EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Heading into his fourth preseason as the Vikings head coach, Mike Zimmer is continuing to find ways to improve.
Zimmer, who arrived in Minnesota in 2014 with two decades of NFL experience on defense, has started to spend more time with the offense and special teams units.
“There’s so many times you get to be a head coach and you’re a defensive coordinator and you come in trying to able to get the defense fixed,” Zimmer said. “Then, you get fired in a year or two years. So, you don’t learn how to truly be a head coach.