{"id":10268,"date":"2014-05-13T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10268"},"modified":"2014-05-13T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:00:41","slug":"report-teddy-bridgewater-did-not-want-to-play-in-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/13\/report-teddy-bridgewater-did-not-want-to-play-in-cleveland\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Teddy Bridgewater did not want to play in Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/teddybridgewater.jpg\" alt=\"teddybridgewater\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/teddybridgewater.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/teddybridgewater-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/teddybridgewater-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThere have been numerous reports as to what happened when the Cleveland Browns traded up for the No. 22 pick in this years draft.<\/p>\n<p>Was it a homeless man that convinced Browns owner Jimmy Haslam to take Johnny Manziel, were the Browns really leaning towards Teddy Bridgewater? Did Teddy Bridgewater even want to play for the Browns?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I actually told my agent that that&#8217;s not the place I want to be.&#8221; said Bridgewater to Paul Pabst, producer of The Dan Patrick Show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>&quot;I actually told my agent that that&#39;s not the place I want to be.&quot; Teddy Bridgewater on the possibility of being drafted by the Browns.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Pabst (@PaulPabst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulPabst\/statuses\/466222497449259011\">May 13, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, Bridgewater is not in Cleveland and instead was selected by the Minnesota Vikings as the No. 32 pick to close out the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland fans are unlikely to care much, they seem to be pretty darn happy with the Manziel pick as he leads all rookies in jersey sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been numerous reports as to what happened when the Cleveland Browns traded up for the No. 22 pick in this years draft. Was it a homeless man that convinced Browns owner Jimmy Haslam to take Johnny Manziel, were the Browns really leaning towards Teddy Bridgewater? Did Teddy Bridgewater even want to play for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[139,426,216,737],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-teddy-bridgewater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10269,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions\/10269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10268"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}