The Vikings started practice early Thursday.
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Bridgewater seemed to agree with Zimmer’s assessment of the practice, talking about needing to show up with more urgency on a day-to-day basis, per the piece.
This is the 50th year of the Vikings holding training camp in Mankato, Minn., and the new agreement will keep the team there past the school’s 150th anniversary in 2017. About a half-hour into it, the Vikings coach stopped everything and ordered his players to run to a far goal post and back. He had been ill for some time, but Mike Zimmer said the death still was unexpected.
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To say Bill Zimmer transformed Lockport’s football fortunes is an understatement. “That was not up to my standards, and they’d better get better quicker or there’s going to be a lot of heck going on…. We’ll come back later today for the walk-through with the right mindset”.
Q: What kind of message did you give to the team as they were walking off? “They didn’t work”.
Mike Zimmer conducted a walk-through practice with his team Wednesday morning and now his plan is to remain with the Vikings through Saturday’s exhibition game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune is reporting that Bill Zimmer, the father of Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer, died Tuesday night. With the players perhaps looking forward to making the 90-minute drive home to their own beds and their families, they delivered a lifeless performance that infuriated their coach.
The coach missed a day of practice last week to see him in Florida but said his death this week was unexpected. He loves to coach, as everybody can tell.
In addition, Zimmer took over a wrestling program that still was in its infancy in 1960 and directed it for the next 27 years.
“You’ve got to ask Coach Zim”, Munnerlyn said. Coach Zimmer, he’s a tough coach. The proven guys we have in the locker room appreciate that. “We’re a much better football team than the way we came out”. But Zimmer said that’s no excuse. “Good teams don’t do that”.
“That’s not what good teams do”. However, the general consensus from players was it was a productive camp.
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“I lean, ” he said, “on my size 10”. “Just (Thursday), you can’t end like that”.
