Forum The Longship Breaking News - Teddy to the Big Easy!

Breaking News - Teddy to the Big Easy!

Kentis
Joined Oct 2013
804 posts
Rep: 949

Schefter reporting live...

Liked:
#1 · Aug 29, 12:46 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

Well Drew can't play till he's 50...can he???

Liked:
#2 · Aug 29, 12:47 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

I do not know why, but I saw this coming....it had definitely crossed  my mind. Now, I want to puke.

Liked:
#3 · Aug 29, 12:47 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

Teddy isn't going to play at all this year, but he can sit and keep safe another year. Good place for him. He might not play next year, either. Meantime, its a good backup for Brees. If they can work out a longer deal, then good for Teddy. 

NFC Championship Game: Teddy in for an injured Brees, game in Minnesota, Cousins throws late INT and Teddy takes them down the field for the game winning FG. LMAO! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Liked:
#4 · Aug 29, 12:59 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0
@"StickyBun" said: Teddy isn't going to play at all this year, but he can sit and keep safe another year. Good place for him. He might not play next year, either. Meantime, its a good backup for Brees. If they can work out a longer deal, then good for Teddy. 

NFC Championship Game: Teddy in for an injured Brees, game in Minnesota, Cousins throws late INT and Teddy takes them down the field for the game winning FG. LMAO!


Well me and you have very different sense of humors...lol.

Liked:
#5 · Aug 29, 1:02 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

p.s. looks like it was for a 3rd round pick, about right. Same as Tyrod Taylor.

Liked:
#6 · Aug 29, 1:03 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0
@"suncoastvike" said:
@"StickyBun" said: Teddy isn't going to play at all this year, but he can sit and keep safe another year. Good place for him. He might not play next year, either. Meantime, its a good backup for Brees. If they can work out a longer deal, then good for Teddy. 

NFC Championship Game: Teddy in for an injured Brees, game in Minnesota, Cousins throws late INT and Teddy takes them down the field for the game winning FG. LMAO!


Well me and you have very different sense of humors...lol.


Gallows humor, brother. It would be SO Vikings for that to happen.

Liked:
#7 · Aug 29, 1:03 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

Would have been better if had gone to an AFC team.  Like I have said a few times, Wish him well, great young man. 

Liked:
#8 · Aug 29, 1:08 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0
@"StickyBun" said:
@"suncoastvike" said:
@"StickyBun" said: Teddy isn't going to play at all this year, but he can sit and keep safe another year. Good place for him. He might not play next year, either. Meantime, its a good backup for Brees. If they can work out a longer deal, then good for Teddy. 

NFC Championship Game: Teddy in for an injured Brees, game in Minnesota, Cousins throws late INT and Teddy takes them down the field for the game winning FG. LMAO!


Well me and you have very different sense of humors...lol.


Gallows humor, brother. It would be SO Vikings for that to happen.


Well I didn't say it could never happen.

Liked:
#9 · Aug 29, 1:11 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

Ugh, I like Teddy but I refuse to allow my hatred for the Saints to diminish, even a little bit!

Liked:
#10 · Aug 29, 1:12 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

Interesting.  I guess he's now Ok with being a backup.  I'd like Teddy backing up Cousins instead of what we have.

Liked:
#11 · Aug 29, 1:12 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

Very good for the Saints and Teddy. Saints get their QBOTF and Teddy becomes the heir apparent on a very good young team whose offense suits him well. Jets I'm not sure about.

Sure they get a high pick for a player that cost them nothing. But if they could've just waited a few weeks for a starter to go down, as one always does, they may have gotten a lot more for him. I suppose they couldn't really "expect" that to happen though. 

Liked:
#12 · Aug 29, 1:17 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0
@"StickyBun" said: Teddy isn't going to play at all this year, but he can sit and keep safe another year. Good place for him. He might not play next year, either. Meantime, its a good backup for Brees. If they can work out a longer deal, then good for Teddy. 


Bridgewater is on a 1-year contract, so unless the Saints are extending him (or franchise him!), they won't have him under contract after 2018.

It's nice that he's still in the NFL, but I'm not sure it's a nice landing spot, because unless Brees gets hurt he won't play. That means he won't earn all those incentives in the contract he signed - $4M of his potential $6M is based on playing 50% of the snaps in a game ($250K per game). Backing up Brees means he might be paid no more than the $1M guaranteed in the contract. He will be a UFA next spring, but what kind of deal will he receive if he just held a clipboard all year?

Liked:
#13 · Aug 29, 1:25 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0
@"Jor-El" said:
@"StickyBun" said: Teddy isn't going to play at all this year, but he can sit and keep safe another year. Good place for him. He might not play next year, either. Meantime, its a good backup for Brees. If they can work out a longer deal, then good for Teddy. 


Bridgewater is on a 1-year contract, so unless the Saints are extending him (or franchise him!), they won't have him under contract after 2018.

It's nice that he's still in the NFL, but I'm not sure it's a nice landing spot, because unless Brees gets hurt he won't play. That means he won't earn all those incentives in the contract he signed - $4M of his potential $6M is based on playing 50% of the snaps in a game ($250K per game). Backing up Brees means he might be paid no more than the $1M guaranteed in the contract. He will be a UFA next spring, but what kind of deal will he receive if he just held a clipboard all year?



Saints will likely re-do his deal. Otherwise they paid a helluva price for a 1-year backup. 

Liked:
#14 · Aug 29, 1:29 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

I doubt Teddy is excited about this - I would bet he was hoping to go somewhere where he would have a chance to be the Starting QB. I predict one and done in Aints'ville and gets a starting job in Tampa Bay

Liked:
#15 · Aug 29, 1:30 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0
@"MaroonBells" said:
@"Jor-El" said:
@"StickyBun" said: Teddy isn't going to play at all this year, but he can sit and keep safe another year. Good place for him. He might not play next year, either. Meantime, its a good backup for Brees. If they can work out a longer deal, then good for Teddy. 


Bridgewater is on a 1-year contract, so unless the Saints are extending him (or franchise him!), they won't have him under contract after 2018.

It's nice that he's still in the NFL, but I'm not sure it's a nice landing spot, because unless Brees gets hurt he won't play. That means he won't earn all those incentives in the contract he signed - $4M of his potential $6M is based on playing 50% of the snaps in a game ($250K per game). Backing up Brees means he might be paid no more than the $1M guaranteed in the contract. He will be a UFA next spring, but what kind of deal will he receive if he just held a clipboard all year?



Saints will likely re-do his deal. Otherwise they paid a helluva price for a 1-year backup. 


Yeah, I would wager they aren't throwing a 3rd away for a one year deal.  

Wish it were elsewhere so I could root for him. 

Liked:
#16 · Aug 29, 2:01 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0
@"Jor-El" said:
@"StickyBun" said: Teddy isn't going to play at all this year, but he can sit and keep safe another year. Good place for him. He might not play next year, either. Meantime, its a good backup for Brees. If they can work out a longer deal, then good for Teddy. 


Bridgewater is on a 1-year contract, so unless the Saints are extending him (or franchise him!), they won't have him under contract after 2018.

It's nice that he's still in the NFL, but I'm not sure it's a nice landing spot, because unless Brees gets hurt he won't play. That means he won't earn all those incentives in the contract he signed - $4M of his potential $6M is based on playing 50% of the snaps in a game ($250K per game). Backing up Brees means he might be paid no more than the $1M guaranteed in the contract. He will be a UFA next spring, but what kind of deal will he receive if he just held a clipboard all year?


That's incorrect, 6 mil is his base if he's on the roster at the start of the season (pretty obvious he will be) and those incentive brought his contact up to like 15 mil. 

Liked:
#17 · Aug 29, 2:12 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0
Liked:
#18 · Aug 29, 2:18 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

What kind of fuckery is this? I am rooting for Teddy but it's the Saints. Ugh. That must have been a weird scene with the bus, it's like hi and goodbye. I am wishing him all the best.

Liked:
#19 · Aug 29, 3:09 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

Ewww, ilovebigtd's has to be a Saints fan now.  Jets would have been bad enough.

Liked:
#20 · Aug 29, 3:54 PM
DE
Joined Apr 2026
206,512 posts
Rep: 0

Teddy Bridgewater signed a one year, $6 million contract with the Jets
on March 18, 2018. Bridgewater received a $500,000 signing bonus which
is the guaranteed portion of the contract.
The Saints take on the remaining $5 million of his contract.
https://overthecap.com/player/teddy-bridgewater/2971/

Contract Notes:

  • $250K/game he plays 50% of the snaps (max: $4M)
  • Passing Yards Incentives
    $250K for 2500 yds
    $500K for 2751 yds
    $1.25M for 3001 yds 
  • Touchdown Incentives:
    $250,000 for 10
    $500,000 for 16
    $1.25M for 21
  • $2.5M for 50% of snaps AND playoffs

Liked:
#21 · Aug 29, 4:16 PM
Log in to reply.

Edit Post (mod action — author will see a notice)

Warn Poster

Suspend User (3 days)

The user will be suspended for 3 days and will receive an email with the reason and information about how to appeal.

Forum The Longship Breaking News - Teddy to the Big Easy!
Return to top ↑

Welcome to VikeFans!

Welcome back, Skol fans! This is our new home. Log in with your username or email and your existing password.


Be sure to check out the How To's and Questions forum for guides on getting around the new site, and use the Help Request forum if you run into anything that you need help with. Skol!