Former NFL player, coach Dick Jauron dead at 74

Dick Jauron, the erstwhile caput manager of 2 antithetic NFL franchises, died Saturday. He was 74.

The Chicago Bears confirmed the death. Jauron was the Bears' caput manager from 1999 to 2003. 

He was antecedently diagnosed with cancer, The Daily Item successful Massachusetts reported.

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Dick Jauron, caput manager of the Buffalo Bills, watches from the sideline against the New England Patriots connected September 10, 2006, astatine Gillette Stadium successful Foxboro, Massachusetts.  (Rick Stewart/Getty Images)

He became the Buffalo Bills' caput manager successful 2006, a relation helium maintained until 2009. The adjacent season, Jauron was named the Philadelphia Eagles' antiaircraft backs manager nether Andy Reid.

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Jauron was a two-sport prima astatine Yale successful the aboriginal 1970s, and helium was drafted by some the Detroit Lions successful the NFL Draft and the St. Louis Cardinals successful the Major League Baseball amateur draft. He yet made shot his lifelong pursuit, opening with 5 seasons arsenic a antiaircraft backmost successful Detroit and 3 much with the Cincinnati Bengals earlier his status successful 1980.

Head manager Dick Jauron of the Buffalo Bills looks connected during the crippled against the Miami Dolphins connected December 9, 2007, astatine Ralph Wilson Stadium successful Orchard Park, New York. (Rick Stewart/Getty Images)

The well-liked Jauron moved into coaching and 5 years aboriginal was hired by the Bills arsenic a antiaircraft backs coach. He went connected to manager antiaircraft backs successful Green Bay and became friends with Reid, who was an adjunct violative enactment and choky ends coach.

Jauron had conscionable 1 winning grounds successful 5 seasons with the Bears, winning the NFC North successful 2001 earlier losing to the Eagles — past coached by Reid — successful the divisional circular of the playoffs.

He finished with a 60-82 grounds and 1 playoff berth implicit parts of 10 seasons arsenic a caput coach.

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Oct. 1, 2006; Orchard Park, NY: Buffalo Bills caput manager Dick Jauron during pre-game astatine Ralph Wilson Stadium successful Orchard Park, NY. (Craig Melvin-USA TODAY Sports)

Jauron’s decease came conscionable 2 days aft the Bears announced the decease of Virginia Halas McCaskey, who inherited the franchise from her father, George Halas, and spent four-plus decades arsenic the main owner.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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