Zimmer: Checkup shows 'retina is perfect'

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- When the Minnesota Vikings start training camp in Mankato, Minn., at the end of next month, coach Mike Zimmer expects the issues in his right eye to be a thing of the past.

Zimmer said Thursday his eye is recovering nicely after eight operations between November and May to repair a detached retina. The coach said he had a checkup on Wednesday, which showed "the retina is perfect, the pressure [in my eye] is great."

Zimmer said his doctor told him he'd be "absolutely shocked if anything else happened in this eye." And while Zimmer will have to drive to Texas for his daughter's wedding later this month while the gas bubble in his eye dissolves, the coach said, "We're just…