Bill Belichick has always asked a lot of his players while drawing the New England Patriots, whether it’s a Super Bowl, a regular season game or simply a training camp.
A former patriot said that he had witnessed Belichick Severe coach almost immediately after being drafted.
“I guess we are going to start with the way Bill put me in Fat Camp,” said the NFL podcast in 2011, the ex-Pats, said Podcast “Games with names” with Julian Edelman.
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The Patriots of New England The Ball bearer Stevan Ridley (22) run the ball against the secondary outside the Bengals of Cincinnati, Vincent Rey (57) at the Gillette Stadium. (David Butler II / USA TODAY SPORTS)
Ridley said Belichick put him in “Fat Camp” because he was “overweight” for a Ballon carrier from the NFL out of LSU.
So how much Belichick weight wanted Ridley to cut?
“You have this meeting where you get there, and you are a recruit. And it gives you your weight of play. And it brought me to the office because I go to the weight room, and [former Patriots strength coach Harold] Nash said: “Hop on scale, Ridley,” Ridley told Edelman.
“I jumped on the ladder, and I have around 235, 238 pounds. I played LSU around 230 as a ball carrier. Eight pounds, it’s Bro.”
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Ridley said the Patriots obviously knew he was a bigger ball carrier, and he clearly did something to recover in the third round.
But Ridley claims that Belichick told him that he had to reduce his weight of play to 220 pounds.
“How? I said,” You will trip, my brother. “I said:” No “,” recalls Ridley. “[Nash] said, “Don’t ask me. I tell you what the boss said. ‘”
Ridley went to the Belichick office to hear the head coach himself.
New England coach Patriots Bill Belichick during training on September 18, 2019 in Foxborough, Mass. (AP photo / Steven Senne, file)
“I entered and said,” Coach, I need to tell you about this weight. And he said, “What is the number? I don’t really remember what I had.” Two Twenty is impossible.
“I can make quick mathematics. I am a third -round draft choice, I have no money like that. So, big camp, I went.”
Ridley started working on his weight, and that poured dividends after reaching Belichick’s favorite game weight of 220.
Despite what Ridley thought at first, it worked for him.
“Quick like a cat, guy,” he said, laughing, when Edelman asked how he felt. “Freaking Nasty, guy. Once I got to this weight, I said to myself:” Hey, Bill knows what hell he is talking about. “”
The Patriots of New England, the Ball bearer Stevan Ridley, run against the Oakland Raiders at the Gillette Stadium. (Winslow Townson / USA TODAY SPORTS)
Ridley played for four years in New England, taking place for 2,817 yards, including 1,263 his second campaign during the 2012 season, which included 12 of his 22 career-hitting with the Patriots. Ridley was part of the 2014 Patriots team who defeated Seattle Seattle Seattle Seahawks in the 2015 Super Bowl thanks to the interception of Malcolm Butler’s goal line.
Ridley then played for the New York Jets, the Falcons of Atlanta and the Steelers of Pittsburgh after his last winning season of the Super Bowl in New England.
