Out with shoulder damage, ‘Coach’ Jalen Ramsey shines on Rams sideline – Los Angeles Rams Weblog

IRVINE, Calif. — As Matthew Stafford led the Los Angeles Rams‘ offense down the sector, Jalen Ramsey stood on the defensive sideline, play script in hand.

Ramsey, who’s recovering from offseason surgical procedure on his left shoulder, sat out the primary two weeks of observe before being cleared by team doctors on Saturday. Whereas recuperating, the cornerback regarded like one other assistant coach on the sidelines together with his Rams No. 5 T-shirt and bucket hat, which is strictly why head coach Sean McVay opted to not put Ramsey on the PUP listing to start out camp.

After he did some rehab throughout particular person drills, you could possibly normally discover Ramsey subsequent to defensive coordinator Raheem Morris or teaching up a teammate as quickly as a play is over.

“Really, it is horrible having him as a coach,” Morris stated with a smile. “He is obtained all of the solutions. He needs to make all of the checks. He needs to do all these things.

“He is like a extremely good participant that turns right into a coach, they usually develop into a extremely unhealthy coach they usually find yourself quitting and doing one thing else. … I am unable to wait until he’s a participant once more.”

Morris laughed, earlier than saying, “He’s numerous enjoyable, although.”

The reality is, for as a lot as Ramsey and his defensive coordinator have gone backwards and forwards on the sideline, Morris stated his star cornerback has proven throughout camp “how concerned he’s into what we do and the way invested he’s into his younger gamers.”

When Ramsey was requested about his function on the sideline early in coaching camp, he stated he is glad he might help his teammates, however finally, he simply could not keep away.

“It is form of the one method I can get pleasure from it,” Ramsey stated. “As a result of I wish to be on the market. You understand what I imply?”

Ramsey stated he carried the play script so he may know precisely what the playcall is and subsequently “the sure methods that I really feel like they need to’ve been utilizing or that would have helped them.” This allowed him to present his teammates suggestions as quickly as they get off the sector as a substitute of getting to attend till the place group is reviewing movie within the assembly room.

“It is large as a result of Jalen goes to be an enormous a part of what we do defensively,” McVay stated. “He is obtained nice possession on what we’re doing. Whenever you’re in a position to play a number of positions, you have to have a big-picture understanding of what we’re making an attempt to get finished defensively. Then the expertise that he has, there’s numerous situations the place, ‘OK, how would you like to have the ability to play this? What are among the mixtures and route ideas that you will see primarily based on what we’re in coverage-wise? The place are your play alternatives inside the framework of these coverages?’

“And his potential to speak that, that power is contagious and you may actually see numerous that swag that he has is form of rubbing off on actually our DBs as an entire, protection as an entire, particularly a few of these youthful guys.”

The Rams added 4 defensive backs within the draft, and two of them, cornerbacks Cobie Durant (fourth spherical) and Derion Kendrick (sixth spherical) have actually benefited from Ramsey’s experience. Kendrick stated Ramsey has been serving to him together with his approach and with ideas different groups would possibly “attempt to confuse us with.”

“There was a time once I may have buzzed out to the flat as a substitute of simply working straight again,” Durant stated. “But it surely was simply that point the place he [said] I may have opened up after which performed with quarterback imaginative and prescient. So it is simply little issues.”

Apart from serving to out his teammates, defensive backs coach Jonathan Cooley stated he thinks the expertise will assist Ramsey develop as a defensive again, too, as a result of he is “in a position to see issues from extra of a coach’s perspective.”

“It helps his lens,” Cooley stated. “So he is beloved it. He is getting a bit of bit bored as we preserve going, however he is been doing an excellent job with it. It has been enjoyable having him round in that facet.”

So does Cooley assume Ramsey might be a coach someday? The assistant coach laughed.

“No,” Cooley stated. “No. He would not have sufficient persistence. Perhaps a highschool coach again in Nashville.”

And Morris, regardless of the exhausting time he provides his star cornerback, says he hopes much more positivity comes out of Ramsey’s short-term function.

“Everyone knows Ramsey,” Morris stated. “He can have some moments the place emotion takes over what he needs and what he actually believes, however his true essence of who he’s comes out in these instances within the assembly rooms and in coaching camp.

“You hope that builds him to develop into a greater participant when he would not have the very best days that he needs or isn’t getting communicated the best way he was as a result of he relied on a majority of these experiences. That is solely going to assist him be a greater participant, higher chief, a greater every thing for us.”