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With limited practice time, Zimmer moves OTAs with necessary focus, urgency

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Being organized and focused has never been more important for an NFL head coach.

Back in the good, old days for coaches — and bad, old days for players — practice time in full pads runneth over. And players rarely changed teams, so continuity ranneth over as well.

In 1960, the year before the Vikings arrived in the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys were the league’s expansion team. They trained at St. Olaf College here in Minnesota. They escaped the Texas heat, but not the grind of what was then a typical NFL training camp.

Dallas’ rookies reported to camp July 3.