Teddy Bridgewater on his way to being a franchise face

[kungfoodude]

4 minutes ago, Tepper’s Used Car Lot said:

I know that - using it as an example that a ridiculously small sample size isn't enough to hang our hats on. Teddy is an unknown.

I would say Teddy is much more of a known than an unknown at this point in time. We've seen him have some success in this offense when he is surrounded by great talent. Time to see if he can do it when that talent is far less. 

My only real question left is if he can take that next step to being a franchise player. 

[top dawg]

Just now, Tepper’s Used Car Lot said:

I know that - using it as an example that a ridiculously small sample size isn't enough to hang our hats on. Teddy is an unknown.

Well, sure, except that he has a full, successful rookie season under his belt also. That stands for something.

I wrote several months ago now that this is hopefully going to be Teddy's time to shine, as his career has basically been disjointed due to injury, but let's not pretend that at least from a winning standpoint that his needle hasn't moved in the right direction. That can't be said of Kyle Allen.

[Madwolf]

15 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I would say Teddy is much more of a known than an unknown at this point in time. We've seen him have some success in this offense when he is surrounded by great talent. Time to see if he can do it when that talent is far less. 

My only real question left is if he can take that next step to being a franchise player. 

Honestly I'd say he has more talent around him than he had at Minnesota. His best WR at Minnesota didn't make it a single year in our group. 

[Moo Daeng]

18 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I would say Teddy is much more of a known than an unknown at this point in time. We've seen him have some success in this offense when he is surrounded by great talent. Time to see if he can do it when that talent is far less. 

My only real question left is if he can take that next step to being a franchise player. 

The NO offense made good talent look great. its not like their weapons are head and shoulders above ours. 

OL? Then yeah. Thats real. Maybe the scheme will finally address that issue.  

[kungfoodude]

17 minutes ago, Madwolf said:

Honestly I'd say he has more talent around him than he had at Minnesota. His best WR at Minnesota didn't make it a single year in our group. 

Was really talking about New Orleans where he was running an offense that will be very similar to ours. 

11 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

The NO offense made good talent look great. its not like their weapons are head and shoulders above ours. 

OL? Then yeah. Thats real. Maybe the scheme will finally address that issue.  

That is possibly true. It's hard to say until those guys move on to other offenses/teams and struggle or not. It would be nice to be able to scheme away some of our OL weaknesses. Let's hope the scheming outweighs the shittiness of the OL. 

[KenB]

Bridgewater does two things very well; he is accurate and he takes care of the ball. In Minnesota, he was hamstrung by have Adrian Peterson in the backfield and an offense geared to handing off for two downs and then hoping to have a short passing situation. That worked up to a point because it got them to the playoffs and within a missed FG of a second round game.

He has always had the ability to get the ball to a receiver in space to give the receiver an opportunity to run. His 65.3% career completion places him ahead of a number of notable quarterbacks like Aaron Rodgers (64.9), Russell Wilson (64.5), and Tom Brady (63.8), among others. I'm not saying he will be a HoF candidate, but with more than a 1000 career passes, I argue that he's shown the skills.

 

[GoPanthers123]

Allen was basically a rookie last year and Ron asked him to win games or he will be fired. That is not a fair comparison in terms of difficulty and pressure to Teddy’s situation. And it is too late now because we traded Allen for better or worse.

[Moo Daeng]

24 minutes ago, GoPanthers123 said:

Allen was basically a rookie last year and Ron asked him to win games or he will be fired. That is not a fair comparison in terms of difficulty and pressure to Teddy’s situation. And it is too late now because we traded Allen for better or worse.

As opposed to asking him to lose games?

[Yaboychris28]

If he’s our face of the franchise than we shouldn’t expect a SB appearance in the near future 

[SizzleBuzz]

7 hours ago, Yaboychris28 said:

If he’s our face of the franchise than we shouldn’t expect a SB appearance in the near future 

Si.  Cuatro años más o menos.

[kungfoodude]

13 hours ago, Yaboychris28 said:

If he’s our face of the franchise than we shouldn’t expect a SB appearance in the near future 

I would disagree based on this, right now CMC is clearly the face of the franchise based on contract size/length, production and national notoriety. If Bridgewater were to surpass him as our "face of the franchise" that either means something very bad happened in CMC's career or Teddy has ascended to elite status. So if the latter scenario is the case, I have to assume we might be headed towards being a respectable team again.

[Moo Daeng]

Face of the franchise is meaningless. 

[therealmjl]

29 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

Face of the franchise is meaningless. 

buffalo nickel is meaningless

[raz]

started reading the last page of this thread and then reading back through the pages.  holy crap. i'm actually wondering if its 1 person with multiple personalities, or the exact same personality but with multiple opinions.  idk what the f i read, or why actually