3 reasons Teddy Bridgewater’s sour grapes tour needs to end
By Dean Jones
Teddy Bridgewater didn’t convince anybody
The Carolina Panthers lost eight games by one score in 2020 and finished with a 5-11 record for the second straight year. Teddy Bridgewater was under center for all these defeats and regardless of whether they were practicing specific drills or not in a much-changed COVID-19 season, any competent signal-caller would have come away with a better record.
If Bridgewater doesn’t think so, he should watch his own tape.
One doesn’t have to look far to see where things were failing. Bridgewater was missing open receivers time and time again in critical moments of the game, even getting star wideout D.J. Moore injured on an erratic throw in the fourth quarter as they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory at the Minnesota Vikings.
Bridgewater is trying to save face, which is fine. But leading by example is the hallmark of any good quarterback.
Players need to believe in them, go the extra mile for them, and know that they will do whatever is necessary to get them victories.
Unfortunately for the Panthers, Bridgewater was none of those things and never did anywhere close to enough to convince staff, players, or fans that he was anything more than a band-aid fix to what’s becoming a complex problem to solve in Carolina.