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New Jets RB Stevan Ridley says Patriots ‘made a mistake’

Stevan Ridley didn’t quite say the Patriots deflated footballs, but he definitely didn’t deny it either.

“At the end of the day, the Super Bowl champs are the Super Bowl champs,” Ridley said Thursday. “Footballs deflated or not it took a lot of hard work to get there.”

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The former Patriot was speaking for the first time since signing with the Jets as a free agent this offseason. Naturally, DeflateGate came up. At first he said he didn’t know whether New England did, indeed, deflated footballs.