{"id":65695,"date":"2025-07-14T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65695\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:49:12","slug":"teddy-bridgewater-suspended-from-miami-northwestern-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65695\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Bridgewater suspended from Miami Northwestern coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 14, 2025, 02:07 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Former NFL quarterback <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/16728\/teddy-bridgewater\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teddy Bridgewater<\/a> has been suspended from his position as a high school football coach in Miami for allegedly providing impermissible benefits to his players.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater, 32, confirmed his suspension by Miami Northwestern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/teddy.bridgewater.262046\/posts\/pfbid0tRFWJM3yQ1hSvWa1Ggc427mMkSRjw7t4YGFgPj5JvLzfyfHdbavwfkTwER3nJEa4l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a Facebook post Sunday<\/a> but said he remains committed to his alma mater.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suspension came from MNW and it&#8217;s impossible to suspend someone who doesn&#8217;t work for you. So if im suspended from MNW im free to go to another school of my choice but IM NOT GOING ANYWHERE.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if it comes down to it, I will volunteer from the bleachers like I used to in 2018 and 2019 when no one had a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/42976861\/new-coach-teddy-bridgewater-leads-miami-northwestern-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">led Miami Northwestern to a Class 3A state championship<\/a> in his first season as the coach in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to the NFL in December to serve as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3046779\/jared-goff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Goff<\/a>&#8216;s backup with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a> but did not appear in a regular-season game. In the playoffs, he completed his only pass attempt for 3 yards in a 45-31 loss against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-commanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Commanders<\/a> in the divisional round.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/teddy.bridgewater.262046\/posts\/pfbid0zBDDzzGso6sHMrX9bnunG5to86yG9qGr1bhvLvTRdmBsnSnw1WqkAXqZMCv7towBl?mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;rdid=glxnOWhVJZ6a7PVo#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted earlier this month on Facebook<\/a> that he paid for Uber rides, meals and recovery services for his players last season. He asked fans to donate to help cover such expenses this year.<\/p>\n<p>He said in the post confirming his suspension that he self-reported the payments to Miami Northwestern.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida High School Athletic Association confirmed to Rivals on Monday that it is gathering more information.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater played for six NFL teams from 2014-24, compiling a 33-32 record with 15,120 passing yards and 75 touchdowns. He made the Pro Bowl after an 11-5 season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-vikings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Field Level Media contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 14, 2025, 02:07 PM ET Former NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater has been suspended from his position as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-65695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114853325275228571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65695","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=65695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}