The Vikings should be good this year. They should make the playoffs. If they don't, ownership will have to decide whether to give Mike Zimmer and personnel boss Rick Spielman one more year.
Denny Green took the Vikings to NFC Championship Games in 1998 and 2000. He made the playoffs in eight of his first nine seasons as coach, compiling a record of 92-52 during that time. The Vikings fired him before the end of the 2001 season.
Mike Zimmer took the Vikings to the 2017 NFC title game.