Asked if Bridgewater might be able to play this season, Zimmer said, per USA Today, “I don’t know … it doesn’t look good right now”.
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From a happy hour in St. Louis Park, to the Minnesota State Fair, conversations Tuesday evening centered around Bridgewater’s injuries. Fifteen year veteran Shaun Hill is listed as Minnesota’s backup, followed by undrafted rookie and former Wisconsin Badger Joel Stave. He will undergo surgery in the next few days. The team released a statement which said that Bridgewater does not have nerve or arterial damage. “I’ve talked to – well, in spirit, I’ve talked to my dad, and he always found a way to do it”, said an emotional Zimmer. “No one is going to feel sorry for us, no one is going to cry”. “He’s like my favorite player too, I was just really sad.really heartbroken”. We’re going to try to figure out as coaches the very best way we can beat the team we are playing that week. “The No. 1 thing is Teddy is such a great kid”, Everyone loves him”. He’s been in the two-minute drill and done a phenomenal job.
The Vikings were counting on Bridgewater to take some major steps forward after a promising start to his career. He helped lead the Vikings to the NFC North championship last season as more of a game manager, but Zimmer and offensive coordinator Norv Turner have said that they expected him to be much more of a playmaker in 2016. After sitting out the second preseason game with reported shoulder soreness, he returned Sunday and was outstanding in the team’s final tuneup and, as it turns out, his final outing of 2016. He went 12 for 16 for 161 yards and a touchdown in two quarters of work. But we’re going to keep fighting.
“Everybody can count us out but I think that’d be the wrong thing to do.”
“I’m super angry because it happened in practice and it’s noncontact injury so it’s even worse”, Jack Emer, from Plymouth, said. This isn’t about a one-man deal.
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“I can go down the line”, Zimmer said, “and I’ll take them with me into an alley anywhere”.
