Mike Zimmer is not backing off his vaccine comments and Bisi Johnson is out for the year

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Matthew Coller and Sam Ekstrom, fresh off another Mike Zimmer press conference, talk about how the Vikings' head coach has continued to talk in depth about how he believes players should get vaccinated. Jake Browning will run practice for the next few days -- what does that mean for where things stand at QB? And how will the relationship between Zimmer and Cousins be strained by vaccination opinions. Plus Bisi Johnson is out for the year, what does that mean to the receiver room? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.6	And Sam, you have taken like two days off for this entire time, basically the off season.
0:55.7	And in one, Rick Denison is out as offensive line coach and in the other, Kirk Cousins
1:01.1	gets a close contact with COVID, and so Judd Zulgad took your seat for the other night.
1:07.0	But here we are again with another Zimmer press conference, in which I thought maybe Zimmer would walk some things back because he was so frustrated the other day and just sort of let loose and essentially insinuated that Kirk Cousins was a selfish person and selfish player, not a team player, for not getting the
1:26.4	vaccination and Mike Zimmer doubled down again today and said that he's concerned about some of the information that his players have
1:35.0	gotten he said that he knows some guys just absolutely will not get the vaccine
1:40.2	and I assume he was referring to Kirk Cousins when he was saying that and so now we are
1:44.9	about to go out and watch Jake Browning practice again with Case Cookis possibly and
1:51.2	I saw that Cole McDonald former Hawaii quarterback is also trying out
1:55.7	which I wonder if that means that Nate Stanley has had his time come to an end here in
2:01.0	Minnesota so give me your reaction to all the happenings of the last
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