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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater batten to the media for the aboriginal time aback the alpha of training affected and alone the additional time aback he went bottomward with a abominable knee abrasion on Aug. 30, 2016. Bridgewater abundant his alley aback to practice, his expectations of arena this division and how he's channeled the affliction of his abrasion into article positive.
["350"]Bridgewater aperture statement
Teddy Bridgewater: It was abundant to be aback out there bygone alive with the guys. It's been a continued 14 months, but it was abundant to be aback out there, see the acknowledgment from the guys, the acknowledgment from the fans. Aloof meant a lot to me. Got to abide to get bigger now. Those mini milestones -- aloof actuality able to get aback on the football acreage yesterday, that was a mini milestone. I still accept some assignment to do. Aloof attractive advanced to it.
How are you activity afterwards your aboriginal day?
TB: I was activity appealing good. It's aloof abundant to be out there with the guys. I've been alive in the dog house, in the backyard by myself so to be able to get out there with the guys, it was appealing fun and I'm activity appealing good.
How continued did you anticipate the moment of your return?
TB: Man, I've been cerebration about that moment every day because I use it as motivation. I use that to acquaint myself, hey, I'm one footfall closer. Actuality out there, active out of that adit bygone aloof did article to me in a acceptable way.
Were you decayed at all? How adequate were you?
TB: I acquainted actual adequate actuality out there and competing. I've been able to watch film, get a feel for the guys, how they move about and things like that. Didn't feel decayed at all. It was aloof acceptable to be out there with the guys, in the huddle, calling plays. Attractive those guys in the eyes and seeing those guys assurance in me and I assurance in those guys.
What's the one affair you appetite to see that's activity to prove to yourself that you're accessible to absolutely get in bold action?
TB: That's aloof article that I'm activity to accept to see how I feel activity forward. It could be aloof commutual a canyon bottomward the acreage or authoritative a abrupt movement in the pocket. Aloof activity to attending for little things anniversary day to do whatever I can to get aback to who I was afore and alike better.
None of your teammates appetite to be the aboriginal one to hit you in convenance or appear abutting to your knee. Do you account your aboriginal contact, too? Is that article that's in the aback of your mind?
TB: Of course. I'm aloof waiting, actually. We accept to be acute with everything. The plan is to get to the chase in adjustment to run the race. If we're not actuality acute and I'm not accomplishing whatever it takes to get to the race, I'll never be able to run the race. That actuality said, we're aloof activity to go out there and achievement those guys abide to attempt at a aerial akin aback I'm in there and don't booty annihilation and don't ascendancy off. Eventually aback I get out there adjoin an opponent, they're activity to be advancing afterwards me. It's activity to be fine. Those guys are pros, we're pros. We apperceive how to practice. That's article Drillmaster Zim mentioned aback Day 1: Be a pro. Apperceive how to practice.
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Vikings QB Teddy Bridgewater has able words for the media as he gets aback to practicing with his teammates afterwards 14 months.
If they charge you, what's realistically the aboriginal bold on the agenda you anticipate you could comedy in?
TB: I'm not attractive that far bottomward the road. I accept to abide to booty it one day at a time, advance anniversary day, attending for mini milestones aural anniversary day. That's article I can booty abroad from anniversary day.
["400"]There are a lot of bodies who appetite to apperceive whether you'll be the aforementioned amateur again. How do you feel about that?
TB: We'll aloof see aback the time comes. I'm activity out there whenever my time comes with a ablaze accompaniment of apperception that whatever happens is a allotment of God's plan. For me to be continuing appropriate actuality talking to you guys about practicing bygone and that aloof shows how acceptable God is.
What is your aplomb in your leg appropriate now and its adeptness to ascendancy up?
TB: I'm actual confident. I wouldn't accept gone out on that convenance acreage if I wasn't. I'm activity to abide to aloof assignment adamantine with the training agents here, been alive with (head backbone and conditioning drillmaster Mark Uyeyama) and Tom and those guys and aloof activity to abide to strengthen it, get added adherence and accretion added aplomb as the time goes on.
What was the hardest thing, physically, about the aftermost 14 months?
TB: The hardest thing, honestly, was aloof actuality astute with myself. A lot of times I anticipate bodies abort to be absolute with themselves about every situation. For me, I never capital this bearings to be about me. That's why I didn't allocution to the media or annihilation because at the end of the day, no one's activity to feel apologetic for you. I aloof had to be absolute with myself and acquaint myself, 'Hey, it's activity to booty some grit, you're activity to accept to bullwork it out,' it's activity to be canicule area you may not feel like advancing to work. Those are the canicule that you accomplish your best progress. Accepting that mindset and continuing to aloof hone in on myself and admonish myself that that's what it's activity to take. That was apparently the hardest thing.
Did cutting blush cleats in account of your mom in your aboriginal convenance aback ascendancy significance?
TB: No. Those are aloof some of the cleats that I formed out in throughout my analysis sessions. Those are the cleats that I'm activity to abrasion this year, best likely.
Mike Zimmer mentioned abatement you aback in. What does that beggarly to you? Do you acquaint them ‘give me more' aback you feel like you can handle it?
TB: I aloof accept to abide to assurance the process. They appear up with a abundant plan for me for these abutting brace of weeks and I'm activity to abide to assurance it anniversary day. Anniversary rep that I take, I'm activity to try to accord it my all. I'm activity to try to aerate my opportunities.
I apperceive you're activity day-by-day, but do you accept you'll comedy this season?
TB: I absolutely accept I'll comedy this year. I can't aloof sit actuality and say it. I accept to abide to put the assignment in on the field, on the convenance acreage and appearance the training agents or the college ascendancy that eventually I can get aback to the amateur who I was. But appropriate now, I'm absorption on practicing, actuality about the guys, interacting on the football acreage afore I alike anticipate about arena in a live-action game.
Do you anticipate 21 canicule is abundant to prove to them and yourself that you can do it?
Who knows? Annihilation is possible. I'm activity to accumulate that mindset and go from there.
Some players accept to adjust abroad from their team. How important was it for you to be about the guys alike afore you had bygone to convenance with them again?
TB: It was actual important actuality about the guys. You appear in, you see those guys alive acutely adamantine and that motivates you. That's one of the bigger things that helped me get through this process.
["470"]Is it sometimes adamantine to booty things day-by-day and not attending advanced to arena in your aboriginal bold aback and alike above that aback you're a chargeless abettor in 2018?
TB: It's not adamantine demography it day-by-day at all. I abstruse to acknowledge anniversary day. So anniversary day I deathwatch up, I put my anxiety on the arena and I'm thankful. I'm able to walk. I'm able to angle up on my own. There was a time area I bare help, I bare assistance. I abstruse to acknowledge the abate things and affectionate anniversary day is aloof allotment of affectionate those abate things.
How do you feel about your movement to abstain a canyon rush?
TB: I'm activity to see how it is affective forward. I feel appealing assured in myself. Arena quarterback, you accept to be the eye of a hurricane. There's a lot activity on about you so you accept to abide calm and that's article I booty pride in.
How do you apprehend you'll be altered as a quarterback afterwards activity through this?
TB: That's a catechism that will accept to acknowledgment itself with my play. Affective forward, I aloof appetite to be the best amateur that I can be, be the best adaptation of Teddy that I can be.
Physically do you feel like you're accomplishing things abnormally than you did before?
TB: I've been alive out like crazy. I apperceive my aerial body's a little stronger so I'm throwing the brawl with some added zip.
What's the bigger aberration in this offense. Now it's Pat Shurmur's offense. Norv Turner was still the abhorrent coordinator aback you were playing.
TB: This offense, there are completions all over the field. I've been able to watch the quarterbacks practice, I've been on the sidelines for the home amateur and been able to watch the games. The guys accept been aggressive at a aerial level. They've been actual efficient, not demography too abounding sacks and arena fast. I like what I've been seeing from the breach and achievement that we can abide to accumulate activity forward.
How do you anticipate this aggregation has acclimatized to the quarterback bearings and ambiguity acquired by injuries this season?
TB: This team, apparently some of the best guys that I've been about aback it comes to adversity. These guys never put their arch down. They consistently said, 'Hey, whoever's aback there, we're activity to ride with them.' That's what I've been acquainted aback aftermost year. These guys, we've been ambidextrous with affliction and they've been accomplishing a abundant job of aloof responding. I'm appreciative of this team, the way we assignment says a lot about our apprenticeship staff, says a lot about the players we accept in this locker allowance and in this building.
Have you abstruse annihilation new about yourself accepting gone through adversity?
TB: I abstruse a lot about myself but I consistently acquaint myself, it's not about me. With this situation, the bigger affair I took abroad was that I achievement that addition out there who's been counted out, who's been doubted can attending at my adventure and say, 'Hey, here's a guy who was already counted out.' I apperceive I haven't played in a football bold yet but aloof actuality aback on the convenance field, I anticipation all achievement was gone. I achievement that my adventure can actuate someone. I consistently allocution about it to my accompany aback home and all the little kids aback home that there's activity to be doubt, there's activity to be bodies counting you out, but attending at me. This absolute accomplished 14 months, it was never about me. I was home a lot throughout this time and I was able to allege to the kids and acquaint them, admonish them, assure them that the approaching is bright. That's the bigger affair I took abroad from actuality injured.
How austere was the diagnosis? Was there allocution from doctors that you weren't activity to be able to comedy again?
Yeah, probably. The alone affair I was afraid about was the activity in my leg at the time. It was a crazy day. It happened, it fabricated me a bigger being and I'm blessed to be continuing actuality today.
["270"]At the end of these three weeks is there article you charge to appearance yourself or is it added that you feel accessible and you charge to appearance them (the Vikings coaching/medical/training staff)?
TB: We're aloof activity to be acute about the situation. We're activity to advance anniversary day and appear up with a bold plan for anniversary day. Aback the time comes we'll accomplish a accommodation and go from there.
During the six-week aeon that you had to sit out, aback did you get the faculty that you were activity to be able to appear aback to practice?
TB: Honestly, I apparently could accept accomplished a while ago but we capital to be acute about everything. I apparently wasn't accessible to be about affective guys and things like that, so application those six weeks aloof helped me with altered drills and things like that, that administer to practice, that administer to the games. Aerate those six weeks and I'm blessed to be aback practicing.
How continued is "a while ago?" A brace of weeks?
TB: Yeah, a brace weeks.
What did your surgeon acquaint you on Monday?
TB: I'll accumulate that amid he and I.
Did he or any of the added bodies who advised you accurate any curiosity at how far you've come?
TB: Yeah, he was appealing appreciative of the assignment that I've put in. I visited with him a brace times throughout this action and anniversary time he saw me he was added pleased, so that's a acceptable thing.
Have you gotten into the breeze of starting to adapt for an adversary again?
TB: Yeah, definitely. You accept to actualize those routines and advance those habits again. I started weeks ago whether its breaking bottomward film, accepting aback to my normal, account plan whether it's scheduling massages or activity to beddy-bye at the able time, advancing to assignment at a assertive time and accomplishing assertive things to actualize those habits.
How did your teammates advice you through this process?
TB: They helped me a lot. I don't appetite to distinct anyone out but I'm activity to. Terence Newman, he's awesome. There's a acumen he's played in this alliance for so long. He mentored me throughout this process, he consistently kept me smiling. There would be canicule I would appear in and I apparently wouldn't be too enthused about it and he would appear up to me, 'Hey, where's that smile? I don't see that smile.' I assumption I'm aloof accepted to smile a lot. He would accompany it out of me and he consistently brought the best out of me. He brings the best out of a lot of guys on this aggregation and that's the acumen why he's a captain.
What are your thoughts on the Vikings abashed quarterback situation?
TB: Like I said, no one is activity to feel apologetic for us. Whoever is out there, we apprehend those guys to go out and attempt at a aerial akin and accord us a adventitious to win. Appropriate now, we're sitting in a acceptable position and that aloof speaks volumes to the way the aggregation has responded, the way the quarterbacks responded to this bearings and the way the apprenticeship agents has fatigued up their plan for those guys.
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