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How Teddy Bridgewater is bearing the cross of playing 'not fancy' football

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Preseason storylines: Minnesota Vikings

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CINCINNATI -- Moments after Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater fired a 49-yard touchdown strike to Charles Johnson Friday night, the comments on social media started to come.

See, Teddy can throw the deep ball.

The defense of Bridgewater is in full force as we head to the 2016 season. Like Tony Romo and others before him, Bridgewater suddenly finds himself as a quarterback in the crosshairs of public opinion. He has his defenders, but he also has a lot of doubters.