Longtime NFL participant and coach Dick Jauron, who led the Chicago Bears to the playoffs and was voted AP coach of the yr in 2001, died Saturday. He was 74.
The Bears confirmed his demise, which got here sooner or later earlier than Philadelphia — the place Jauron briefly served as an assistant to present Chiefs coach Andy Reid — performed Kansas Metropolis within the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Jauron was a two-sport star at Yale within the early Nineteen Seventies, and he was drafted by each the Detroit Lions within the NFL draft and the St. Louis Cardinals within the Major League Baseball newbie draft. He in the end made soccer his lifelong pursuit, starting with 5 seasons as a defensive again in Detroit and three extra with Cincinnati earlier than his retirement in 1980.
The popular Jauron moved into teaching and 5 years later was employed by the Bills as a defensive backs coach. He went on to teach defensive backs in Green Bay and have become mates with Reid, who was an assistant offensive line and tight ends coach.
In 1995, Jauron was employed by Tom Coughlin because the defensive coordinator for the growth Jacksonville Jaguars, and he parlayed success there into the top teaching job in Chicago. Jauron had only one successful file in 5 seasons with the Bears, successful the NFC North in 2001 earlier than shedding to the Eagles — then coached by Reid — within the divisional spherical of the playoffs.
Jauron was fired in 2003 and have become the defensive coordinator in Detroit, the place he served because the interim coach for 5 video games in 2005. He spent the following 4 seasons as the top coach in Buffalo however by no means had a successful file.
He completed with a 60-82 file and one playoff berth over elements of 10 seasons as a head coach.
Jauron’s demise got here simply two days after the Bears introduced the demise of Virginia Halas McCaskey, who inherited the franchise from her father, George Halas, and spent four-plus a long time because the principal proprietor. She was 102.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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