{"id":38661,"date":"2017-05-25T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38661"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T21:44:40","slug":"teddy-bridgewater-returns-to-vikings-otas-sparking-more-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/25\/teddy-bridgewater-returns-to-vikings-otas-sparking-more-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Bridgewater returns to Vikings OTAs, sparking more questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/>To the surprise and delight of many Vikings fans, the team posted a short video to their social media accounts on Tuesday afternoon, showing quarterback Teddy Bridgewater taking part in some passing drills at the Vikings&#8217; first organized team activity session at Winter Park:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey Teddy! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5oYidcHyWQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/5oYidcHyWQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IxRQgbwuIa\">pic.twitter.com\/IxRQgbwuIa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vikings\/status\/867137902559539200\">May 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>For the record, count me among the delighted, as I&#8217;ve been a Bridgewater fan since he was drafted by the team at the end of the first round in 2014. I don&#8217;t dislike Sam Bradford, and I&#8217;m grateful the team was able to trade for him, but I hope Bridgewater fully recovers from his injury and is able to return to the starting role at some point (preferably sooner rather than later).<\/p>\n<p>1500ESPN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1500espn.com\/vikings-2\/2017\/05\/zulgad-make-teddy-bridgewater-working-vikings-otas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Judd Zulgad<\/a> wonders what we&#8217;re expected to take away from the clip:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What type of message are the Vikings attempting to convey?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s impossible to tell because the video is only accompanied with dramatic music. There also are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vikings.com\/media-vault\/photo-gallery\/Bridgewater-Continues-Rehab-at-Winter-Park\/24a52d26-b745-4323-8649-96462ac4091c?sf81299084=1#5221d760-fafc-458a-9e71-414b2c4323bb\" target=\"_blank\">three photos<\/a> of Bridgewater going through practice that were posted on the Vikings\u2019 web site and a brief recap provides no quotes from Bridgewater or anyone else involved with the organization.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings\u2019 will go through another OTA workout on Wednesday, although unlike with Tuesday\u2019s session, the media will be allowed in for this one. Zimmer, who is taking time off and returned to his Kentucky home after undergoing an eighth surgery on his eye last week, will not be present.<\/p>\n<p>This means offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur will be in charge of answering the many Bridgewater-related questions that are sure to be asked.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no guarantee there will be any answers provided considering the Vikings\u2019 football operations department and their social media folks have very different agendas. The former wants to win football games and likes to keep information in-house, while the latter is after web hits.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt those hits were numerous on Tuesday. As for how much we should read into what this video means about Bridgewater\u2019s recovery? That is likely to remain a mystery, at least to those outside of Winter Park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At Wednesday&#8217;s second OTA practice, general manager Rick Spielman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/vikings\/424083473.html\" target=\"_blank\">discussed Bridgewater&#8217;s progress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spielman said it was \u201cvery encouraging\u201d to see Bridgewater, who has been throwing to receivers here for at least a few weeks, take the next step by tossing passes at an official organized practice, though he stressed that Bridgewater is still not technically practicing with the team. \u201cPart of the rehab process you saw yesterday was that he is able to drop back and throw the ball,\u201d Spielman said. \u201cHe is not cleared for practice, so I want to make that perfectly clear. But he\u2019s working extremely hard in his rehab and we\u2019ll continue to monitor his progress.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Spielman, as he has done all offseason, declined to share whether the 24-year-old is ahead of schedule in his recovery, only saying, \u201cHe\u2019s very limited in what he\u2019s able to do at this point, but it\u2019s progress.\u201d He would not say if Bridgewater might be cleared by the start of training camp, which kicks off a couple of months from now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later in the day, it was announced that Bridgewater has been given medical clearance to move on to his next phase of rehabilitation:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vikings?src=hash\">#Vikings<\/a> QB Teddy Bridgewater had a positive visit to his doc in Dallas, sources say. He got the \ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udffc to progress in rehab &amp; move side-to-side<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/867465205290283010\">May 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the surprise and delight of many Vikings fans, the team posted a short video to their social media accounts on Tuesday afternoon, showing quarterback Teddy Bridgewater taking part in some passing drills at the Vikings&#8217; first organized team activity session at Winter Park: Hey Teddy! https:\/\/t.co\/5oYidcHyWQ pic.twitter.com\/IxRQgbwuIa &mdash; Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) May 23, 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[126,179,962],"class_list":["post-38661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl","tag-teddybridgewater"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a3z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38668,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38661\/revisions\/38668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}