Mike Zimmer faces tough decisions with Vikings' veteran defensive players

Mike Zimmer's season-ending news conference played out just after sunrise on Monday morning, two days after the Vikings' 27-10 loss to the 49ers in the NFC divisional playoffs. Zimmer picked the early hour to close the book on the 2019 season before taking some time to get away; he'd decided to give his coaching staff a chance to rest after the season, rather than starting into postseason player evaluations right away.

"Part of the reason why I didn't want to do player evaluations today or this week was because I want to get away from everything for a little bit of time," Zimmer said. "You know, if you win, everything is great, if you lose, everything is the worst in the world, so I think it's important that we take our time, get away from it for a few days, then we evaluate and we'll go from there."

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