Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore takes a swat at the Jagu

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Jalen Ramsey Jalen Ramsey has been talking since the Jaguars finally won a playoff game last year. Losing to the Patriots in the AFC Championship game did not slow him down , as he basically went at the entire league in the offseason. Before the game last week, he said that if Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill wanted that “smoke” (press man coverage) that it would get there.This week, the Patriots play the Chiefs and, naturally, there have been questions for the Patriots’ number one corner about both Hill and Ramsey. Stephon Gilmore isn’t a trash talker though – at least that’s what he says. But I don’t know if I believe him after what he said about Ramsey.He outright refused to say anything negative about Hill, not surprising. But he had some things to say about Ramsey. “It’s his personality ,” Gilmore said. “That’s not my style, but I find a lot of guys that talk are mostly zone guys so they have a lot of energy to do that.” Calling a lock down corner a zone player might be the most disrespectful thing you can say, and I freaking love it.After Ramsey said that Rob Gronkowski wasn’t very good, and that Brady was fine but not great, Gilmore might be taking some shots back. Or maybe he just wants more recognition for what the Patriots have been doing: In the last two games, Gilmore and Jason McCourty have combined to allow only 10 receptions on 24 targets for just 99 yards and no touchdowns. They’ve also combined for 5 pass breakups.If they keep up those numbers , no one is going to be able to deny that the Patriots field a legit defense, whether they talk about it or not. Pat is the host of the Weekend Warrior Podcast Interact with him on Twitter @wtplane On Monday, the potential door to Green Bay closed on Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. On Tuesday, McDaniels closed the door on leaving the Patriots, at least for this year.After a conference call with reporters during which McDaniels said he won’t interview with any other teams during the 2019 cycle, McDaniels confirmed to Phil Perry of NBCSportsBoston.com that McDaniels will indeed stay put.This year , McDaniels interviewed only with the Packers. The Browns reportedly were interested in McDaniels, and the interest reportedly was mutual. However, it appears that any interest will be going nowhere. (In theory, McDaniels presumably could have taken the Browns job without a formal interview; he previously interviewed for the job in 2014.)PFT reported over the weekend, when McDaniels was still a viable candidate for the Green Bay job, that the Patriots were preparing for McDaniels to leave , either for Green Bay or Cleveland. The Patriots can now stop those preparations and focus exclusively on winning one or more (ideally, three) postseason games.McDaniels wouldn’t have interviewed for the Packers job (or any other job) unless he had real interest in taking the job. McDaniels declined an opportunity to interview with the Bengals. None of the other teams with vacancies formally pursued him.