The former player and coach of the NFL, Dick Jauron, died at the age of 74 years after a brief battle against cancer.
The daily article In Massachusetts he reports that Jauron died early on Saturday morning.
After spending eight years in the League as a player, the former security enjoyed almost 30 years as NFL coach, especially taking charge of the Chicago Bears and the Buffalo Bills.
Jauron was coach of the 1999-2003 Bears, winning the coach of the year in his third season to the helm after Chicago was 13-3 and reached the divisional game of the NFC.
Three years after leaving Soldier Field, he was hired by Buffalo, where he was 24-33 before being fired in November 2009.
The former NFL player and Chief coach Dick Jauron died at the age of 74 years after a battle against cancer
Yale's alumni, who played for the Detroit Lions and Cincinnati Bengals in their own career, began as a defensive coach with the Bills in 1985 before assuming the same role with the Green Bay Packers a year later.
After nine seasons in Green Bay, he enjoyed a four -year spell as a defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Jauron then jumped to his first head training concert with the Bears before the Lions hired him as his defensive coordinator in 2004. He also served as an interim coach in Detroit for five games of the 2005 season, going 1-4.
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