DAILY CLIPS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2020 LOCAL NEWS: Saturday, February 15, 2020 Star Tribune Andre Patterson's bond with Mike Zimmer extends to the next generation By Mark Craig http://www.startribune.com/andre-patterson-s-bond-with-mike-zimmer-extends-to-the-next-generation/567895852/ SKOR North Should the Vikings be interested in Josh Rosen? By Matthew Coller https://www.skornorth.com/vikings-2/2020/02/should-the-vikings-be-interested-in-josh-rosen/ NATIONAL NEWS: Saturday, February 15, 2020 Maven Media Four Free Agents The Vikings Should Not Re-Sign This Offseason By Will Ragatz https://www.si.com/nfl/vikings/news/four-free-agents-vikings-should-not-resign-offseason Bleacher Report: Vikings Should "Jump-Start the Inevitable" and Begin Rebuilding By Will Ragatz https://www.si.com/nfl/vikings/news/bleacher-report-vikings-inevitable-rebuilding-cousins-zimmer MULTIMEDIA NEWS: Saturday, February 15, 2020 Vikings All-Decade Team: Offensive Line By Vikings Entertainment Network https://www.vikings.com/video/vikings-all-decade-team-offensive-line Debate Over U.S. Bank Stadium Pull Tab Surplus By KSTP http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=da21533c-f32b-4e6e-a636-74a3172c83d9 VIKINGS ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK: Saturday, February 15, 2020 Lunchbreak: Vikings Defense Will be 'Collaborative Effort' in 2020 By Lindsey Young https://www.vikings.com/news/lunchbreak-vikings-defense-will-be-collaborative-effort-in-2020 Panel & Fans Vote on Vikings Best OL from 2010-19 By Lindsey Young https://www.vikings.com/news/minnesota-vikings-all-decade-offensive-line-2010-19 PUBLICATION: Star Tribune DATE: 2/15/20 Andre Patterson's bond with Mike Zimmer extends to the next generation By Mark Craig Andre Patterson was 27 and fresh out of the high school coaching ranks when he met 31-year-old Mike Zimmer at Weber State in Ogden, Utah, in 1988. The Wildcats were coming off a 10-win season and a trip to the Division I-AA quarterfinals. Zimmer was heading into his fourth season as Mike Price’s defensive backs coach. Patterson had just been hired to coach the defensive line. Similar in thought yet different in approach, they hit it off immediately. “We have a common bond that we both strive every day to be great, and we both strive every day to try and overturn every rock that we can to put our players in a better position so they can succeed,” Patterson said earlier this week when he spoke to reporters for the first time since having co-defensive coordinator added to his duties as Vikings defensive line coach. “From the first day we got together at Weber State, I think that’s the thing that we both looked at each other and said we’re pretty similar.” And yet they can be oh so different. So different that Patterson was asked to explain how they manage to work well together? “You’ve heard of good cop, bad cop, right?” said Patterson, who joined Zimmer with the Vikings in 2014. “You know, I think it’s like that. There’s no gray with Mike Zimmer. There’s no gray. You know where you fit. He’s going to tell you, whether you want to hear it or not, he’s going to tell you the truth of what you’re doing good, what you’re doing bad and what you need to improve on. “I’m more of the motherly type. I’m going to put my arm around you and teach you just like I did when I was a teacher. So I always use the analogy of if I was a math teacher and you were having problems with something, I wouldn’t stand by you and hit you in the back of the head and cuss you out. I’d pull up a chair and sit down and show you how to figure out the problem. That’s my philosophy as a coach.” Patterson has coached football basically since the day his knees told him his playing days were over back in 1981. A defensive lineman, he transferred from Contra Costa College in San Pablo, Calif., to Montana, where he got his first coaching job as a graduate assistant in 1982. Patterson is heading into his 39th season as a coach. He has made 18 stops — including two stints with the Vikings — in 13 states from SoCal to New England, Florida to Washington and Texas to the Twin Cities. Other than his current seven-year run with the Vikings, Patterson hasn’t worked anywhere longer than the four years he spent in his first paid job at Renton High School in Washington. From there, he had one year as head football coach and dean of students at St. Monica Catholic High School in Santa Monica, Calif., before going to Weber State. Patterson and Zimmer worked together for one year at Weber State and three with the Dallas Cowboys (2000-02), and they are now going on seven years with the Vikings. In 17 NFL seasons, this is Patterson’s first promotion to coordinator, although he said the Browns and the Broncos blocked him from taking promotions with other teams in the mid-2000s. “When you’re under contract, the team has to let you out,” Patterson said. “So people always tell me my problem is that I do too good of a job, so they don’t let me out. So, fortunately, Zim gave me the opportunity, and I’m very thankful for that and I’ll give him everything I got.” Actually, it’s a co-opportunity. Faced with picking between his 32-year coaching confidant and his 36-year-old son, Adam, the team’s linebackers coach, Zimmer chose all of the above as eyebrows were raised and critics snickered with charges of nepotism. Patterson had questions of his own. So before he accepted the offer, he said, he and Adam “got together and talked a lot of things through.” And? “For me, No. 1, it was to make sure that we both wanted to do it,” Patterson said. “That we both were comfortable with doing that. And then, No. 2, defining our roles. “What part of the defense did Adam feel was his strength? What part of the defense did I feel was my strength? And then how we can bring that together to where we become one strong fist. So, we had several conversations about it, and I feel very strongly that we’re in a great situation.” PUBLICATION: SKOR North DATE: 2/15/20 Should the Vikings be interested in Josh Rosen? By Matthew Coller Josh Rosen’s career has gotten off to a no-good, miserable start. After being one of the most debated quarterback prospects in 2018, he was drafted by an Arizona Cardinals team in dire straits and then thrown into the fire with the worst offensive line in the NFL and virtually no offensive weapons outside of Larry Fitzgerald. Not to mention his offensive coordinator was fired a few weeks into his starting career. And then the Cards fired his head coach and hired an offensive guru Kliff Kingsbury. Presumably wanting to allow the new head coach to pick his own QB, the Cards drafted Kyler Murray and traded Rosen to the worst team in the NFL. In Miami the former UCLA star saw only a handful of opportunities as new Dolphins head coach Brian Flores chose to roll with veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick. While the decision may have been questionable, Fitzpatrick managed to FitzMagic his way to a handful of wins despite the Dolphins ranking dead last by PFF in pass blocking grade and 28th in receiving. Rosen was abysmal in his three starts, going 0-3 with one touchdown, five interceptions and a 52.0 rating. He was sacked 16 times in just 128 dropbacks. In two years with the league’s most putrid supporting casts, Rosen has shown nothing that would suggest he’s going to be a good NFL quarterback. Out of 45 quarterbacks with at least 200 pass attempts since 2018, Rosen ranks 45th in quarterback rating, 45th in yards per attempt, 44th in interception percentage and 45th in completion percentage. So why would the Vikings have even the slightest interest in trading for him after Miami’s decision to send a second- round pick to the Cardinals went belly up? First, the situation. With Kirk Cousins under contract through 2020, the Vikings will have to decide whether to sign him to a long-term contract extension. And even if they want him back, they have to negotiate a new deal with a QB who played hardball the last time he was in this spot. We could end up going into the 2020 season without a new deal for Cousins, which would mean all other options being explored. Clearly if Cousins is signed by this offseason, there’s no reason to consider other QBs. If he’s not and the Vikings aren’t capable of trading up for a top quarterback, they’ll have to look elsewhere. Having a backup in 2020 who could ultimately become the 2021 starter might be a necessary move for the Vikings to make in the coming months. Rosen is also younger than the presumptive No. 1 overall pick Joe Burrow. It’s hard to say that the book is written on a player who just turned 23 and hasn’t been put in anything resembling a position to win. Sam Bradford and Ryan Fitzpatrick didn’t exactly thrive in Arizona or Miami ahead of Rosen and Ryan Tannehill graded even worse by PFF than Rosen in 2018 and saw an massive turnaround this year with the Tennessee Titans.