Patriots’ Stevan Ridley to be active for Sunday’s game against the Browns
By Mike Dyce
Last week, the New England Patriots put running back Stevan Ridley on the inactive list as a healthy scratch. It looked like head coach Bill Belichick was trying to send Ridley, who has had problems fumbling lately a message. Belichick denied that notion though.
“If I have a message to send to somebody, I’ll just sit down and talk to them and tell them what it is,” Belichick said, via the team’s site. “I can have a conversation and do have a conversation with anybody on the team that I need to have a conversation with. That’s not a problem. There’s no sending a message. You sit down and talk to somebody man-to-man and talk about the situation so that we’re all on the same page as to whatever it happens to be and what the direction is going forward. That’s easy. There’s not sending a message. You just have a conversation with somebody. This isn’t cryptic. We’re just trying to win a football game, that’s all.”
“The inactive players every week are based on, in part injuries and ultimately what we feel like for that particular game is the best decision for the football team in that game to try to win,” Belichick said. “Along with every other decision on the team that I make, it’s made with what gives our team, in our opinion, the best opportunity to win on Sundays. That’s what all decisions are based on.”
Looks like Belichick was either right, or Ridley is out of the dog house because he is active for Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Browns, according to MassLive.com.