Questions Answered: Teddy Bridgewater Returning, Prime Unexpectedly Good Viking, Andre Carter II

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Questions Answered: Teddy Bridgewater Returning, Prime Unexpectedly Good Viking, Andre Carter II

Additionally, please word: These are opinion-based responses. Some solutions shall be incorrect every now and then. However we’ll attempt to hold that to a minimal.

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Q: Since Teddy Bridgewater needs to return again, which group will he play for?

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Reply: Most likely none of them.

Bridgewater teased the comeback final month earlier than his highschool squad received the Class 3A chip, and plenty of questioned if he was offhandedly joking. Nicely, he wasn’t.

Requested about his comeback on The Insiders this week, Bridgewater replied, “That’s the plan. My team knows that’s the plan. We wanted to win a state championship and then coach goes back to the league, see what happens, and then come back February in the offseason, continue coaching high school football. We’ll see how it plays out.”

In concept, Bridgewater might signal with the Las Vegas Raiders or New York Giants, two groups experiencing quarterback turmoil. Or, if a playoff-bound beginning QB1 fell injured, Bridgewater’s cellphone might ring.

If he does return this season, we’ll say it’s as a result of an harm sidelined Jared Goff, and Detroit wished insurance coverage for Hendon Hooker.

In any other case, if Bridgewater needs to return, he’ll in all probability must undergo a coaching camp, preseason, and all that. Thirty-two-year-olds are not often employed off the road in December.

Q: Who’s the Vikings participant that’s stood out essentially the most though you didn’t anticipate it?

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Reply: By default, it must be Sam Darnold. However most have generally accepted that he’s fairly good now. We don’t actually have to fret about Darnold all of the sudden stinking.

So, let’s go together with defensive sort out Jalen Redmond.

Redmond could be the NFL’s fourth-best inside defensive lineman if he certified for Professional Soccer Focus‘s snap rely. All of the man does is make performs when referred to as upon.

He’s a tackle-for-loss savant, and Minnesota ought to definitely re-sign him for the lengthy haul. Control No. 61 as a result of his taking part in time will proceed to spike. Man’s a baller.

Q: Why did Minnesota let Andre Carter II go to the Raiders?

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Reply: They didn’t actually have a say within the matter.

Carter II lived on the follow squad, as there’s no room on the 53-man roster for him in 2024. Minnesota must demote or launch Bo Richter, for instance, to have Carter II on the lively roster.

And when a participant lives on the follow squad, he’s eligible to be stolen by some other group, as long as the stealer provides the participant to the lively roster.

Subsequently, the Raiders, a membership needing EDGE depth after Maxx Crosby’s injured reserve journey and Janarius Robinson’s suspension, pilfered him from the follow squad.

That is the way it goes, for higher or worse. The identical factor occurred with the Vikings, Panthers, and Luiji Vilain.

Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his day by day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options friends, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple group, with 4-7 episodes per week. His MIN obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as intently because the NFL. 

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