{"id":1074,"date":"2025-08-05T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:07:49","slug":"teddy-bridgewater-to-sign-with-buccaneers-following-suspension-from-high-school-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/teddy-bridgewater-to-sign-with-buccaneers-following-suspension-from-high-school-coaching-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Bridgewater to sign with Buccaneers following suspension from high school coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teddy Bridgewater is making another NFL comeback, as\u00a0Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/u><\/a> general manager Jason Licht confirmed the team\u2019s plans to sign him.<\/p>\n

Bridgewater, 32, is coming out of retirement for the second time to join\u00a0Baker Mayfield<\/u><\/a> and Kyle Trask. Licht confirmed to reporters on Tuesday that Bridgewater was in Tampa for a visit and that while no deal is official, the “intention” is to sign him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We had some discussions about it, that it\u2019d be a nice addition to the [quarterback] room, good for Baker. Experienced guy, obviously a smart, hell of high school coach \u2013 hell of a coach in general. But just a good addition just to have that wealth of experience there.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Licht did not say that Bridgewater would step in to serve as the backup over Trask, but did say that the competition is still open.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bridgewater has played 10 seasons in the NFL, predominately with the\u00a0Minnesota Vikings,<\/u><\/a> who he was selected by in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He also spent time with the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos and the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n

NFL WORLD RUSHES TO DEFENSE OF TEDDY BRIDGEWATER AFTER STAR QB SUSPENDED FROM HIGH SCHOOL COACHING JOB<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In 2023, he announced his plans to retire, which he officially did in early 2024. He went on to pursue coaching football at his former high school in Miami, where he led the team to a Class 3A state championship last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bridgewater came out of retirement in December\u00a0to join the Detroit Lions<\/u><\/a> in their playoff pursuit. He is 33-32 as a starter and has totaled 15,120 yards, 75 touchdowns, 47 interceptions and has a 90.5 passer rating.<\/p>\n

Last month, Bridgewater was suspended from coaching his former high school team for providing players with financial benefits. He questioned the suspension, adding in a Facebook post that he “self reported.” He also said in the post, “I’m not going anywhere.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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Teddy Bridgewater is making another NFL comeback, as\u00a0Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht confirmed the team\u2019s plans to sign him. Bridgewater, 32, is coming out of retirement for the second time to join\u00a0Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask. Licht confirmed to reporters on Tuesday that Bridgewater was in Tampa for a visit and that while…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}