The Facts: Norv Turner isn’t a man who spends his summer scouring the internet for quarterback rankings. Like most coaches, he tries to avoid that kind of offseason fodder. But some of the recent rankings made it onto his radar. Turner made it clear that he puts no stock in where the NFL’s talking heads are ranking his QB, Teddy Bridgewater. “There’s only four or five guys I would trust in talking to about evaluating quarterbacks because I don’t think there are many guys that understand what you’re trying to do at the position and understand the evaluation process,” Turner, the team’s offensive coordinator, said.
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As Star-Tribune staffer Matt Vensel noted, Turner didn’t name any names, but one imagines that ESPN’s Ron Jaworski isn’t on that short list. Jaworski recently ranked Bridgewater as the 27th-best quarterback in the NFL -- three spots behind Matt Cassel, whom the Vikings traded to the Bills in the offseason. Cassel was 32nd on Jaworski’s annual list last summer. Another set of rankings from ESPN that was based on analysis from anonymous league execs and coaches had Bridgewater at No. 23. “The one evaluation we care about is ours,” Turner said. “And based on where we got to last year and where we think we’re going, I think we have a top-flight quarterback.”