Everyone remembers the one that got away. From the girl next door to the job offer with the bad timing, hindsight can be cruel as much as it can be educational. For the Dallas Cowboys, Sean Peyton is often seen as the head coach that got away.

Dallas will need to find a new defensive coordinator for 2025, too. Mike Zimmer told Ed Werder that he would not return to the Cowboys and would likely retire.

It comes after Trump won the district by 21 points in November. In 2024, Trump flipped Scott County red after Joe Biden previously won by the county by 3 points in 2020, and Hillary Clinton by 2 points in 2016. Jackson and Clinton counties were won by Trump in the last three presidential elections.

Democrats have flipped an Iowa state Senate seat in a district that overwhelmingly voted for President Trump in November. Democrat Mike Zimmer, who has worked in education and serves as the

Longtime public education professional, coach, and president of the Central DeWitt School Board Mike Zimmer claimed victory in Tuesday’s Special Election for Iowa Senate District 35.

Democrats Tuesday flipped seat in the Iowa Senate in a special election held to replace Republican Sen. Chris Cournoyer, who was named as Iowa's lieutenant governor, but Democrats still will be far outnumbered in the chamber.

Former Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer is likely to retire from coaching in the NFL, according to veteran reporter Ed Werder. Zimmer spent last season as the Cowboys' defensive coordinator under Mike McCarthy but is not returning to Dallas on new head coach Brian Schottenheimer's staff.

When the Cowboys elected to part ways with former head coach Mike McCarthy earlier this month, the writing was on

Democrat Mike Zimmer beat out Republican Kate Whittington in a special election to fill newly appointed Lt. Gov. Chris Cournoyer's state senate seat.

"The truth,'' Mike Zimmer tells us with a laugh, "is that I've wanted to be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys for 25 years.''

There were more famous moments, to be sure, from Mike Zimmer’s relatively successful eight-year run as Vikings head coach. But I don’t know if there was one quite as instructive as this blistering assessment of his team’s play: “I told them it was a very poor performance.