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GhostOfPoverty
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I've been saying this since 2017, but Mike Zimmer is a terrible NFL head coach. The guy puts zero effort into the offense, and his defenses only dominate about half of their games the past couple years. And no matter how good the D seems, they always get lit up in big games (see the 2017 playoffs for reference).
What tipped me off the most was how the guy always lays into his players. Like how he NEVER supported Case Keenum in 2017 right in the middle of the season when the team was doing well and needed to rely on the guy to make a title run (which I blame their missing on Zimmer more than anyone else). Then let the front office overpay Cousins to come do arguably worse than Keenum for 3 guaranteed seasons, which will probably set them back until 2022 or 2023 at a minimum. I guarantee the team would have just kept Keenum on a 2 year deal for about $10 mil less per year like he took in Denver instead of wrecking the franchise for the foreseeable future on Cousins had Zimmer not been so clueless and spoken up on the matter. But no, he wanted Keenum out of town no matter what the cost for what never amounted to a quantifiable pgrade.
His in-game play calling is also crap. The Green Bay and Chicago losses this year were classic examples of the guy being way too stubborn about making adjustments to the game plan when their plan A is failing them. I can't believe the Vikings decided to exercise their team option to extend this guy through 2020 instead of letting the chips fall where they may in 2019. Now we won't even get to see a different coaching regime try out running the team with Cousins at the helm before we can finally get rid of him too. But I guess their line of thinking might just be that Zimmer and Cousins will simply fail together if they can't make it work by then.
What tipped me off the most was how the guy always lays into his players. Like how he NEVER supported Case Keenum in 2017 right in the middle of the season when the team was doing well and needed to rely on the guy to make a title run (which I blame their missing on Zimmer more than anyone else). Then let the front office overpay Cousins to come do arguably worse than Keenum for 3 guaranteed seasons, which will probably set them back until 2022 or 2023 at a minimum. I guarantee the team would have just kept Keenum on a 2 year deal for about $10 mil less per year like he took in Denver instead of wrecking the franchise for the foreseeable future on Cousins had Zimmer not been so clueless and spoken up on the matter. But no, he wanted Keenum out of town no matter what the cost for what never amounted to a quantifiable pgrade.
His in-game play calling is also crap. The Green Bay and Chicago losses this year were classic examples of the guy being way too stubborn about making adjustments to the game plan when their plan A is failing them. I can't believe the Vikings decided to exercise their team option to extend this guy through 2020 instead of letting the chips fall where they may in 2019. Now we won't even get to see a different coaching regime try out running the team with Cousins at the helm before we can finally get rid of him too. But I guess their line of thinking might just be that Zimmer and Cousins will simply fail together if they can't make it work by then.