Mike Zimmer’s 45-year coaching career has brought him back to Dallas this season, where he will be the Cowboys’ defensive coordinator — a title he previously held, but also served as head coach of the Vikings and defensive assistant for several other teams. . And he says he’ll continue to do things his way.
Zimmer acknowledged that the Cowboys defense doesn’t need the major overhaul he’s sometimes been hired to do, but he still wants the players to know this is his defense and changes will happen.
“It’s like I told the defense the first day I got here. I said, this is a different deal for me. Usually when I come in, the defense isn’t good. You know? They’re pretty good,” Zimmer said. , via ESPN. “So for me it’s a little bit different because we have to highlight some of the things they did well and try to improve on the things they didn’t do so well. But for the most part they’ve played pretty well, and we going to try to accentuate that and maybe be a little bit more technique-oriented, maybe a little bit more disciplined some of those things. We have to do it the way I want. I know if you try to come in and do someone else’s thing, it just doesn’t go well.”
Dan Quinn, who coordinated the Cowboys’ defense for the past three years, is now the head coach in Washington. Now the defense will be named Zimmer.
