{"id":13574,"date":"2014-12-30T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13574"},"modified":"2014-12-30T13:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:09:35","slug":"vikings-tab-teddy-bridgewater-as-quarterback-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/30\/vikings-tab-teddy-bridgewater-as-quarterback-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings tab Teddy Bridgewater as quarterback next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/teddybridgewater1.jpg\" alt=\"teddybridgewater\" width=\"594\" height=\"408\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/teddybridgewater1.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/teddybridgewater1-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nVikings head coach Mike Zimmer proclaimed quarterback Teddy Bridgewater the teams starter next season.<\/p>\n<p>In his rookie season Bridgewater was 6-6 in 12 games as a rookie starter. He finished with a 10:6 touchdown to interception ratio over his final six games. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Zimmer makes it clear: &quot;Teddy is the quarterback.&quot; Won&#39;t be a competition there.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Goessling (@GoesslingESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoesslingESPN\/status\/549982013265305600\">December 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Norv Turner slated to return as the Vikings offensive coordinator the arrow is pointing up for Bridgewater. <\/p>\n<p>He finishes his rookie season with 2,919 yards completiting 64.4 percent of his passes with 14 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer proclaimed quarterback Teddy Bridgewater the teams starter next season. In his rookie season Bridgewater was 6-6 in 12 games as a rookie starter. He finished with a 10:6 touchdown to interception ratio over his final six games. Zimmer makes it clear: &quot;Teddy is the quarterback.&quot; Won&#39;t be a competition there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-13574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13575,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574\/revisions\/13575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13574"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}