{"id":8422,"date":"2014-01-15T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2014-01-15T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:15:23","slug":"minnesota-vikings-set-to-hire-mike-zimmer-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/15\/minnesota-vikings-set-to-hire-mike-zimmer-as-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Vikings hire Mike Zimmer as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8426\" alt=\"mikethomas\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikethomas1.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikethomas1.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikethomas1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/mikethomas1-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Vikings have hired Mike Zimmer as their new head coach, according to ESPN.com<\/p>\n<p>Zimmer, spent the past five seasons as the defensive coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals. \u00a0Zimmer, who was the only candidate to receive a second interview stayed overnight after the interview was finished on Tuesday, according to the source.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmer will keep Minnesota&#8217;s 4-3 defense in place and reportedly has interest in bringing in Norv Turner to run the offense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings have hired Mike Zimmer as their new head coach, according to ESPN.com Zimmer, spent the past five seasons as the defensive coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals. \u00a0Zimmer, who was the only candidate to receive a second interview stayed overnight after the interview was finished on Tuesday, according to the source. Zimmer will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":["post-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}