I did a piece about a month or so ago looking at potential changes to the Vikings’ defensive scheme, as Zimmer expressed a desire for new ideas this off-season, and made a number of coaching changes that may be part of his plan for a new look on defense.
In that last piece I wrote about potentially going to a 3-4 defensive front, or using a hybrid front, but parsing some of Mike Zimmer’s comments, and taking a more detailed look at the background of the new coaches he’s hired, leads to a slightly different, but perhaps more likely, conclusion.