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Invoice Belichick has at all times requested loads of his gamers whereas teaching the New England Patriots, whether or not it was a Tremendous Bowl, a regular-season recreation or only a coaching camp observe. 

One former Patriot stated he witnessed Belichick’s stern teaching nearly instantly after getting drafted. 

“I suppose we’ll begin with how Invoice put me in fats camp,” ex-Pats working again Stevan Ridley, a third-round choose within the 2011 NFL Draft by New England, stated on the “Video games with Names” podcast with Julian Edelman. 

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Ridley stated Belichick put him in “fats camp” as a result of he was “obese” for an NFL working again coming out of LSU. 

So, how a lot weight did Belichick need Ridley to chop? 

“You may have that assembly the place you are available there, and also you’re a rookie. And he provides you your enjoying weight. And he introduced me into the workplace as a result of I’m going into the load room, and [former Patriots strength coach Harold] Nash stated, ‘Hop on the size, Ridley,’” Ridley informed Edelman.

“I hopped on the size, and I’m about 235, 238 kilos. I performed at LSU round 230 as a working again. Eight kilos is so much, bro.” 

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Ridley stated the Patriots clearly knew he was an even bigger working again, and he clearly did one thing to be drafted within the third spherical. 

However Ridley claims Belichick informed him he needed to get his enjoying weight all the way down to 220 kilos. 

“How? I stated, ‘You’re tripping, bro.’ I stated, ‘Nah,’” Ridley recalled. “[Nash] stated, ‘Don’t ask me. I’m telling you what the boss man stated.’”

Ridley went to Belichick’s workplace to listen to from the top coach himself. 

“I walked in and stated, ‘Coach, I want to speak to you about this weight. And he stated, ‘What’s the quantity? I can’t actually keep in mind what I had.’ Two-twenty, that’s unimaginable. And he checked out me, and he stated, ‘Effectively, Rid, I imply, actually, I believe it’s solely about $563 per pound per day that you simply’re obese. So, it’s actually as much as you.’ 

“I can do fast math. I’m a third-round draft choose, I ain’t received cash like that. So, fats camp I went.”

Ridley received to engaged on his weight, and it paid dividends after he made it to Belichick’s most popular enjoying weight of 220. 

Regardless of what Ridley thought at first, it labored out for him. 

“Fast as a cat, man,” he stated, laughing, when Edelman requested how he felt. “Freaking nasty, dude. As soon as I received to that enjoying weight, I used to be like, ‘Hey, Invoice is aware of what the hell he’s speaking about.’”

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Ridley performed 4 years in New England, working for two,817 yards, together with 1,263 his sophomore marketing campaign through the 2012 season, which included 12 of his 22 profession speeding touchdowns with the Patriots. Ridley was part of the 2014 Patriots squad that shockingly defeated the Seattle Seahawks in the 2015 Super Bowl because of Malcolm Butler’s goal-line interception. 

Ridley then performed for the New York Jets, Atlanta Falcons and Pittsburgh Steelers after his Tremendous Bowl-winning last season in New England.

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