Jalen Ramsey Details in Interview What Went Wrong in Jacksonville

Jalen Ramsey laid it all out on the line during an ESPN interview on Sunday morning.

Former Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey gave an interview with Ryan Clark on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown about what went wrong in Jacksonville. JaguarMaven transcribed the majority of the interview and will dig into it here and ultimately what it means.

• "It started when there was a front office change in Jacksonville. Some guys were put in positions of power who didn’t care to understand even us as players or us as people in general."

Jalen Ramsey essentially saying here that things took a turn for the wore in 2017 when Tom Coughlin became the team's executive vice president of football operations. No other major front office changes took place during Ramsey's time here.

• I have always went to everything mandatory. Always. But not going to voluntary workouts, I was talked bad about by some guys in the front office to the media. I was basically portrayed I guess you could say as a bum, to be honest. "
• "I was portrayed as a guy who didn’t work hard."
• "That rubbed me the wrong way. That definitely rubbed me the wrong way because that is not who I am."

Again, Ramsey does not say Coughlin's name but it is clear who he is referring to here. Coughlin said in April he was disappointed that Ramsey and former Jaguars linebacker Telvin Smith were not at voluntary workouts, which Ramsey then publicly responded to.

• "Me and coach (Doug) Marrone, we always had a straight relationship"
• "That incident was just what it was. Week in and week out, when I was in Jacksonville, I was asked to do the toughest task, to me, I felt like on the team. Was to go eliminate No. 1 receivers so that everyone else could go play their game."
• "DeAndre Hopkins, the best receiver in the NFL, I am strapping up against (him), following him everywhere across the field. And I saw on a route where I felt like he had dropped a pass. I actually saw the ball hit the ground, and I am asking for the challenge flag."
• "He didn’t give me the challenge flag and that is fine, that is the difference right there, we saw a difference in that."
• "That was more so, “yo, I am one of your top players and you ask me to do this tough task during this game, I want you to trust me.” That is all that was. If you would have thrown a flag and we would have lost it, I would have came to you like, ‘hey, I appreciate you trusting me but my bad.’ but the fact that he didn’t throw the challenge flag, it rubbed me the wrong way."
• "We had the situation on the sideline, we were done with it. "

Ramsey here is referring to his sideline blowup with Jaguars head coach Doug Marrone during the team's Week 2 13-12 loss to the Houston Texans. Ramsey and Marrone got into a shouting match over Marrone not challenging a questionable DeAndre Hopkins catch.

Ramsey saying the incident wasn't a huge deal in the moment is more or less what both he and Marrone said in the days following the incident as well, but the perceived lack of trust that Ramsey felt from the entire incident obviously affected him.

• "After the game, I get called into a meeting, a little small room, and I am not going to go into all the details of that meeting, but it was some front office guys in that meeting, about four guys, and myself."

• "The disrespect got to another level in that meeting, and mind you, coach Marrone wasn’t even in that meeting."

• "Two of y’all are sitting down who I really respect a lot, and then you know another certain two are standing up like over me."

• "It was a conversation as man that like, you are not going to talk to me this way. This tone you are talking to me in, you are not going to talk to me in this tone. The things you are saying, you are not going to say that, because you wouldn’t say this if we were in another space."

It is unclear who was all in this meeting, but sources confirmed to JaguarMaven that Coughlin was present. Ramsey did not go into what was said during the meeting, just that the overall tone and context of the meeting was something he deemed as disrespectful.

Ramsey was then asked by Clark if the lack of a new contract from the Jaguars this offseason factored into his trade request, which he also addressed.

• "Not at all. The exact reasons I named, the respect, trust and not valuing me, was the only reasons. Those we're the only reasons."
• "I did not want to play for those couple of guys in the front office."

Ramsey did not indicate who else in the front office he had an issue with, but it is clear as day that Coughlin was one of the main people whose relationship with Ramsey forced the trade.

Ramsey was traded to the Los Angeles Rams on Tuesday for two first-round picks and a fourth-round pick, effectively putting an end to his month-long standoff with Jacksonville.

Moving forward, the Jaguars will need to examine this entire situation and why things went so wrong so quickly with their best player. If not, then what they got for Ramsey will simply be used in vain.