Jets running back Stevan Ridley wasn’t on the field for the AFC Championship game because of a torn ACL — so that allows him some room to critique his former organization.
Ridley was a member of the Patriots as they made their way to a Super Bowl championship last season, and knows the ins and outs of the deflategate scandal.
During the start of Jets OTAs, Ridley wouldn’t get to deep into the details of deflategate, but acknowledges that the Patriots made a mistake.
“They made a mistake,” Ridley said, via NJ.com. “The best thing that can happen is that they deal with that on their own. That has nothing to do with the New York Jets, and this is where I am now. At the end of the day, the Super Bowl champs are the Super Bowl champs. The football is deflated or not, it took a lot of hard work to get there. I’m not saying they’re right; I’m not saying they’re wrong. But what I am saying is you can’t take away that they got that title.”
Ridley of course said stressed that he didn’t have any “first-hand” information about tampering with footballs that he never used.