I want no part of Zimmer. Ugh.
He's 65 years old. I'd much rather have a younger, more hungry coach with newer ideas.
Added to which, we need to stop the nonsense of bringing back people just because we know them and they had a stint here before. I don't care if it makes the Joneses more comfortable to keep seeing the same old faces at their mimosa brunches.
You think our run defense this year is unacceptable and Zimmer is the man to fix it? Zimmer ran our defense the year we allowed three individual 200-yard rushers in one season. (And that was 2000, after a 1999 season when zero NFL RBs cracked 200 yards in a single game the entire year. We let three of them do it in a single year.) He possesses no magic silver bullet to fix rushing defense.
You think our pass rush isn't good enough and Zimmer fixes it? When Zimmer ran our defense, a common complaint was that our linemen weren't let off the leash because he demanded they wait until they'd played their run-defense responsibilities before they turned their attention to the pass. Greg Ellis played his best football under someone else. Ebenezer Ekuban played his best when he left our team. La'Roi Glover averaged 10 sacks a year in New Orleans, and then we signed him and he averaged 6 sacks a year in his 3 years under Zimmer (I generously excluded his last year here since that was the year we switched schemes). Glover's best seasons here were comparable to his worst season with the Saints. Pass-rushers just never played their best on his watch here.
You think he'll make chicken salad out of chicken **** personnel? When he ran our defense, his defense fell apart the second Darren Woodson was lost. As soon as we asked him to run a defense without the luxury of an all-time great at safety (someone so elite in coverage, he covered wide receivers in the slot like a cornerback routinely), he fell to pieces and was lost in the tall grass.