Dolphins' Teddy Bridgewater on playing after Tua Tagovailoa injury: 'There was a lot going through my mind'

Miami Dolphins backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater knew what the player in front of him on the depth chart, Tua Tagovailoa, was going through on Thursday Night Football.

Tagovailoa was rag-dolled to the ground late in the second quarter and suffered an apparent head/neck injury. It was so bad that his arms seized up and he had to be taken off the field on a stretcher, and ultimately taken to a local hospital via an ambulance.

Ironically enough, Bridgewater suffered a concussion of his own against the Bengals last season, when he was the quarterback of the Denver Broncos. He also had to leave the game on a stretcher and in a neck brace, so talking on Thursday Night after Miami's loss to the Cincinnati Bengals -- Bridgewater seemed almost taken back to that Week 15 matchup with the Bengals in Colorado.

“For me personally, there was a lot going through my mind, honestly,” Bridgewater said, per Pro Football Talk. “Given that against the same team I was carted off the field, so a lot just going through my mind."

With that said, Bridgewater did know that he had a job to do. Tua may have left the game in an ambulance, but the game wasn't over. That's not how the NFL works.

Tagovailoa was slammed to the ground with 5:50 to go in the second quarter of a game Miami was losing just 7-6. Bridgewater knew coming in that he had more than half of a game left in order to try to help the Dolphins move to 4-0 on the season.

"I knew I just had to snap, and try and lead this team to a victory. So many guys were counting on, not only myself, but us to go out there and finish that game, and try to get a win, and ultimately we came up short," Bridgewater said.

Miami lost 27-15. Bridgewater finished the game completing 14-of-23 passes for 193 yards and a touchdown. He did also through an interception, though, as he finished with a QBR of 80.2