WEBVTT - Welcome to Miami Teddy Bridgewater 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.360 To us Fires touch style by Wattle stuck into the 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.440 end zone of Miami Boy, tight froll, tight window. They 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.760 had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.280 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.599 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:28.040 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.720 Travis Wingfield And on today's show, it's a free agency special. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.320 We're talking to quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. We'll break down his 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.360 game and get him on the podcast here to talk 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.040 some football and his decision to join the Miami Dolphins 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.760 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Trading Complex. 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:54.600 This is the Drive Time Podcast Dolphins. So free agency 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.760 is underway and we have a signing to discuss here 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:02.640 in quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, who comes over to Miami after 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.000 one year with the Denver Broncos following one year with 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.679 the Carolina Panthers. He was with the Saints prior to that, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.160 and of course he began his career back in with 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.800 the Minnesota Vikings and we all know about the injury 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.280 that led to his movement to the Jets in the 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:22.000 preseason that season, eventually to the Saints, where he spent 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.800 two years, and then the Panthers and Broncos last year 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.600 with the Broncos seven and seven as a starter. He 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.759 is thirty three and thirty in his career as a starter, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.160 so he has a total of seventy three games played 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.920 sixty three games started for the former first round pick. 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.560 And he came from this talent pool that we all 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.520 know and love here in South Florida, and he's coming 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.160 right back to where his football career began. Now. I 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.600 think you can make a real strong case that Teddy 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.440 Bridgewater is the best quarterback to play his prep football 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.800 in the city of Miami, as he entered his senior 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.520 season at a powerhouse Northwestern High School as the top 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.440 the top ranked quarterback in the state of Florida, and 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.400 he continued that ascent through the football world with a 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:10.360 tremendous career at the University of Louisville before being selected 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.239 in the first round the thirty second pick by the 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.480 Minnesota Vikings in two thousand and fourteen. And I think 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.320 one of the best parts of this Teddy Bridgewater Miami 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.280 reunion is that you look back over his professional career, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.280 and he has spent a lot of time and effort 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.880 into giving back to the community here, even when his 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.480 career was elsewhere, like for instance, back in twenty nineteen 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.960 with the Saints, they had won a game on Thursday 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.880 Night football, and so Teddy was down for the weekend 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.640 at Northwestern High School to watch a big semi final 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.880 playoff game in the state playoffs against Jesuit, the rival, 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.120 one of the rivals down here in South Florida, and 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.640 Bridgewater paid for a whole bunch of food trucks to 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.720 come and feed the players and coaches and auxiliary staff 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.280 after that big victory, and just you look at what 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.320 we do with football units here, all the work in 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.000 the South Florida community. He's gonna fit right in with 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.000 that and be such a good stable in this community. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.680 As the food truck splurge was really far from the 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.720 first act of generosity, because he has also organized toy 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.480 drive school supply drives and also had that phenomenal viral 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.120 video a couple of years back where the dance team 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.400 is kind of doing this like lean back, march up 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.200 the sideline, and sure enough the last person in lines 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:28.040 Teddy Bridgewater, joining along and that went crazy across social media, 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.440 just viral across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, all that fun stuff. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.520 So a great guy to have in the community and 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.000 also a winner and productive player. And you know, I 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.560 go back to something that Mike McDaniel mentioned at the 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:45.920 podium of his Scouting combine UH media availability earlier this month, 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.280 where he laid out pretty transparent expectations for a number 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.440 two quarterback, where he said, quote, when you're looking for 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.200 a number two quarterback, there's two things. You want him 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.400 to benefit the starting quarterback while the starting quarterback is 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.800 the starting quarterback, and in how are him with how 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.160 they approached their daily game plan responsibilities, how they developed 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.760 when they're training in the offseason. But you also want 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.080 a guy who can win games should the starter go down. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.520 So a veteran backup is definitely in our discussions, he mentioned, 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.120 But it's best, but it's the best player that we 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.760 can find, whatever avenue and move forward from there. And 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.560 Bridgewater was number thirty four on the original Top one 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.280 one free agents list on NFL dot com, so and 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.560 the highest rated quarterback on that list too, So I 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.240 think you pretty well checked that box. And whether it's 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.559 a starter or backup, the market just did not offer 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.000 a better veteran solution than Bridgewater mentioned thirty four. Overall, 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.679 he was the twelve highest rated passer in the National 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.520 Football League one, with a ninety four point nine passer rating. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.080 He plays a very smart brand of football that limits 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.360 turnovers and moves the offense in an efficient way. That's 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.880 evident by his eight teen touchdowns compared to just seven 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.359 picks last year with the Denver Broncos in those fourteen games, 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.000 and in those fourteen games, the Broncos were seven and seven. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.279 In twenty nineteen, Bridgewater was the backup to Drew Brees 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.919 in New Orleans, and when Breeze went down with an 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.080 injury that year and was shelved for five games, Bridgewater 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.960 steered the float. I put float there because that great 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.960 Drew Brees commercial, the ESPN one where he stuck at 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.760 the gate and can't get in with his Marty Graff float. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.920 He steered the float to a perfect five and oh mark, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.160 throwing nine touchdowns and just two picks in those five games. 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.320 He's also a locker room favorite. Drew Brees mentioned this 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.400 of Teddy when he signed with the Broncos last year, saying, quote, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.960 first off I'm a big fan of Teddy Bridgewater. I 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.479 think he's brought some leadership and some mock moxie to 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.239 the Broncos offense and a great skill set as well, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.320 And just kind of looking around the web, there's all 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.760 kinds of really great accounts of Teddy Bridgewater proving to 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.440 be a great teammate. Like one instance, last season, Justin Simmons, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.240 the All Pro safety of the Broncos, they had won 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.359 a big game. He went and did an interview off 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.120 to the side and missed the prayer group at the 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.120 middle of the field after the game that you often 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.600 see on NFL fields, And he ran back and was like, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.240 I'm worried about missing the postgame prayer in the middle 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.400 of the field, And sure enough, one guy waited for 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.200 him to to make sure he could get that prayer 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.719 and with somebody else, and there it was Teddy Bridgewater. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.920 He put that story up on Instagram and it went 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.560 viral with like thirty five thousand likes on i G 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.760 that I saw, and I'm sure it did numbers across 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.279 Twitter and Facebook as well. So he's got your back. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:22.920 As a kind of the way of saying that, right, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.640 There also a very cool common collected customer. We talked 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.920 about the seventy three games of experience that he has 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.400 and the benefit that can have for the quarterback room. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.880 You know, accurate quarterback since coming into the league, and 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.440 it's only improved with age. Since twenty nineteen, Bridgewater has 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.320 completed sixty eight percent of his passes with an interception 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.520 rate of just one point seven per cent, So there's 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.320 the kind of calming factor there. And then when under 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:51.920 pressure through Pro Football Focus, Bridgewater through seven touchdown passes 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.440 compared to just one pick, and the numbers against the 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.479 Blitz were even better. So you send a fifth or 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.960 sixth extra rushers more than four rushers against those looks. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.920 Last year, Bridgewater seventy three point nine percent completion, eight 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.000 point nine yards per past, nine touchdowns and just two 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:12.120 interceptions when the defense brought a fifth or six rushers 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.800 at Teddy Bridgewater. And then, finally, it wouldn't be a 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.960 Teddy Bridgewater podcast without talking about the kind of route 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.440 that his football career took from first round pick too 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.320 high upside. You saw the trajectory of his career with 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.000 Minnesota kind of climbing up and up and up, and 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.320 then he has that training camp injury that really shook 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.000 up the Vikings quarterback situations back then and Teddy Bridgewater's 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:36.360 career there for a couple of years. I mean, he 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.240 didn't play that season, didn't play the following season, besides 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.240 a couple of snaps I think late in that year. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.120 And you saw Minnesota with Sam Bradford and case Keenum 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.160 and they had to find a solution because Teddy was 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.560 their guy, and all of a sudden they didn't have him. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.040 And you know, football comes with this inherent risk that 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.720 all players must assume, but for Bridgewater, it was like 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.800 the most innocuous of moments that led to one of 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.240 the most discussed injuries in recent memory, a non contact 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:07.119 injury that just left bystanders like in shock and awe. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.440 Even Teddy Bridgewater surgeon said that he was horrified about 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.280 the knee injury he saw there, So you know, it 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.920 was a a setback moment. And Teddy has come back 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.200 so well from that, throwing forty three touchdowns and winning 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.600 sixteen games as he starting quarterback since that injury, So 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.000 really really good addition here to the Dolphins quarterback room 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.720 in Teddy Bridgewater coming home, the work in the community, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.520 the work under pressure as a quarterback. The work with 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.400 the accuracy and the placement of the football just a 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.960 really good addition here to the Dolphins quarterback room. And 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.280 we'll go ahead and take our first break here on 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.920 the Teddy Bridgewater podcast on Drivetime, and next will welcome 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.480 Teddy Bridgewater into the Drivetime studios here at the Miami 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.800 Dolphins Baptist Health Training Complex here in Miami Gardens. Up 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:56.520 next Drivetime podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. What's up? Dolphins? 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.040 Travis Wingfield here the host of the Drivetime podcast, and 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.200 I'm joined by New Dolls quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. Teddy, You're 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.360 back home, man, that's gotta feel great. Yeah, man, it's 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:08.120 a great feeling. I'm excited to beeback um looking forward 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.040 to us and store for tomorrow. So I heard you 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.920 brought your own pen for the signing. Was a big 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.920 big part of that for you? Yeah, I mean she 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.040 has always got to be prepared, man, absolutely. Yeah. Do 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.760 you have your own mic as well? Just messing around 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.800 so you know your Miami kid coming back home here. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.920 I gotta ask you, what's your what's your Miami go 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.040 to the first thing that after this day and all 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.240 the responsibilities here with the within the building are done. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.920 What's the first thing you want to go do? Um, Man, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.199 I haven't even thought about that, you know. Um, I'm 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.560 here in the moment right now, man, embracing all of this, 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.000 taking all in one minute at a time, and I'm 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.440 enjoying just everything that today is brought to me. So, 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.640 you've been in a lot of NFL quarterback rooms across 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.400 your college career back to high school, obviously a lot 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.560 of experience. One thing coach McDaniel mentioned in his media 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.240 was that a quarterback's role is to not just provide 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.679 production on the football field, but also serve the rest 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.320 of the room and of course the rest the team 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.079 as well. How do you think your role as a 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.120 quarterback and kind of serving to and the rest of 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.880 the quarterback room fits in here in Miami. Um, It's 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.840 just who I am, man. It's my nature of just 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.960 doing everything I can to help the team, whether I'm 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.840 out there plan or if I'm not out there planing. Um. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.880 We all have a job to do, you know, and 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.360 I always believe that. Man. It's my my job to 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.120 execute my role with my job, you know, to the 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.400 best of my ability. So, speaking of that kind of 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.960 quarterback brotherhood. It's always you know, a unique element of 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:31.679 the football field. Right. There's only like a hundred or 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.080 so of you guys in the National Football League, and 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.719 in that kind of limited space, you guys have experiences 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.480 that not a lot of people can relate to. So 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.480 how do you kind of in this high stress, high 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.800 stakes environment, how can you positively impact to ah in 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:50.600 that quarterback room? Um? Honestly, man, it just starts with 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.840 the mindset. Um, you know, as I get to know 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.320 Tour on this journey, you know, in this chapter of 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.319 my life, my career, I'm pretty sure I'll find out 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.320 some things about him that drives him. And you know, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.600 how can you you help, you know, a person use 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.960 the things that drive them to keep them going even further. Um. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.720 I think that's one of my unique abilities is to 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.760 be able to you know, dive within and and and 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.480 get to know people and understand, you know, there why 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.720 and help them really, you know, move forward towards the why. 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.880 He's not the only person you know here on the 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.679 roster obviously a former Louisville teammate, Davanta Parker, how you 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.400 how excited you to reunite with DVP out here. Oh man, 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:38.080 that's a new nickname to me, dvpe it. But now 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.000 I'm excited, man. You know he's probably sitting somebody watching 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.240 SpongeBob even both a cereal or something. But uh no, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.439 I'm excited, man um, just to to get to work 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:55.040 man with you know, the different guys on this this roster. Um, 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.800 there's some some great talent. Um you're bringing his coaching staff, 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.560 a great group of which is who know how to 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.040 utilize guys screens and their ability. So I'm excited for No, 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.120 what's the store for this team? So I mentioned earlier 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.559 your experience in the National Football like tons of organizations 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.840 across the league, tons of football and just a bunch 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.000 of experiences that you've you know, ups and downs and 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.440 that that that's how football careers go, right, adversity and 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.600 overcoming it. If there's one thing you've taken away from 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.360 your entire football career, what do you think that would be? 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:26.320 Oh man, that's a that's a good question. Um. Thank 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:31.440 you Now for me, man Um, it's knowing how to 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.240 turn it on and turn it off. Um. And I'm 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.240 not talking about when you you step on the field 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.520 and step off the field, like knowing how to turn 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.720 it on for a player too. Really understanding who you 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:46.720 are man, um in society. Um, I think oftentimes man, 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:51.120 because we're we're number five or number ten on Sundays, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.920 we think we're that person seven. And you got to 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.360 know how to disconnect, man, the your career from who 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.480 you are in society and think that's what's really helped me, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.839 you know, continue to be real with myself and understand, 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.880 you know, my my purpose because you know, football has 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.240 been great to me. Is opened so many doors for me, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.120 and it's giving me opportunities to impact so many people. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.160 And then when I take the jersey off and I 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.280 see that, hey man, people still genuinely love me. Man. Uh, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.560 it really made me have a different view on life itself. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.480 When you say disconnected, reminds me of that viral video 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.160 of you on with the with the cheerleaders and school 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.800 doing the walk there that was kind of part of that. Yeah, man, 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.559 you know, Uh, at the end of the day, Man, 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.679 I tell people all the time, you know, we're rock 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.440 stars and superstars with heroes or whoever we want to 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.320 be for during a half hours on Sundays, you know, 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.360 in the fall and um, once you step outside of 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.559 those lines, man, we go back to the reality and 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.800 we still can make an impact, you know, in life, 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.120 you know, outside of the game. And um that's all 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.319 I try to do. Speaking to viral moments, there was 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.840 a moment last season in Denver with Justin Simmons, your 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.520 teammate there with the Broncos, who went into the postgame 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.680 interview and then he was looking for the prayer circle 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.439 afterwards and he found you at midfield. He shared that 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.880 story on Instagram and it winds up going viral. Can 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.360 you talk to talk to us about that moment and 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.160 kind of why that was important to you? Yeah, just 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.319 after the games, man, we you know, we meet up 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.320 on the fifth of our team and our opponents and 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.760 we just pray, and you know because at the end 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.240 of the day, man, you know, we give all glory 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.800 to God because he makes all things possible when we're 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.080 out there. But um, I knew that Justin was busy 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.520 doing his postgame interview and I knew that he was 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.600 a part of the circle. After every game when we 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.160 would pray, and the prayer we tried to wait. We 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.760 tried to wait, and uh, you know the way team 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.600 usually had to hurry back to the locker room and 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.600 things like that. And I just wanted to wait for 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.600 Justin because I knew, you know how much he's a 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.080 god fair man, just like myself. And I knew that, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.520 you know, the prayer meant something to him. You know, 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.640 it gives you closure, you know, on that game on 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.240 that day sometimes, and um, it was just great to 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.600 share that moment. It was great to know that it 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.600 really meant a lot to him, you know, me being 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.080 there with him in that moment. So you've made positive 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.840 impacts really every stop you've been around the National Football League, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.320 but you continue to do work in the South Florida community, 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.160 even when you were in Denver, in New Orleans across 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.520 the league and just reading about that, you know why 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.120 is giving back to the South Florida community so important 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.920 to you? Uh? Man, it's it's for one is home. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.040 But um, also I always tell people, man, um, when 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:29.000 I was younger, Um, the ones who did a lot 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.840 in the community were aren't really the ideal people. And um, 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.400 you know, we had so many guys from South Florida 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.200 who went off to have careers on a professional level, 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.720 and sometimes you didn't really see him, you know, you 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.440 only saw him on the TV, and UM, I always 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.400 want the people to see me in the flesh. I 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.920 understand that I am accessible. Um, I'm not just a 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.160 guy you see on TV. I'm from the same I 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.160 walked down the same sidewalks, visit the same corner stores 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.920 buying snacks. So it means that much to me, just 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.640 you know, because I was once you know, and in 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.400 the next child shoes um years ago, so um, and 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.760 they still motivate me to this day. I tell everyone 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.080 a story about when I was injured and my sister, 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:17.800 she lived down in a little Haiti, and we were 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:19.520 just sitting outside and one of the young kids, he 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.000 was about eleven years old at the time, and because 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.320 I was injured, he was piste off. He was like, man, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.160 you suck man, He's supposed to be out there. How 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.760 you get hurt? And of course I was like, man, yeah, 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.080 you know, but you know, it really hit home, like, man, 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.400 it really means something, you know when I'm out there, 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.240 that I'm really making an impact, you know, when I'm 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.360 out on a football fielding, and it just you know, 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.600 gave me a chip on my shoulder to really try 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.880 to overcome what I was going through. You mentioned the injury. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:47.880 What did you ultimately take away from that? Because you 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.440 came back and you've had some good numbers one a 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.960 lot of football games after that injury win. You know, 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.080 it was a moment where people were worried about your 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:55.880 long term prognosis and here you are back with the 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.160 Miami Dolphins and a long NFL career. What did you 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:02.360 take away from that entire process? Um, I found my 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.399 purpose in life, you know, And um, that was that 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.960 was the biggest thing I took away. But I also 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.080 realized that, um, you know, I've come from a fighting DNA. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:16.720 My mom she's a breast cancer survivor, and um, everything 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.960 that I went through with my injury, I pretty much 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.239 applied what I learned from watching her to go through 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.640 what she went through with breast cancter. She never you know, frowned, 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.680 She never you know was down. She continued to smile 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.560 through it all. And you know, that was like big 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.720 for me. You know, I was fourteen fifteen years old 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.119 at the time and thinking, Okay, my mom has breast cancer, 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.800 what's next, you know, thinking all the worst things possible, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.440 and um, and she stayed positives, kept helping people. She's 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.440 had such a big heart. So when I was injured, 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.320 I was like, man, my mom went through something ten 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.120 times worse, you know, and it's like, I can't frown 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.040 about it. I can't be sad. She didn't, you know, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.399 frown be sad. So that was one of the biggest 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.280 takeaways that, you know, I come from a fighting DNA. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.280 I have to guess mom is gonna have season tickets 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.480 this year, and I don't know because she actually lives 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.840 in South Carolina. So I joke with it other day though, 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.000 I said, Man, everyone saying you're probably gonna move back 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.520 to South Florida now that you know I'm coming home. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.200 So so I had to I had to ask you, 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.200 south Ford, the humidity, you know the weather very well, 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.480 But our gloves going to be part of the Teddy 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.040 Bridgewater experience? Yeah, yeah, they don't be a part of 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.480 the experience for sure. I had to ask it, had 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.600 to ask it. So as you look to your career 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.000 here with the Miami Dolphins and starting this new chapter here, 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.080 what's the ultimate thing that Dolphins are gonna get with 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.560 Teddy Bridgwater as a player, as a person, Man, m 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.680 just gonna get a guy who wants to compete, you know, compete, 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.479 you know as a player and as a as a 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.040 man in society. Um, you know every day that I 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:41.600 wake up in my feet hit the ground. I hit 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:43.520 the ground running because I'm thankful that I get an 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.359 opportunity to make an impact in the world. And um, 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.320 I saw what I want to continue to do. Very good. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.439 So on you from you, Teddy. Teddy Bridgewater, Dolphins quarterback, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.640 Thanks a lot man, Thank you. 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