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During Sunday's game against the New York Jets, as his team let a 2-10 opponent rally from a 21-12 deficit and send things to overtime, Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer decided there would be no Victory Monday, which players enjoyed the previous week after a 31-13 win over the Carolina Panthers.

Zimmer had promised to alter the team's practice schedule if it beat the Jets on Sunday, and he will keep that promise. But the coach figured there would be plenty to learn from watching the film on Monday. He also wanted to talk to them one more time about the game -- because he knew what he had to say to them after the game wouldn't be as pleasant as they might have expected.

"I never, ever want to take for granted a win -- I know how hard it is to get wins in this league -- but I am trying to develop a mentality here of a championship football team," Zimmer said. "I want our performances to be good and strong each and every week, and so that was really my frustration after the ball game, but I do appreciate how hard our guys fought."

The Vikings will officially finish with a better record this season than they had during a 5-10-1 campaign last year, and they have a chance to get to .500 on Sunday with a win against Detroit. The intermediate steps of progress are just way stations to Zimmer, who seems to have an easier time envisioning what he wants from his finished product than he does waiting for it to get here.

"One thing this team has is a lot of heart and a lot of fight," Zimmer said. "We just have to clean up some mistakes and just keep trying to pound the mentality that I want these guys to have each and every week so that we can eventually grow to where I want us to get to."

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