Jets' Richardson: 'I'm not a butt patter'

After strip-sacking Ryan Tannehill in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game, New York Jets defensive end Sheldon Richardson appeared to say something to the Miami Dolphins quarterback and give him a friendly pat on the behind.

At least that's how one reporter remembered it.

Richardson denied saying anything to Tannehill or patting him on the butt after the play.

"I don't think I patted him on the butt," Richardson told Darryl Slater of NJ.com. "I'm not the butt patter. I might've helped him ... I didn't help him up, but I kind of walked off, and celebrated a little bit. Not too much."

Slater, the reporter who mistook the butt pat, says video replay supports Richardson's claim.

Richardson did, however, point to himself as the reason the Jets blitzed the Dolphins less Sunday than they did during their first meeting in Week 4.

"I'm back," he said, referring to the four-game suspension he served earlier in the season for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy. "I want to take some credit for that, hopefully."