Star Tribune · Feb 28, 2019
Mike Zimmer considers hiring Vikings kicking coach
INDIANAPOLIS – In search of an answer for the Vikings' pernicious kicking problems, Mike Zimmer revealed Thursday he's thinking about an unorthodox solution.
The Vikings coach said at the NFL scouting combine he's been thinking about adding a kicking coach to the team's staff, someone who could work directly with the Vikings' specialists and lend more focused assistance to the unique challenges of the position. Zimmer said he'd talked with Ravens coach John Harbaugh — himself a former special teams coordinator who has a specialists coach on his staff — about the idea, and added new Vikings special teams coordinator Marwan Maalouf is open to the idea.
