🚨Mike Zimmer fired by Vikings after 8 seasons - Emergency Podcast (Football 1/10)
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The Pick Six crew reacts to the Vikings firing of Mike Zimmer and discuss who could be the next head coach in Minnesota.
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| 0:00.0 | Mike Zimmer out in Minnesota along with Rick Spielman, the GM. |
| 0:05.6 | I don't think that Zimmer was surprising. |
| 0:07.9 | I think it has sort of been building up for quite some time. |
| 0:11.1 | Spielman a little shocking though, right? |
| 0:14.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.5 | I've kind of adopted the Vikings as my second team this season. |
| 0:20.0 | Everybody go listen to the All Things covered podcast. |
| 0:22.7 | And I feel very in tune with that fan base. |
| 0:26.4 | And it was inevitable. |
| 0:28.5 | Mike Zimmer, you know, taking pictures after the game yesterday, |
| 0:31.9 | which isn't a Mike Zimmer thing to do, |
| 0:33.7 | sitting on a sideline soaking it in after that |
| 0:36.7 | when US bank stadium over the bearer. |
| 0:39.2 | So that one seemed inevitable. |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.8 | I think appreciated by that Vikings fan base. |
| 0:47.1 | But once you get to eight years |
| 0:49.1 | and only three playoff appearances, obviously, I don't know. |
| 0:55.0 | They won the division twice. |
| 0:57.5 | He went 72, 56 and one. |
| 0:59.4 | So he won 56% of his games. |
| 1:02.6 | I mean, I guess I get it. |
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