Jim Jeffcoat

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Jim Jeffcoat
Jim Jeffcoat 2012 Military Bowl.jpg
Jim Jeffcoat, 2012
Position (s):
Defensive End 		Jersey number (s):
77
born April 1, 1961 in Long Branch , New Jersey
Career information
Active : 1983 - 1997
NFL Draft : 1983 / Round: 1 / Pick: 23
College : Arizona State
Teams
Career statistics
Sacks     102.5
Interceptions     2
Touchdowns     2
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards

James Wilson Jeffcoat, Jr. (* 1. April 1961 in Long Branch , New Jersey ) is a former American American football player . He played as a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) with the Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills .

Player career

college

Jeffcoat already played football in high school and was awarded a scholarship to Arizona State University . He played four years for the Arizona State Sun Devils and was a regular for three years in the defense . Jeffcoat moved with his team in 1982 in the Fiesta Bowl . In the game, the Oklahoma State University team was beaten 32:21. Jeffcoat made an outstanding performance in this game and was elected to the Fiesta Bowl All-Time Team, which includes the best players who have ever played in the Fiesta Bowl. Jeffcoat graduated from college with a degree in business administration and communications management, but had already made a name for himself with the NFL scouts and became a professional football player.

NFL

Jeffcoat was selected in the 1983 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys as the 23rd player in the first round. The cowboys were trained by Tom Landry at the time . With him as head coach in the 1970s, the Cowboys were one of the best teams in the NFL. Landry, however, could not continue this series of successes in the following decade. In 1989, Jerry Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys. One of his first acts was the firing of Landry and the establishment of his old fellow student Jimmy Johnson as the new coach. Jones and Johnson had the plan by handing over stars like Herschel Walker to collect draft rights in order to build a new team with young, success-hungry players. These players should then be brought to the top of the league with no less powerful professionals already playing in Dallas. This task fell among other things to Jeffcoat, who held a key position in the defense of his team and helped to lead young players like Tony Tolbert and Darren Woodson to the top of the league. With this plan, the Cowboys became one of the best football teams of the 1990s.

Jeffcoat won the Super Bowl twice with the Cowboys , in Super Bowl XXVII and Super Bowl XXVIII the Buffalo Bills were beaten with 52:17 and 30:13 respectively. In the first game Jeffcoat was able to force a fumble by Frank Reich , the replacement quarterback of the Bills, which was carried by Leon Lett until shortly before the end zone of the Bills, but did not lead to a touchdown , as Don Beebee succeeded Lett the ball out of the Hand beating. In the second game Jeffcoat and Charles Haley managed to bring down the quarterback of the Bills, Jim Kelly , behind the line of scrimmage ( Sack ). The Bills then had to poke the ball and the Cowboys scored a touchdown through Emmitt Smith on their next attack series .

In 1995 Jeffcoat moved to the Buffalo Bills himself and ended his career in Buffalo in 1997 .

Jeffcoat played in the NFL for 15 years. He got 102 sacks and two interceptions . He was able to conquer eleven fumbles and score three touchdowns himself. Together with Bob Lilly , he still holds the cowboys team record of five sacks in one game, in 1986 and 1992 he scored the most sacks of his team in one season.

Coaching career

After finishing his playing career, Jeffcoat returned to the Cowboys in 1998 and was appointed assistant coach. He was responsible for training the defensive ends in Dallas until 2005. In 2008, Jeffcoat accepted an offer from the University of Houston and was responsible for the entire defensive line . In 2011 and 2012, he coached the defensive line at San José State University . In 2013 he served in the same capacity at the University of Colorado . In 2018 he was in charge of the defensive line for the Orlando Apollos from the Alliance of American Football . In 2019 he signed up as an assistant coach for the Dallas Renegades , which are based in the newly founded XFL .

Honors

Jeffcoat is on the All Star Team of the Dallas Cowboys and the Fiesta Bowl. He is also a member of the Arizona State Hall of Fame .

Others

Jeffcoat is married and has four children. He lives in Plano , Texas . His social commitment led him to take part in a "weight loss competition" for a charitable organization . He is said to have lost 50 pounds in the process.

literature

  • Jens Plassmann: NFL - American Football. The game, the stars, the stories (= Rororo 9445 rororo Sport ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-19445-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jeffcoat, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jeffcoat, James Wilson Jr. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Branch (New Jersey) , New Jersey , United States