He completed 6 of 13 passes for 49 yards, took two sacks and had a rating of 56.2 as a reserve to open the 2014 preseason against the Raiders.
“My head was spinning,” recalled Bridgewater Thursday as he and the Vikings prepared to host the Raiders at 7 p.m. Saturday.
“My head was everywhere, my mind was everywhere,” Bridgewater said. “First off, trying to get the play call correctly in the huddle, then coming to the line of scrimmage, trying to make the right calls at the line of scrimmage, then post-snap trying to figure out what coverage the defense is running.