Teddy Bridgewater Will Play Saturday Night
August 14th, 2025
The Bucs’ new quarterback will take the field Saturday night in Pittsburgh, possibly right after Baker Mayfield is finished with his limited work under the lights.
Yes, most starters will play Saturday, though not Mike Evans — and for good reason.
Todd Bowles gave the news today after a strong practice by the Bucs against the Steelers. Joe’s attitude after this practice. Start the season now! (More on that later).
Bridgewater sure looks smooth in practice. Yeah, he doesn’t have Baker Mayfield’s rocket arm, but Joe saw Bridgewater make some tight-window throws today against live action. He sure looks like he’s been on the team a lot longer than nine days.
Joe talked 1-on-1 to rookie Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard after practice about Bridgewater, and he’s very pleased with how quickly Bridgewater has acclimated and adjusted.
Hopefully, Bucs fans will get a nice taste of that Saturday.
August 14th, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Man, I wish he’d cut his hair. It makes my head itch just thinking about having that much hair in this heat.
I’m glad he’s doing good. I have always liked and admired him.
August 14th, 2025 at 5:47 pm
Kyle Trask showed enough last week
We know he’s an NFL starting QB, given the opportunity
August 14th, 2025 at 5:48 pm
Can’t wait to see how Teddy does Saturday!
August 14th, 2025 at 5:49 pm
Any word on whether he will face Steelers first team?
August 14th, 2025 at 5:49 pm
Teddy doesn’t need to do more than hand the ball off. It’s a meaningless preseason game, not a game he needs to try and win. I wouldn’t play Baker, or any of the starters.
August 14th, 2025 at 5:50 pm
No we don’t.
August 14th, 2025 at 5:59 pm
Never hurts to have a backup QB that can come in and win a game or two!!
August 14th, 2025 at 6:34 pm
Finally a decent backup
August 14th, 2025 at 7:18 pm
Bridgewater has been there and done that. I’m pretty sure if he’s the 2nd team QB there will be alot of whining going on-Trask just can’t seem to get a fair shake, etc.,etc., and then I’ll have something to chuckle about. And Lakeland Buc. We is plural. I is singular. I certainly don’t believe Trask is a starting NFL QB. But he should make a good 3rd stringer. Should is the key word there.
August 14th, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Good. Looking forward to seeing what Teddy can do.
August 14th, 2025 at 7:35 pm
Trask looked good against the 3-14 Titans’ 2nd and 3rd stringers. I still don’t know how he will play in a regular season game against starters. The Bucs have tape on Bridgewater from long ago, but how good is he now?
August 14th, 2025 at 8:42 pm
Tampa Ted
August 14th, 2025 at 10:54 pm
Maybe Teddy can get through a game without a significant injury!
August 15th, 2025 at 1:50 am
Now those helmet logos look way bigger than how I remember them looking on tv the other night… Hell, I don’t know!?:/
August 15th, 2025 at 1:56 am
There are several Bucs Fans out there who are scared to death right now that Teddy might look good. And, will be ROOTING FOR him to fail.
August 15th, 2025 at 2:00 am
I don’t expect him to at all, but I hope he goes out there, & looks GREAT… Much better than Trask. Just all the better for the Team.
August 15th, 2025 at 6:29 am
All the obvious Nole fans and their Trask-Hate is so hilarious on this site.
Trask had completed like 90% of his passes at one point in last week’s game and still we have people claiming that he’s not good.
Let Trask play behind that starting Bucs O-Line and with the starting receivers and you’d have people questioning whether Mayfield should be the QB or not.
August 15th, 2025 at 6:40 am
I do feel bad that Trask never got a real chance to be a starting qb.
Luck of the draw or in this case, luck of the draft.
He’s learned from 4 NFL offensive coordinators.
And he’s making over 2 mill a year.
Not a bad gig.
August 15th, 2025 at 7:30 am
So which is a better backup QB strategy: consistency or one year contract. On one hand, we have Kyle Trask, still young and healthy (I know I know, he never has to get hit), in the system and ready to go. On the other hand, we have this season’s available senior QB (journeyman or former great), in our case, TB16! We could of had Mishew, Lance, Trubisky, Weintz, Gabbert again, etc. QBs are difficult to assess and are seasonally up and down. You really never know what you have until you can or have to play them in real games. The real win is having a healthy started (TB12, Mahomes, Hurts, Mayfield), but we all know every player gets hurt. I am leaning towards consistency and Kyle Trask and hopeful Mayfield keeps going.
August 15th, 2025 at 7:35 am
I understand wanting to gring in another backup, and I do think we need 3 GBs this year…but…Teddy Bridgewater was the wrong guy. The man is one of the most fragile QBs in the game.
If he ends up the QB2, then we’ll need a QB3. Which kind of defeats the purpose of bringing him in.
August 15th, 2025 at 7:36 am
I think it is very possible Bridgewater gets injured in the preseason.