Sometime between now and the start of the offseason program, second-year quarterback Teddy Bridgewater plans to get together with a group of his Vikings receivers for informal workouts while also getting in a little bit of off-the-field bonding time.

While the Vikings were surely hoping that Bridgewater would organize informal workouts in the offseason, they aren't allowed under the collective bargaining agreement to tell him to do so.

It turns out they didn't need to.

According to quarterbacks coach Scott Turner, Bridgewater approached both him and his father, offensive coordinator Norv Turner, after the season ended about getting all the guys together.

"That's got to be up to the players. But it's something that's good with a young player, that he's taken that initiative and that's the kind of steps that we're talking about with Teddy as far as getting leadership and organizing things like that," Scott Turner said this week in a phone interview. "And it's absolutely important for those guys to develop rapport. … It's more so not even the football aspect of it, but just team-building. It's a very good exercise for those guys."

As of a few days ago, the sessions had not been formally scheduled. Bridgewater and some of his teammates, including wide receivers Cordarrelle Patterson and Adam Thielen, were down in Arizona for the Super Bowl. Bridgewater has also been splitting his downtime between Florida and California and may continue to do so. The group might end up meeting up in California.

"Before OTAs in April, he's heading to California for a little bit. I might head out there with him and meet up with him and a few other guys," wide receiver Charles Johnson said Saturday. "We talked when leaving the facility at the end of the season about getting together, and we will."

Whether it's Fort Lauderdale, where Teddy has been working out, or California, count on that meeting place being somewhere warm.

Not every NFL starting quarterback organizes such workouts. For example, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady put together informal offseason workouts in the past, but when I was in Baltimore, Joe Flacco did not (giving the sports talk radio guys something to fill air time with in the offseason).

It's not a necessity, but for a young quarterback and a mostly young group of receivers, it certainly can't hurt. Turner certainly thinks it's a good thing that Bridgewater has something in the works.

"You see a lot of veteran quarterbacks doing that," Turner said. "I didn't say anything to him about that. No one did. But it was good to see him take that initiative on himself."