Rotoworld names Mike Zimmer NFL’s Eighth-Best Coach

In the four years that he has been the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, Mike Zimmer has guided the purple to 39 regular season victories and their first playoff win since 2009. It appears that he might finally be starting to get the respect that’s due to the top-flight coaches in the National Football League, and with good reason.

The folks from Rotoworld put together their head coach rankings, as they do at about this time every year, and they’ve placed Zimmer as the 8th-best coach in the National Football League. That’s a seven-spot jump from where he was last year, when Rotoworld put him at #15.

Here’s what Rotoworld had to say about the job that Zimmer has done and what the future…