LAS VEGAS – The hazy” and the “murky” are over. The mutual interest between Mike Zimmer and the Dallas Cowboys, first reported earlier this month, is now an official agreement as Zimmer is coming back to “the star” as the newly-hired Cowboys defensive coordinator.
And he just issued his first remarks on the move.
“I’m excited and honored to be back with a great organization,” Zimmer tells Ed Werder of ESPN . “I’m thrilled to work with Mike McCarthy, for whom I have had a ton of respect in our NFC North days, and to do anything I can do to help the Joneses and the Cowboys.”
We’ve written about Zimmer, 67, being a “loyalty guy” and about the value of that as it relates to Jerry Jones and family , who helped him break into NFL coaching with the Cowboys in 1995 … when Zimmer joined a staff that won a Super Bowl.
And it is our belief that infinitely more than Zimmer having some future “master plan,” and infinitely more than Jones having one, this truly is about “helping” the Cowboys get over the hump in an “all-in” manner befitting Jones’ recent pledge.