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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.He didn't fumble so I don't see any issue.
I know he didn't "fumble" but he didn't hang onto the ball and it's been a knock on him for a while now with Pats fans
It was a bang bang play.He was down and a player stripped him if the ball, it happens all the time and is not a fumble, if he fumbles then it will become an issue, I don't see one with this.
Stevan Ridley, ball security back in focus - espnBostonAsked about the play Saturday following his review of the coach's film, Patriots coach Bill Belichick acknowledged "it was close." Ridley's knee might have been down as safety Earl Wolff ripped the ball free.
Still, that doesn't seem to be enough to spare Ridley accountability for losing his grasp of the ball.
"We always talk about ball security, taking care of the ball. There is nothing that correlates more to winning and losing than turnovers," Belichick said Saturday. "That's always a high priority for us. We never want the ball out. ... The plays where the ball gets away from us, whether we recover it or it goes out of bounds, or they recover it, those are all plays we're trying to avoid obviously. So they do matter [when grading the play]."
Note how Belichick often takes Ridley out when he fumbles. That makes it more than a media creation.The entire Ridley fumbling issue is just nothing but a media created load of crap right from the beginning.