A day after the Vikings’ 41-17 victory over Miami doubled as a statement about the kind of offense Mike Zimmer wants the team to have, the coach spent Monday dialing down the degree to which the changes under interim offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski are perceived as a vast departure from what the Vikings did under John DeFilippo.
The effectiveness of Stefanski’s game plan, Zimmer said, lay in the Vikings’ ability to run the same play multiple times, with formation shifts or motion to give it a different appearance.
“We pared some things down, but we ran one play 10 times with 10 different variations,” he said.