DAILY CLIPS FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2020 LOCAL NEWS: Friday, May 22, 2020 Pioneer Press Vikings assistant Adam Zimmer: ‘It’s kind of weird for your boss to be your dad’ By Bob Sansevere https://www.twincities.com/2020/05/21/vikings-assistant-adam-zimmer-its-kind-of-weird-for-your-boss-to-be-your-dad/ After breakout 2019, Vikings defensive end Ifeadi Odenigbo preps for starting role this fall By Jace Frederick https://www.twincities.com/2020/05/21/after-breakout-2019-vikings-defensive-end-ifeadi-odenigbo-preps-for-starting- role-this-fall/ Star Tribune Vikings defensive lineman Ifeadi Odenigbo is ready to take the next step By Chris Miller https://www.startribune.com/vikings-defensive-lineman-ifeadi-odenigbo-is-ready-to-take-the-next-step/570679642/ The Athletic After a breakout year, Ifeadi Odenigbo eyes a starting spot on Vikings’ D-line By Chad Graff https://theathletic.com/1829327/2020/05/21/ifeadi-odenigbo-vikings-defensive-line-starting-spot-everson-griffen/ NATIONAL NEWS: Friday, May 22, 2020 Associated Press Odenigbo’s opportunity: Vikings pass rusher now in key role By Dave Campbell https://apnews.com/be82ac9190a4c5734dcc40ae39a33401 Maven Media Vikings Defensive Tackles Preview: Who Will Emerge at Three-Technique? 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By NFL Network https://www.vikings.com/video/gmfb-is-the-vikings-success-in-2020-completely-reliant-on-kirk-cousins Next Man Up: Ifeadi Odenigbo By KSTP http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=1f610c56-a835-4c4e-8065-c4ef6266f091 Eager to Show Off New Defense By KMSP http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=16373f1e-ea16-43b9-8bea-4958095487cc Odenigbo Preparing for Bigger Role By KARE http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=d05ca6e7-864d-4b85-a301-f2f43baf8135 VIKINGS ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK: Friday, May 22, 2020 Ifeadi Odenigbo Ready for Potentially Increased Role in 2020 By Eric Smith https://www.vikings.com/news/ifeadi-odenigbo-2020-season-potentially-increased-role PUBLICATION: Pioneer Press DATE: 5/22/20 Vikings assistant Adam Zimmer: ‘It’s kind of weird for your boss to be your dad’ By Bob Sansevere Adam Zimmer has been an assistant coach under his father, Mike Zimmer, since 2013. Adam was the assistant defensive backs coach with the Cincinnati Bengals when Mike was the defensive coordinator there. They both left for Minnesota in 2014, when Mike became the Vikings’ head coach. After spending the past six seasons as the Vikings’ linebackers coach, Adam was elevated to co-defensive coordinator along with Andre Patterson. Adam chatted about that and so much more with the Pioneer Press. After things shut down, I spent about a week in my apartment in Uptown. Then I said, “I’m tired of this.” I’d go to Dunkin’ Donuts to get a coffee and that was about the only human interaction I had. So, after a week, I drove to stay with my dad at his place in Kentucky. It’s about 30 minutes south of Cincinnati. It’s not in the middle of nowhere. There are restaurants and grocery stores nearby. We have a lot of land, and it’s close enough to grab dinner or something. On weekends, I walk around the land. It takes about an hour. My dad and I mowed a golf course (into our land) and we hit balls. We shoot some trap. The typical stuff we’d do when we’d come to visit. I spend much of the day separate from my dad. I’m working downstairs. He works upstairs. We cook dinner and watch TV together. My middle sister, Marki, is here also. Football always comes up. A few nights ago, my dad pulled out a white board and drew on it. It’s always on our mind. That’s what we do. I’m definitely itching to get back to normal. We have these virtual meetings, and it’s been good. I want to get back to driving to work every day and having meetings every day instead of virtual stuff. We’ve tried to have virtual walk- throughs. We make a call to each position group and they have to explain what to do. That’s as much as we can get out of this, trying innovative ways to do things. I’ve gone to practices since I was 3. It was early on when I decided I wanted to coach. I want to be a head coach someday. That’s been in the plan ever since I’ve started. I’ve taken some notes from every head coach I’ve been with. I made mental notes and, you know, (figure out how) I would do this if I was a head coach or I wouldn’t do this for certain reasons. If you’re in this position now, that’s the next step. I don’t want to do it when I’m not ready. I want to thrive in this role first and then get to that position. I’d be all for it if we won a Super Bowl. If I could time travel, sentimentally, I’d like to go back to when my mom was living. She passed away in 2009. It was my last year with the (New Orleans) Saints. I was basically like a graduate assistant. The last year they added assistant linebacker coach. My favorite cereal as a kid either was Fruity Pebbles or that honey-smack cereal. My dad loved Cap‘n Crunch, so I had that, too. I love the movie “Miracle.” I get goose bumps every time I watch it. For comedies, I like all those movies with Will Ferrell. I got my degree in finance from Trinity University in San Antonio so, if I wasn’t coaching football, maybe I’d be doing something in that nature or teaching. My dad has been the greatest influence on me. I learned a whole lot from him and my mom. When I first got to the Saints, Joe Vitt taught me a lot about coaching and being in the meeting room. He had an influence on me, too. He took a kid right out of college and took me under his wing and trusted me to do stuff. He let me run drills and run meetings. His son-in-law is Adam Gase, and he’s coaching with the Jets now. At the facility and around the team, I mostly call my dad Coach. It’s kind of weird for your boss to be your dad. I refer to him as Zimm in front of players. Players call me Zimm, Coach or Adam. As long as they don’t call me a—hole, I’m good. Everyone says we’re similar, my dad and me. But I think we both have our own little quirks. I don’t think I’m as boisterous as he is. No, I don’t yell as much as him. I’m more of an explain-things-coach instead of a yeller. We’re all intense on game day, so that’s a little different. But around the players, I think I’m a little more talkative instead of yelling. Since we started coaching together, I think our relationship definitely is stronger. I spent just one year in Cincinnati with him. It was an adjustment period in Cincinnati. Eventually, we became more comfortable. I went there in 2013 and he got the job in Minnesota in 2014. I learned more football in these last seven years than I could have imagined. I played four years of football in college. I was a defensive back. I wasn’t anything to write home about. One of the coaches I had the most respect for was Charlie Weis. I worked for him in Kansas City (in 2010). He saw things really, really well as a coach. He called an outstanding game. He says he tries to put himself through the players’ eyes and see what they can do, not something that’s drawn up and they can’t do and is unrealistic. I tell the players all the time, “You guys are the ones that have to play. If you don’t think we can do this, tell me and we’ll adjust things.” A lot of things look good on the chalkboard or talking through it on the film, but if they can’t go out and execute it, it’s doing no good. It’s hurting you instead of helping you. Being a co-defensive coordinator with ‘Dre has been really smooth. We’ll get together and meet and put together a schedule. He does a little more in the front and the run game. I do a little more with the back end, the DBs, linebackers and coverage. It’s not difficult at all. I’ve known ‘Dre since I was in grade school, so it’s a good relationship. Worst thing I did as a kid? Maybe at training camp, getting my dad’s golf cart stuck in a sand trap at the college he was at in training camp when he was with Dallas. It was like a volleyball sand court.