Former NFL QB Teddy Bridgewater coaches alma mater to Florida high school state championship in 1st season

Teddy Bridgewater’s best NFL season was 2020 with the Carolina Panthers, when he passed for 3,733 yards and 15 touchdowns. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

Former NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater won a Florida high school state championship on Saturday in his first season as a head coach.

Coaching his alma mater, Miami Northwestern, Bridgewater’s team won 41–0 over previously undefeated Jacksonville Raines in the Class 3A state championship game at Miami’s Pitbull Stadium (on the Florida International campus).

The Bulls finished their season 12–2, outscoring opponents in five playoff games by a combined score of 262–12 on the way to their first state title since 2019. Bridgewater’s team scored at least 40 points in each of those games, winning four of them by shutout.

Miami Northwestern went 4–6 the previous season. Beginning this season 2–2, the Bulls went on to win 10 consecutive games.

“Those kids deserve it,” Bridgewater said, via USA Today. “Those kids stuck with us since February, they trusted the process.”

“We just told them, ‘You stay together. You can walk this walk together for the rest of your lives if you win this game,'” he added. “They won it. Ten years from now, when we have practice on Thanksgiving, they’ll come back and reminisce.”

Bridgewater, 32, retired after in February, finishing 10 years in the NFL as the backup QB for the Detroit Lions. During his nine seasons, he also played for the Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins.

In his NFL career, Bridgewater threw for 15,120 yards and 75 touchdowns in 79 games (65 starts). He was the Vikings’ first-round selection (No. 32 overall) out of Louisville.

Teddy Bridgewater hasn’t gotten enough credit for what he showed during the Broncos touchdown drive at the end of the first half.

The 5 throws to seal it were money. pic.twitter.com/Qa1MOPe942

— Joe Rowles (@JoRo_NFL) September 15, 2021

He got to work with Miami Northwestern right…

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Publish date : 2024-12-15 17:53:00

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