Mike Zimmer is ‘extremely impressed’ with the Vikings’ new offense

The Minnesota Vikings head coach has liked what he’s seen so far from the team’s new offense led by Kevin Stefanski and Gary Kubiak.

Last year around this time, some were predicting that the Minnesota Vikings might have to find another new offensive coordinator for the 2019 season. Some assumed that John DeFilippo was going to do such a great job as Minnesota’s offensive coordinator last year that he was going to leave in 2019 to become a head coach somewhere.

However, the Vikings’ offense ended up regressing under DeFilippo and he was fired before the season was even finished. So they did actually hire someone new to run the offense for 2019, it just wasn’t due to what some people were predicting last year.

Currently, Minnesota now has Kevin Stefanski as their offensive coordinator and the team hired Gary Kubiak as an offensive advisor this year as well.

Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer seems to be much happier with this year’s offensive scheme than the one that DeFilippo was installing last offseason. Zimmer recently spoke with KFAN’s Paul Allen and he couldn’t stop raving about what Minnesota’s new offense has been doing during OTAs this year.

"“I’ve been extremely impressed with the things that we’re doing offensively. The way that the coaches are implementing the system. The way that the players are adapting to it and adjusting. (Kirk) Cousins has looked good throwing the ball. Play-action (passing) has been unbelievable. Honestly, I couldn’t be more happy with the direction the offense is going right now.”"

Based on these comments, it sounds like the Vikings head coach is very pleased with what the offense has been doing under Stefanski and Kubiak this year. It takes a lot to impress Zimmer and so far at OTAs, he clearly likes what he sees from Minnesota’s new offensive scheme.

At the same time, everything the Vikings are doing right now in their practices is being done without any pads on. The true test of how successful Minnesota’s offense could potentially be in 2019 will come once the team gets a little more physical during training camp this summer.

So don’t get too excited just yet. But it certainly seems like the Vikings’ offense is heading in the right direction for next season.