Ex-NFL player and head coach Dick Jauron dies at 74 after cancer battle

Former NFL subordinate and caput manager Dick Jauron has died astatine the property of 74 pursuing a abbreviated conflict with cancer.

The Daily Item successful Massachusetts is reporting that Jauron passed distant aboriginal connected Saturday morning.

After spending 8 years successful the league arsenic a player, the ex-safety went connected to bask astir 30 years arsenic an NFL coach, astir notably taking complaint of the Chicago Bears and the Buffalo Bills.

Jauron was caput manager of the Bears from 1999-2003, winning the Coach of the Year prize successful his 3rd play astatine the helm aft Chicago went 13-3 and reached the NFC Divisional game.

Three years aft leaving Soldier Field helium was hired by Buffalo, wherever helium went 24-33 earlier helium was fired successful November 2009.

The Yale alumni, who played for the Detroit Lions and Cincinnati Bengals successful his ain career, started disconnected arsenic a antiaircraft backs manager with the Bills successful 1985 earlier taking connected the aforesaid relation with the Green Bay Packers a twelvemonth later.

After 9 seasons successful Green Bay helium enjoyed a four-year spell arsenic antiaircraft coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars. 

Jauron past jumped into his archetypal head-coaching gig with the Bears earlier the Lions hired him arsenic their antiaircraft coordinator successful 2004. He besides served arsenic interim caput manager successful Detroit for 5 games of the 2005 season, going 1-4.

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