{"id":969799,"date":"2026-08-11T00:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/969799\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T00:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:15:15","slug":"teddy-bridgewater-reveals-reason-for-sudden-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/969799\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Bridgewater reveals reason for sudden retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cYeah, I mean, I think only he can truly answer that, but I feel like this is where it\u2019s at for sure right now,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cThis is where it needs to be and where he felt. And his biggest worry was letting us down\u2014that\u2019s the type of guy he is\u2014and he\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt\u2019s so crazy 10 years ago around this time, I suffered one of the most gruesome knee injuries the game itself, it\u2019s players and some doctors had ever seen. Everything football related since 2016 had been fueled by the \u201cexperts\u201d predicting that I would never play football again. We really showed them by playing 10 more seasons! However, this wheel of mine can no longer deal with something so simple as standing around on the turf field. This thing just doesn\u2019t recover the same way it did years ago so I rather officially hang it up. It\u2019s finally run its course and when the body speaks to me, I have to listen so that I can be in one piece and available for my children as they grow up. The game of football was beyond great to me and owes me nothing at all. I really did things my way Lol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bridgewater was incredibly well-liked, especially amongst his teammates, and many of them\u2014present and former\u2014responded to his retirement post with well wishes and love. Here\u2019s a small sampling:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYeah, I mean, I think only he can truly answer that, but I feel like this is where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":969800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,153,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":["post-969799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroit-lions-news","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-lions","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117073996881559025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969799","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=969799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}