The real question should be why should we still trust Zimmer? It used to be he couldn't get the team up to play a team with a winning record in a nationally televised game. Now that they've won a game like that for a change they can't even get up for a Home Game against a shit opponent
The Zim-lovers are going to try and talk up Denver. Whatever. 3-6 entering the game with a backup QB. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the Broncos end the season with 5 wins.
This looked like a flat team with yet another week of no opponent-specific gameplanning. Reiff was iso'd on Miller way too many times. Took an entire half to go to the hurry-up. No blitzing when the D-Line laid yet another egg during the 1st Half.
And how many times has Minnesota come out of a bye or an extended week and looked completely flat and unprepared?
History tells us to expect a Mike Zimmer coached team to come off a bye, go on the road against a team with a winning record in a nationally televised game, and get in a hole right away.
But now they look flat and unprepared against a shitty team at home in non-nationally televised game too? Good teams are used to winning games against other good teams and don't come out flat at home the next week like they have a Superbowl hangover.
I said after the Cowboys game that Minnesota will only go far with Aggressive Coaching. On both sides of the ball. One way to be Aggressive is to have opponent-specific gameplans and having the guts to make in-game adjustments in the first damn half. Neither of those things happened today and it nearly cost them.
