Teddy Bridgewater retired final offseason after a decade-long NFL profession and shortly after turned his alma mater’s highschool soccer coach. This previous weekend, Bridgewater and Miami Northwestern High received the Florida Class 3A state title.
Now that his first season as a highschool coach is full, the 32-year-old Bridgewater may return to the NFL.
“Coach Teddy, hopefully, we’ll see how this subsequent week and a half, two weeks performs out, he may signal with a staff or one thing like that,” Bridgewater advised NFL Network on Tuesday. “And then get again to teaching highschool soccer in February. So we’ll see.”
“That’s the plan,” the previous quarterback stated when requested if he was severe a couple of potential return. “My staff is aware of that is the plan. We needed to win a state championship after which the coach comes again to the league, sees what occurs, after which comes again in February within the offseason, continues to educate highschool soccer. So we’ll see the way it goes you play.”
If Bridgewater returns to the NFL, it could make sense for him to hitch a playoff staff with hopes of profitable a Super Bowl title. Two of his former groups, the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings, have already secured spots within the postseason.
Bridgewater spent the 2023 season as Jared Goff’s backup in Detroit. He appeared briefly in a single recreation and retired after the Lions fell to the San Francisco 49ers within the NFC title recreation.
In 2014, the Vikings chosen Bridgewater with the ultimate decide within the first spherical. He took over the beginning position 4 weeks into his rookie season and led Minnesota to the NFC North title in his second yr. After a Pro Bowl season in 2015, Bridgewater suffered a devastating knee damage in August 2016 that almost ended his profession.
He finally returned to the sector in 2017 as a reserve in Minnesota. Subsequently, he joined the New Orleans Saints for 2 seasons and began six video games as a alternative for Drew Brees. From then on he turned a professional, spending a yr with the Panthers, Broncos, Dolphins and Lions and beginning 31 video games in that span.
In his profession, Bridgewater has solely performed one postseason recreation. He began for the Vikings within the wild card spherical towards the Seahawks in the course of the 2015 season. On a frigid January day, Minnesota misplaced when kicker Blair Walsh missed a possible game-winning 27-yard subject objective try.
Bridgewater appeared in 79 video games within the NFL, throwing for 15,120 yards, 75 touchdowns and 47 interceptions.
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