Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer has enjoyed the extra time he has been able to spend at home with his son Adam Zimmer, who is the team's co-defensive coordinator. Zimmer is living with his son, and one adult daughter, at his ranch in Kentucky. Adam Zimmer has turned into his dad's tech guy, so when coach runs into a problem, he just yells downstairs for his son's help.
“If I can’t get it figured out, I can text him and say, ‘Come up here and fix this,’” Zimmer said Wednesday on a video conference call with reporters. “At night, after dinner or something, we’ll sit down and have some crazy idea and we’ll say, ‘OK, we can talk about it tomorrow with the rest of the defensive coaches,’ but it’s been good.”
Zimmer has built up the ranch and has a tractor and four-wheelers he likes to get on during his downtime. Zimmer admits he has enjoyed the extra time to be at his ranch, but he also misses the guys and wishes that they could be all together, instead of meeting over Zoom calls.
“I can go get on the four-wheeler, on the tractor, go fishing and shoot guns, or whatever I want to do. So it’s not like I’m totally quarantined, even though I am, but I really miss being around the players,” Zimmer said. “They’re probably going to get an extra dose of me when they get back.”
Zimmer is ready to get back in person to coach up his team, and hopefully get the Vikings back to the playoffs and towards a Super Bowl run.
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