According to Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald, Cincinnati Bengals defense coordinator Mike Zimmer is scheduled to interview with the Miami Dolphins on Tuesday.
Zimmer has been waiting his entire career for a head coaching opportunity. He was offered the Nebraska head coaching job several years back, but ended up turning it down.
Zimmer is now just happy that he still has a chance to become an NFL head coach.
“It’s still alive, but sometimes you get frustrated over the course of time,” Zimmer told Sports Illustrated recently. “”I go back and think about what they said about Tony Dungy and guys like that. You kind of wonder sometimes, like what else can I do? What does it take? You wonder why some guys get interviewed or get a job over you, but you just end up going with it, and still keep hoping for that opportunity to run your own team.
“All I can do is say, ‘Here’s what I’ve done, this is my track record, and this is my reputation as a coach.’ I’m a coach who can get a good nucleus of guys and make them into a good team, I think.”
As much as the Dolphins would love to hire Jeff Fisher as their next head coach, they need to continue interviewing other head coaching canidates in case he does end up choosing to coach somewhere else.
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