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Vikings fire coach Mike Zimmer, general manager Rick SpielmanThe team fired coach Mike Zimmer and general manager Rick Spielman on Monday, parting with two men who'd been in their positions longer than most of their peers around the NFL.
Star Tribune ^ | 1/10/2022 | Ben Goessling

Posted on 01/10/2022 6:47:16 AM PST by vespa300

On Monday morning, the Vikings made what might have been the most sweeping set of leadership changes in the Wilf family's 16 years of owning the team.

The team fired coach Mike Zimmer and general manager Rick Spielman on Monday morning, according to a source familiar with the team's decision-making, parting with two men who'd been in their positions longer than most of their peers around the NFL. Both Zimmer and Spielman had two years remaining on the contract extensions they signed in 2020, but a day after the team finished 8-9 and missed the playoffs for the second straight season, the Vikings opted for a total reset.

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To: Dead Corpse
Zimmer got us closer than anyone since Grant. This was just a sucky year all around.

I think if I were an owner I'd be saying to myself "we just added another team to the playoffs. 14 teams make it now, in a 32 team league! If you can't be in the top half of the league and you've been in the job more than a few years than you need to go!" Probably part of the internal monologue the owner had.

21 posted on 01/10/2022 7:24:37 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Dead Corpse

Biggest mistake the Vikings ever made was moving indoors.


22 posted on 01/10/2022 7:28:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

You mean wearing a Seminoles jersey in Gainesville.


23 posted on 01/10/2022 7:30:44 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Every time I travel to Pullman, WA, I wear my purple and gold Huskie shirts or hats. Gotta represent when you in the belly of the beast...


24 posted on 01/10/2022 7:31:12 AM PST by shotgun
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To: dfwgator

Either way, you are a target of scorn.............................


25 posted on 01/10/2022 7:31:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: dfwgator

The only Vikings game I’ve ever seen live was at the Met stadium, in a snow storm, where we lost to the Bears.


26 posted on 01/10/2022 7:32:56 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse

Well at least that’s another cold-weather team.

Do you think if that NFC Championship Game against the Falcons was at The Met, the Vikings lose that game? Hell, no.


27 posted on 01/10/2022 7:34:11 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

When we first moved here to Ft. Walton Beach in 1981, my wife wore her Gators jersey as normal around Jacksonville.

We went to a Fast Food drive-in window and the cashier lady said, “I wouldn’t be wearing that around here in public if I was you!”........................


28 posted on 01/10/2022 7:34:16 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: dfwgator

Hopefully the Seahawks fire Pete Carrol and bring in someone who:

1) can fix the defensive slow starts since Dan Quinn left
2) can get a more innovative offense
3) quit playing a low scoring came to keep it close and go for the other teams juglar


29 posted on 01/10/2022 7:34:43 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Red Badger

I know Fangio. He is a super nice, unimposing looking guy. But get him on a football field.....he wears a cape!
I wish Vic well, even though kicking the FG instead of going for the tie, which allowed Mahomes to close out the game, was a blunder.


30 posted on 01/10/2022 7:35:17 AM PST by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: vespa300

Oh, yes. Ziggy Wilf. There’s a name you can trust.

Jerry Glanville said the NFL stands for “Not For Long”. With most coaches, including himself, that’s correct. The Vikings are a team whose W-L record never quite matches the talent on the field.

I actually met an NFL assistant coach online during the old CompuServe days. He talked about having to pack up and move his family on a regular basis because most get their jobs through networking and have to constantly keep employed based on who they know.


31 posted on 01/10/2022 7:35:34 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: shotgun

I have a feeling Quinn is going to be Seattle’s next head coach.


32 posted on 01/10/2022 7:36:46 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dead Corpse

Bears fired Nagy and their GM today as well, the Dolphins also fired their coach.


33 posted on 01/10/2022 7:38:38 AM PST by chuck allen
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To: vespa300

Zimmer will probably end up in Dallas as a Cornerbacks coach

Never forget that great trade by Minn to Dallas. Herchel Walker to Minnesota for six players and five draft picks giving the Cowboys a dynasty in the 90s! Minnesota got not so much.


34 posted on 01/10/2022 7:39:15 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: dfwgator

Lions fan here, now a Matt Stafford fan...
The problem with the lions, as I see it, is that they would play not to lose.
They never played to win.
Now, they are playing to win.


35 posted on 01/10/2022 7:40:16 AM PST by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: Obadiah
Razzel Dazzel is right.
The Ford Field was Rockin yesterday. Folks where having a great time.
My first opportunity to get to a game in years. The 2022 Draft should be interesting for sure.
36 posted on 01/10/2022 7:41:36 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: chuck allen

After watching Miami play in their classic Aqua unis yesterday, I hope the next GM brings back their classic uniforms permanently.


37 posted on 01/10/2022 7:41:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MotorCityBuck

Only 3 wins, but nobody is saying “Same Old Lions” anymore.

It just goes to show how team culture matters.


38 posted on 01/10/2022 7:44:43 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Miami kept their GM of 7 years, just let Flores go. I was kinda surprised, he had a decent first 3 years. 10-6 last year and 9-8 this year, plus he was 4-2 against Belicheat in the division. Wasn’t Tua hurt and missed a few games earlier this year?


39 posted on 01/10/2022 7:45:44 AM PST by chuck allen
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To: chuck allen

Unless Miami has someone in mind to bring on, I don’t understand firing the head coach. It seemed that things were headed upward there.


40 posted on 01/10/2022 7:46:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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