The NFL pre-season, for head coaches, doesn't tend to include the monotonous task of building, tinkering, and rolling out a gameplan to obliterate opponents. For most, it's a time to get a grasp on the roster, play vanilla schemes, and hope to avoid any big injuries. Minnesota Vikings' Mike Zimmer can be put in that group.
According to ESPN's Courtney Cronin, Zimmer isn't concerned with building a world-beating gameplan for the Vikings' week one pre-season bout versus the New Orleans. For him, via Cronin, the game is about finishing “initial install and working on technique.” He said:
“Sometimes it's fun just to go out and play and not worry too much about the opponent, just line up and play football.”
For some on the roster, pre-season will be filled with fun, simplistic football, without the worry of going through an entire game. However, for a lot, the period will be about attempting to stick on the roster or make a name for themselves on a bigger stage.
Zimmer won't just be having fun playing football in pre-season, he also has his eyes on exploiting the new pass interference rule to better grasp it for when the real football starts. As reported last week, Zimmer said on the rule:
“My flag is probably going to get emptied out in the preseason. I think we just have to figure out how they’re going to call it and how they’re going to do it. You know, it’s gone round and round and round so many times.”
In some way, pre-season will be fun for Zimmer.
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