{"id":149574,"date":"2025-08-16T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149574\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:08:11","slug":"teddy-bridgewater-its-very-upsetting-im-playing-instead-of-coaching-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149574\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Bridgewater: It&#8217;s &#8220;very upsetting&#8221; I&#8217;m playing instead of coaching right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buccaneers backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater wishes he weren\u2019t in the NFL right now.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater signed with the Buccaneers only after he was suspended from Miami Northwestern High School for what Florida high school officials call improper benefits to players and he calls simply trying to help out kids who needed help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tampa-bay-buccaneers-teddy-bridgewater-nfl-7b281be1dbcb4e7c960fd49cb8e481cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">It\u2019s very upsetting<\/a>,\u201d Bridgewater said, via the Associated Press. \u201cJust knowing that you have good intentions and those good intentions will be turned against you and used against you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater still wants to coach the team again in the future, even if that\u2019s not going to happen this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping to get it resolved because those kids have a special place in my heart,\u201d Bridgewater said. \u201cAnd I\u2019d love to finish what I started with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater was a volunteer coach and will make more than $1 million this season with the Bucs, but he\u2019d rather be coaching anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can make a ton of money playing football,\u201d Bridgewater said. \u201cCoaching high school ball, I get nothing. But it\u2019s not even about the money. It\u2019s about giving those kids a building block to go out into the real world and be productive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coaching high school may be in Bridgewater\u2019s future, but for this year, he\u2019s back in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buccaneers backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater wishes he weren\u2019t in the NFL right now. Bridgewater signed with the Buccaneers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-149574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115036481384315392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}