Newman, who will turn 39 on Sept. 4, recently spoke with another individual who’s in the top age percentile for his career: Star Tribune columnist Sid Hartman.
Newman is entering his third season in Purple under Vikings Head Coach Mike Zimmer, but he also played for Zimmer in Dallas and in Cincinnati. The defensive back told Hartman that Zimmer is “pretty much the same guy.”
“He’s kind of from the tree of Coach [Bill] Parcells,” Newman said. “Both of them are tough-nosed, and demand a lot, but they care about their players.