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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are bringing in veteran quarterback Teddy Bridgewater for an official team visit and physical.<\/p>\n
Detroit Lions<\/a> quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is preparing for another season behind starter Jared Goff, but just got some unusual news out of his home state.<\/p>\n As ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter<\/a> reported, the state of Florida passed a new law based on an incident that Bridgewater faced while serving as a football coach at his alma mater. The new law \u2014 named after Bridgewater \u2014 will clear the way for coaches to personally help their players and exonerates Bridgewater from punishment he had faced for doing so.<\/p>\n Teddy Bridgewater Act Goes Into Effect<\/p>\n As The Associated Press<\/a> noted, Bridgewater had lost his position as head coach when it was revealed that he paid out of pocket to help out some of his student-athletes.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bridgewater Act is named for the Florida native and longtime NFL<\/a> quarterback who coached his alma mater, Miami Northwestern High, to a state championship in 2024,\u201d the report noted. \u201cBut he was suspended for the 2025 season after revealing that he personally paid for meals, ride-share services and treatments for some players.\u201d<\/p>\n Bridgewater had spoken out in the past, saying he was only trying to help the athletes living in an area of high poverty and crime in Miami.<\/p>\n \u201cBridgewater, in a social media post that led to his suspension last year, told supporters of the powerhouse high school program that he spent up to $6,000 some weeks for meals, rides and other services for the team, including making sure the field is lined properly \u2014 in addition to $23,500 for the team\u2019s training camp costs and apparel,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tNathan Dougherty<\/a> is a sports reporter covering the NFL for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions and Miami Dolphins. Previously he wrote for the Rochester Business Journal and served as the assistant editor of athletic trade magazines Coaching Management, Athletic Management and Training & Conditioning. He is based out of Rochester, New York, and loves everything football. More about Nathan Dougherty<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are bringing in veteran quarterback Teddy Bridgewater for an official team visit and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":["post-899034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-lions","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116623776662009817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}