LAS VEGAS – As we write this, Mike Zimmer hasn’t even moved one box of stuff into the defensive coordinator’s office at The Star in Frisco. But even as that seat remains warm from Dan Quinn’s time in it, there is already one projection that suggests Zimmer won’t be sitting in that seat for very long.
“Mike Zimmer,” the headline reads, “already has inside track to be Cowboys next head coach.”
Wait. What? He does ?
It’s Super Bowl Sunday here in Las Vegas and we already have speculation from outside The Star that the coach of the Cowboys in 2025 figures to be Belichick. ESPN’s new weird justification for the grossly premature “report”?
And now along comes the idea that Zimmer isn’t just here to serve as coach Mike McCarthy’s top defensive aide, that there is a darker reason …
Zimmer is here to take McCarthy’s job.
USAToday writes scoldingly that “the hyperbole is flow(ing)” but then adds to said hyperbole by suggesting that “maybe head coach isn’t such a distant thought” for Zimmer, adding, “Zimmer, 67, may see running the defense in 2024 as giving him the inside track on the head coaching position in 2025 if McCarthy leaves.”