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• What If: The Houston Texans drafted Derek Carr in 2014?

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images Imagine if playing QB for the Houston Texans became the Carr family business. Perhaps one of the biggest post-draft NFL headlines centered on New Orleans Saints’ QB Derek Carr’s retirement. Carr left the NFL as a 4-time Pro Bowler, playing for two franchises: Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders and New Orleans Saints. He amassed a 77-92 record (0-1 playoff record)...2025
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• Brooks: J.J. McCarthy Is the Biggest “Wild Card” of 2025

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images It makes sense Since the end of the 2024 season, the Minnesota Vikings have taken numerous measures to improve themselves, including shoring up the lines on both sides of the ball and adding a solid complement to Aaron Jones in the form of Jordan Mason. The questions surrounding the team stem from the most important position on the roster, and with goo...2025
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• Browns 2025 Schedule Primer: Week 4, Detroit Lions roster changes, updates and more

Denny Medley-Imagn Images Cleveland will be looking for just its second win in Detroit in franchise history. The Cleveland Browns will face the Detroit Lions in Week 4 of the 2025 NFL season. The Lions were the talk of the NFL for most of the 2024 season in winning the NFC North Division. But they were one-and-done in the playoffs as quarterback Jared Goff tossed three interceptions and t...2025
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• Ranking the Heartbreaks

Photo by Brian Peterson/Star Tribune via Getty Images To Err is Human. Ask a Vikings Fan. We’ve officially entered the (relatively) quiet portion of the offseason. Minicamps and OTAs will soon be here, but not yet. Same with the NFL schedule release. Chris, Mark, Warren, et al. have done the usual excellent job of covering where we stand. So, in the meantime, let’s have some fun with this ...2025
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• Free agents the Saints could still sign

Daniel Bartel-Imagn Images Some roster work needs to be done. Going into the 2025 NFL Draft with nine selections, the New Orleans Saints had many chances to address positions of need throughout the roster. They did this, but not at the expense of reaching too much, which is always a good way to select prospects. Still, some positions that were selected, such as linebacker, defensive tackle...2025
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• Jordan Travis Decision Accentuates Jets’ Draft Mistake

In a somewhat shocking development, 2024 New York Jets Draftee Jordan Travis retired from the NFL today. We all knew about the gruesome injury he suffered in November 2023, but perhaps the comebacks of Teddy Bridgewater, Alex Smith, and countless others in recent memory have desensitized us to the fact that these injuries are life-altering […] The post Jordan Travis Decision Accentuates Jets...2025
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• Brooks: J.J. McCarthy Is the Biggest “Wild Card” of 2025
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• Jordan Travis Decision Accentuates Jets’ Draft Mistake
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• 7 winners from the Detroit Lions’ 2025 NFL Draft

Photo by Brooke Sutton/Getty Images Bad news for some players can be good news for others. Here are 7 players that benefitted from the Detroit Lions’ 2025 NFL Draft. Things are not all doom and gloom for the Detroit Lions depth chart. While some players are at risk of losing a starting role or a roster spot, this post-draft period also highlights how beneficial the NFL Draft was for others...2025
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• How successful are quarterbacks drafted in Round 1?

Photo by Mike Carlson/Getty Images Here are the numbers since 2010, and they are not encouraging With the New York Giants still in the quarterback market, I am updating a series of posts I did last year looking at the success rates of quarterbacks drafted on Day 1, Day and Day 3 of the NFL Draft. Today, we look at Round 1. The bulk of this post appeared on Big Blue View prior to the 2024 N...2025
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• Lions GM Brad Holmes offers challenge to 2 third-year players

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Detroit Lions general manager had a message and a challenge for both Hendon Hooker and Brodric Martin. While Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes has had a stellar resume when it comes to his four draft classes, two third-round picks from the 2023 NFL Draft stand out as rare question marks: quarterback Hendon Hooker and defensive tackle Brodric Ma...2025
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• Open thread: What was the Lions’ worst draft pick under Brad Holmes?

Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images After looking at his best draft picks, time to look at the worst Detroit Lions picks under Brad Holmes. On Saturday, we talked about the best Detroit Lions draft picks under general manager Brad Holmes. It was a difficult conversation to have, because there are so many great answers. I landed on Amon-Ra St. Brown based on talent and what round he was taken...2025
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• 3 free agents the Cowboys could consider before the draft

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images There are still some free agents who the Cowboys could consider. The NFL draft is just over a month away, but the job is not finished for the Dallas Cowboys. The roster still needs more. It’s commendable that Dallas has been more active than usual during the early stages of free agency, albeit not for anyone at the top of the free market. Oh well, can’t have it a...2025
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• ESPN analyst believes Detroit Lions have had top-5 offseason, free agency

Photo by Al Pereira/Getty Images The Detroit Lions may not have made a ton of splashy free agency moves, but one ESPN writer believes they’ve been savvy with their spending. The Detroit Lions haven’t made a ton of free agency “winners” lists this offseason because of their modest spendings. They have only signed seven external free agents this offseason—only one of whom got a deal longer ...2025
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• Teddy Bridgewater surprises 6-year-old who invited him to his birthday party
Teddy Bridgewater surprises 6-year-old who invited him to his birthday party...2016
• Young fan sends birthday invite song to Vikings QB Bridgewater
A young fan made a video inviting Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to his birthday party....2016
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• NFL Week 17 Picks: The Falcons and Panthers Keep Southlandia Weird
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• NFL Week 10 Picks: Bears Divided, Cardinals United
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"He was one of the many players who Teddy Bridgewater worked out with in and out of the Lions’ training facility."

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"First-year coach Teddy Bridgewater led his alma mater, Miami Northwestern Senior High School, to the Class 3A Florida High School Athletic Association state title Saturday night."

2023
"Lions backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater says his career "played out the exact way it was meant," telling the Detroit Free Press that he plans to retire after the season."

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"Teddy Bridgewater to sign one-year deal with Dolphins to be Tua Tagovailoa's backup, per report"

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"'No finger-pointing, no negativity': After losing QB battle, Drew Lock vows to help Teddy Bridgewater, remain ready to lead Broncos"

2020
"On the same day that the Carolina Panthers gave Cam Newton permission to seek a trade, the team is working on details of a contract with free-agent quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, a source told ESPN."

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"Led by Teddy Bridgewater, these Saints also know how to have fun off the field."

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"Even with Teddy Bridgewater and Sam Bradford healthy, they can't walk away from the QB who has them on the cusp of their first Super Bowl in 40 years."

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"The Vikings’ rout was never in doubt, so much so they even had time for a Christmas-season feel-good moment, inserting backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater into the game with 10:38 remaining."

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"Teddy Bridgewater surprises 6-year-old who invited him to his birthday party"

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"Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater has been named the 2014 Pepsi NFL Rookie Of The Year, Pepsi and the NFL announced Friday night."

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"Also helping is that fact that rookie quarterbacks Blake Bortles, Derek Carr, Teddy Bridgewater and Johnny Manziel have failed to impress."

• What If: The Houston Texans drafted Derek Carr in 2014?
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• Brooks: J.J. McCarthy Is the Biggest “Wild Card” of 2025
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• Ranking the Heartbreaks
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• 7 winners from the Detroit Lions’ 2025 NFL Draft
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• Vikings Links: 12 Days Until The Draft

Photo by Jeffrey Vest/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Vikings roster is looking good already We have had a good discussion about the team needs for this draft this week. The leading vote receipient is Cornerback with Guard right behind. Oddly, Defensive Tackle is third in votes which reveals that the fans that visit this site really do believe in drafting for “need”. This is how the team ...2025
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• The Linc - ESPN says to “keep an eye” on these two potential Eagles first-round options

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 4/11/25. Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links ... 2025 NFL draft: Latest news, questions for all 32 team picks - ESPN+What we’re hearing about the Eagles’ draft: The Eagles are mostly content to let the board fall to them at No. 32, but they are prepared to move up if a prospect who’s high on...2025
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• 2025 NFL Draft preview: Could the Lions be in the market for a late QB?

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images Our 2025 Detroit Lions draft preview series begins with a look at the team’s need at quarterback. With the 2025 NFL Draft just about two weeks away, we’re kicking off a series assessing the Detroit Lions’ needs at each position. In addition to that, we’re going to look at the top available prospects at each position and a handful of mid-to-late round opt...2025
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• How successful are quarterbacks drafted in Round 1?
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• How the Cowboys upgraded at backup QB with Joe Milton

David Butler II-Imagn Images How the newly-added quarterback is just what the offense needed. When the Dallas Cowboys lost Cooper Rush to the Baltimore Ravens in free agency, it caught a few by surprise. Since joining the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2017, Rush has spent most of his career with the Cowboys with some memorable moments, like his win against the Minnesota Vikings in...2025
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• What If: The Houston Texans drafted Derek Carr in 2014?
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• Lions GM Brad Holmes offers challenge to 2 third-year players
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• ESPN analyst believes Detroit Lions have had top-5 offseason, free agency
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• Russell Wilson finds a new team: Browns options limited, NFL draft impact

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images NFL free agency continues to spin with Russell Wilson choosing between Giants, Browns, Steelers The Cleveland Browns might be stuck between a rock and a Kenny Pickett when it comes to who their starting quarterback is in Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season. The Browns started the offseason with a few options that seemed to make sense, but most are now off the b...2025
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• FILM | Dolphins see ‘untapped potential’ in QB Zach Wilson and I do too

Photo by Mike Carlson/Getty Images Zach Wilson is now Miami’s QB2, but is it enough to overcome Tua Tagovailoa’s inevitable injuries? Let’s check out the tape! #FinsUp For two consecutive seasons, I frantically wrote up my thoughts on the players I’d like to see the Miami Dolphins sign most in free agency. And for the second straight year, a young gunslinger named Zach Wilson made my list...2025
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• 2025 Detroit Lions free agency preview: 3 quarterbacks options

Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images With the NFL Combine in the books, it’s time to shift focus to free agency. The tampering period is just a week away, opening on March 10 at 12 p.m. ET. So we’re kicking off a series to preview each position and potential signings that may fit the Detroit Lions’ needs. The Lions already have three quarterbacks rostered heading into the 2025 offseason, but outside...2025
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• Detroit Lions 2024 season stock report: Risers, fallers on offense

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Check out your 2024 movers on offense in the Detroit Lions year-end stock report. With the Detroit Lions’ 2024 season over, it’s time to look back on your biggest movers from this year. You can check out the season stock report for defense and special teams here. Let’s dive in: Stock up: Jameson Williams, WR Stats: 58 rec, 1,001 yards, 7 TD; 11 rushes, 61 ya...2025
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• 2025 Lions free agent profile: Marcus Davenport

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images Another injury claimed the potential of Marcus Davenport breaking out, but is there room for a reunion next season? Our 2025 Detroit Lions free agent series continues. We’re breaking down each and every single decision the team must make with their pending free agent class ahead of this offseason including what their expectations were coming into the 20...2025
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• Lions free agent profile: How big will Levi Onwuzurike’s payday be?

David Reginek-Imagn Images Evaluating how Levi Onwuzurike’s 2024 season made him a coveted free agent The defining narrative of the Detroit Lions’ 2024 defense will undoubtedly be the wave of injuries that swept through the unit. However, one bright spot was Levi Onwuzurike, who—aside from Jack Campbell—proved to be the most consistently available front-seven player all season. The second ...2025
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• 7 winners from the Detroit Lions’ 2025 NFL Draft
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• How the Cowboys upgraded at backup QB with Joe Milton
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• Detroit Lions 2024 season stock report: Risers, fallers on offense
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• 2025 Lions free agent profile: Marcus Davenport
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• Lions free agent profile: Pat O’Connor has a leg up to re-sign

Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Detroit Lions veteran defensive lineman Pat O’Connor is facing free agency, but there are a few factors working in his favor to return. It would probably surprise many Detroit Lions fans to know that veteran defensive tackle Pat O’Connor was a seventh-round draft pick by the Detroit Lions in 2017. Though he had a decent preseason as a rookie out of East...2025
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• 2024 Lions free agent profile: What’s next for Teddy Bridgewater?

Photo by Brooke Sutton/Getty Images Does Teddy Bridgewater still have a future in the NFL—as a player or a coach? There is one Detroit Lions upcoming free agent that we can be certain the team will not be re-signing in March. That is the incomparable Teddy Bridgewater. Now that the veteran quarterback is nearing the end of his playing days, Bridgewater is chasing his passion of community...2025
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• Horse Tracks: Broncos fans have one job this week — ‘Fly Eagles Fly!’

Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images Under no circumstances should Broncos Country be rooting for — or OK with — Chiefs winning the Super Bowl Good morning, Broncos Country! Super Bowl Week is upon us, and there is really only one thing Broncos fans should be doing this week... A week from todayRevenge pic.twitter.com/lA9bON1Hsj— It'sAPhillyThing (@EaglesStrictly) February 2, 2025 Ac...2025
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• Former Lions WR follows Ben Johnson to Chicago Bears

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images A Detroit Lions wide receiver who played four games in 2024 is following Ben Johnson to the Chicago Bears. Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Maurice Alexander has signed a futures deal with the Chicago Bears, according to NFL’s transaction wire. Maurice will reunite with former Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, who became the Bears head coach l...2025
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• Teddy Bridgewater wins Pepsi Rookie of the Year award
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• Why Odell Beckham Jr. Is the Runaway Offensive Rookie of the Year
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• Raiders Have Their QB of the Future in Derek Carr
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• Panthers near Bridgewater deal; Cam unhappy
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• Panthers give Bridgewater $63M deal; Cam irked
The Panthers are giving free agent quarterback Teddy Bridgewater a three-year, $63 million deal, a source tells ESPN's Adam Schefter....2020
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• Vikings QB Teddy Bridgewater Surprises Fan by Taking Her to Prom
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• Browns player: Think where we'd be with Bridgewater
Some Browns players remain skeptical about Johnny Manziel's potential as an NFL quarterback. One player wondered to a teammate in December how different things would be with Teddy Bridgewater in tow....2015
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• 2020 NFL free agency: Ranking Teddy Bridgewater landing spots after Drew Brees announces his 2020 return
Bridgewater should have plenty of suitors, assuming he doesn't return to New Orleans...2020
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• Vikings coach blames criticism of Teddy Bridgewater on fantasy football
Teddy Bridgewater's lack of praise is apparently due to fantasy football....2016
• Mike Zimmer dismisses Teddy Bridgewater criticism
Critics tend to nitpick Teddy Bridgewater because the Minnesota Vikings quarterback lacks the obvious physical tools of other NFL signal-callers. Coach Mike Zimmer dismissed those hot takes as a product of the fantasy football mentality....2016
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• Monday Morning Hangover: Brock Osweiler's Time Is Now
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• Monday Morning Hangover: Chip Kelly's Good Ideas Have Gone Bad for Eagles
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• Revamped 49ers Look Like Surprise Playoff Contenders Behind Stellar Carlos Hyde
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• Mike Tanier's Monday Morning Hangover: Attack of the Zombie Quarterbacks
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• Mike Tanier's Monday Morning Hangover: Teams Need More Than Playoff Miracles
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• San Francisco 49ers' Most Important Matchups Against Washington in Week 12
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• Mike Tanier's Monday Morning Hangover: Same Old Sanchez, New Drew Stanton?
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• NFL Week 7 Picks: Cowboys Are Surging, but Broncos Are Leading the Polls
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• What If: The Houston Texans drafted Derek Carr in 2014?
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• Free agents the Saints could still sign
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• Jordan Travis Decision Accentuates Jets’ Draft Mistake
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• Around SB Nation: More women accuse Justin Tucker of sexual misconduct

Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images 16 massage therapists have accused Tucker of engaging in inappropriate sexual behavior. Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker who many consider to be one of the best kickers of all time, had his worst season as a professional this past year. After a down year, his life has only gotten worse as sixteen massage therapists have accused him of sexual misconduct....2025
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• 9 Detroit Lions cap casualty candidates for the 2025 offseason

Photo by Mike Mulholland/Getty Images These nine Detroit Lions players under contract in 2025 could see their deals terminated to save salary cap room. The Detroit Lions have a sizeable list of pending free agents, but before any of those names ink a new contract in Detroit or elsewhere, we could see a player or two get their existing deals axed. Cap causalities are an unfortunate yet imp...2025
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• Lions-49ers snap counts: Jalen Reeves-Maybin returns for largest role of season

Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images A look at how the Detroit Lions deployed their snaps against the San Francisco 49ers in Week 17. Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell opened Week 17 by declaring that they would not rest their starters, regardless of the playoff implications associated with their game against the San Francisco 49ers. Campbell stood true to his word—and logically explained wh...2024
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• Teddy Bridgewater on free agency: I don’t make decisions with my heart
At this time last year, there was speculation about where quarterback Teddy Bridgewater might wind up as a free agent but he wound up re-signing with the Saints to back up Drew Brees. It was just a one-year deal, which means that there is once again chatter about what’s next. This year’s outlook is a [more]...2020
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