Texas Vike wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 7:59 am Seattle's a good team and playing them in that stadium is difficult. I know players and Zimmer are frustrated (exhibit a: a microphone caught Thielen saying "It's been there all F'n night" in the fourth quarter after he finally got the ball; exhibit b: Zimmer's presser, where his blood is boiling and his contempt for JDF and Priefer are essentially written in blood on his forehead). But I still think they may rally and go at least 2-1 over the last three games and make the playoffs.
As much as I like Zimmer, I am starting to realize that he is a very good D coordinator, but not much more. The team's success hinges on the OC, because Zimm's vision for the entire team is really limited to his side of the ball. I think a lot of blame for not addressing the OL gets assigned to Rick, but my suspicion is that Zimmer has influenced our inflated number of 1st and 2nd round picks going to CBs. Zimmer's global vision for the team is too influenced by his specialty.
I have no doubt he's influenced those CB picks and as you know, I've been saying for a long time that as a head coach, Zimmer makes a good defensive coordinator so I obviously agree with your point about a global vision for the team.
The Wilfs have built a stadium, state-of-the-art practice facilities and put their full confidence in Spielman and Zimmer to build a champion. This relatively healthy 6-6-1 team is the culmination of 5 years of those two basically hand-picking what they wanted, from QBs to CBs to coaches and so on.
After watching last night's game, I don't even care if the Vikings make the playoffs this year. They don't look as if they could do much with the opportunity anyway and it might actually serve them (and us fans) better if the wheels came off and they lost their next 3. Maybe they need the wake up call that kind of finish would provide.