Zimmer quickly shrugged that aside and said he’d rather be 5-0 in the regular season.
Fox Sports North’s Kelly Beaton examined correlations between preseason and regular season results in Vikings history.
Beaton wrote:
One thing history seems to suggest: A great, undefeated preseason often translates to big success later in the year in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. The Vikings have had seven undefeated preseasons all-time, and only two of those unblemished exhibition campaigns were followed up with losing regular-season marks (in 2001 and last season).
VIKINGS UNDEFEATED PRESEASONS
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