John DeShazier | Senior Writer - NewOrleansSaints.com
Teddy Bridgewater has been a starting NFL quarterback in the past, and he believes he’ll be a starter in the future.
But he isn’t at present. Except when he is.
Drew Brees, who’ll stroll into the Pro Football Hall of Fame the second he becomes eligible, is the New Orleans Saints’ starter. And any time he’s on the premises at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center, there isn’t any question which quarterback will take the snaps with the No. 1 offense, barring a rest day.
But Brees has been absent the past few workouts – last week’s OTAs and Tuesday’s opening day of minicamp. And that has given Bridgewater a chance to work with the starters perhaps even more extensively than he did during the final regular-season game of 2018, when he started while Brees rested, as the Saints already had secured the No. 1 seed for the playoffs.
And Bridgewater, who was traded to New Orleans from the Jets during the last week of preseason in 2018, is soaking in every bit of the exposure.
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