A skeptical eyebrow was raised by a visitor chatting with Mike Zimmer on the patio outside his second-floor office at TCO Performance Center on Tuesday.
"Honestly," said the 65-year-old Vikings coach, "I don't know yet if I'll call the defensive plays this year."
Yeah, right, Zim. You've only done it at the highest level of football the past 21 seasons, including the last seven as head coach. And this is the year you'll be unveiling some significant schematic changes come Sept. 12 at your old haunts in Cincinnati.
Seriously?
"Well, my other deal is, right, I got a young special teams coach [Ryan Ficken] and I got a young offensive coordinator [Klint Kubiak] with a pretty young staff," Zimmer said.