John Fox (football coach)
John Fox (born February 8, 1955 in Virginia Beach , Virginia ) is a retired American football player and current football coach. He was the head coach of the Chicago Bears in the National Football League (NFL).
Fox played American football in defensive backfield at San Diego State University . His coaching career began in 1985 in the short-lived United States Football League (USFL). In 1989 he moved to the NFL, where he was secondary coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers . He later did this job with the San Diego Chargers . His positions as defensive coordinator were the Los Angeles Raiders and the New York Giants . In 2002 he became Head Coach of the Carolina Panthers . Just a year later, the team made it into the Super Bowl , where it was defeated by the New England Patriots .
Fox is considered one of the NFL's more conservative head coaches. Fox is the second head coach, after Vince Lombardi , who took over a team that had only scored one win in one season and led it to the Super Bowl in its second season.
For the 2011 season , Denver's general manager John Elway signed Fox as the new head coach of the Denver Broncos . Fox led the Broncos to four AFC West championships in the years that followed . In 2014, Fox and Denver made it into Super Bowl XLVIII . There the Broncos were defeated by the Seattle Seahawks with 8:43.
On January 12, 2015, one day after the Broncos surprisingly lost 13:24 in the Divisional Play-offs to the Indianapolis Colts , the Broncos sacked John Fox after four years. From the 2015 to 2018 season , John Fox was Head Coach of the Chicago Bears .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fox, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player and current football coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Virginia Beach , Virginia , United States |