at, if anything.

[ubkev]

1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Really? No reaction to Eichel's comments on Ramsey's verbal diarrhea? I thought it showed leadership to speak up for the players of the NHL.

 

https://billswire.usatoday.com/2018/09/06/sabres-star-jack-eichel-calls-jalen-ramseys-comments-ignorant/

Thought it was weak. It was s### talk 101. Evander and Mac get it and they s### talked him right back. Jack and a bunch of the other guys got all wounded. 

[That Aud Smell]

Aannnnnnnd, I'll tread super lightly here, but I will add that the use of the word "ignorant" in this particular context struck me.

Based on my experience living in the Boston area (admittedly half a lifetime ago), that word is sometimes as a bit of a coded term, not unlike how "thug" gets used.

Mind you: I don't think Eichel would intend to use the word that way, whether consciously or subconsciously. But local lexicon has a way of seeping into your cortex.

[North Buffalo]

Ramsey is no Bo Jackson... Bo knows.

[Randall Flagg]

I'm pretty sure the board talked about Eichel's comments in an unrelated thread actually 

[PromoTheRobot]

50 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:

I'm pretty sure the board talked about Eichel's comments in an unrelated thread actually 

Which one? 

[Randall Flagg]

Just now, PromoTheRobot said:

Which one? 

I can't remember, and we posted in a lot of threads yesterday. I'd just bet money on it because of the vivid deja vu that reading this this morning gave me, in particular, to yesterday morning when I did the same thing

But it's better to have it mentioned here in this thread anyway, so I only meant to comment on us not being as slow on the uptake as it appears! 

[PromoTheRobot]

1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:

I felt as though Eichel came off as a humourless cement head. Lighten up, Francis.

Ramsey's a brash sh1t talker. He's basically playing a WWE/F character who's in the middle of the ring with a mic.

Nathan MacKinnon (sp?) got it right. I can't find his comments at the moment, but he got that it was just stuff and nonsense -- to be laughed at, if anything.

I took it better. Like Eichel standing up for the NHL players. Of course Ramsey is a clown but when you don't respond to such ass-hattery you give him the last word unchallenged.

[Randall Flagg]

Promo, it was the Around the NHL thread for some reason. Just found it! mods could maybe move it here?

[PromoTheRobot]

1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:

Aannnnnnnd, I'll tread super lightly here, but I will add that the use of the word "ignorant" in this particular context struck me.

Based on my experience living in the Boston area (admittedly half a lifetime ago), that word is sometimes as a bit of a coded term, not unlike how "thug" gets used.

Mind you: I don't think Eichel would intend to use the word that way, whether consciously or subconsciously. But local lexicon has a way of seeping into your cortex.

And I'll join you on that thin ice. I've read several opinions that Ramsey's takes have a racial component as well. I guess you can take any thing any way.

[WildCard]

1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:

I felt as though Eichel came off as a humourless cement head. Lighten up, Francis.

Ramsey's a brash sh1t talker. He's basically playing a WWE/F character who's in the middle of the ring with a mic.

Nathan MacKinnon (sp?) got it right. I can't find his comments at the moment, but he got that it was just stuff and nonsense -- to be laughed at, if anything.

Same

1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:

Aannnnnnnd, I'll tread super lightly here, but I will add that the use of the word "ignorant" in this particular context struck me.

Based on my experience living in the Boston area (admittedly half a lifetime ago), that word is sometimes as a bit of a coded term, not unlike how "thug" gets used.

Mind you: I don't think Eichel would intend to use the word that way, whether consciously or subconsciously. But local lexicon has a way of seeping into your cortex.

It is literally the definition and perfect use of the word 'ignorant'. Jalen Ramsey is ignorant as to how difficult it is to play in the NHL

[That Aud Smell]

2 hours ago, WildCard said:

It is literally the definition and perfect use of the word 'ignorant'. Jalen Ramsey is ignorant as to how difficult it is to play in the NHL

That is fair. My point remains.

[nfreeman]

5 hours ago, That Aud Smell said:

Aannnnnnnd, I'll tread super lightly here, but I will add that the use of the word "ignorant" in this particular context struck me.

Based on my experience living in the Boston area (admittedly half a lifetime ago), that word is sometimes as a bit of a coded term, not unlike how "thug" gets used.

Mind you: I don't think Eichel would intend to use the word that way, whether consciously or subconsciously. But local lexicon has a way of seeping into your cortex.

Dude.

That's 2 different threads in which you've imputed -- in the same day! -- racism as the motivation behind the actions of others whom you don't know.

Although you are far from alone in this unfortunate mindset, it is highly destructive and, IMHO, is a big reason that our society finds itself polarized and attacking one other with increasing intensity.

[Hank]

5 minutes ago, nfreeman said:

Dude.

That's 2 different threads in which you've imputed -- in the same day! -- racism as the motivation behind the actions of others whom you don't know.

Although you are far from alone in this unfortunate mindset, it is highly destructive and, IMHO, is a big reason that our society finds itself polarized and attacking one other with increasing intensity.

Well said!!