The Minnesota Vikings leadership preaches longevity amid the Mike Zimmer era, existing as bedfellows with the 65-year-old head coach for [coming up on] eight seasons. Before Zimmer arrived, Minnesota incurred a stretch of football from 2010 to 2013 in which the Vikings were the NFL’s seventh-worst franchise per wins and losses.
Zimmer flipped that.
On Zimmer’s watch, the Vikings are the league’s eighth-best team, winning 58% of all games since 2014. The primary frustration with Zimmer is that he never glues together back-to-back seasons of prosperity. It’s always good, mediocre, good, mediocre, etc (in that order).