Dick Jauron, coach of the defensive backs of Green Bay Packers from 1986 to 1994, died early Saturday morning on February 8, after a brief battle against cancer, the daily of Lynn reported, Mass., Reported.
Jauron, who grew up in Lynn and attended Swampcott high school nearby, was 74 years old. During the last week, it was diagnosed with brain cancer that had spread to other parts of his body, a girl said.
Jauron was hired by head coach Forrest Gregg and preserved by two successors, Lindy Infante and Mike Holmgren, who was a rarity and who is still in the NFL, and a testimony of his coaching capacities.
“You are not retained unless you are a very good coach, and even then, it is not a guarantee,” said Sharon Raboin Dick Steinberg, then Director General of New York Jets, Sharon Raboin From Green Bay Press-Gazette when Holmgren held Jauron in 1992.
“I chose him because he was the best absolute man for work,” he also told the press at the time. “He is a quality person, and I think we are very similar in coaching philosophy.”
Jauron played university football in Yale and eight years in the NFL, including the first five, from 1973 to 1977, with Detroit, where he faced the packers twice a season. Free security among the pros, Jauron ended his career with Cincinnati.
Jauron began his coach career in 1985 as a defensive assistant with the Buffalo Bills. After spending nine years with packers, he was a defensive coordinator in Jacksonville from 1995 to 1998, Detroit from 2004 to 2005 and Cleveland from 2011-12.
Jauron was also chicago head coach from 1999 to 2003 and with Buffalo from 2006 to 2009. In addition, he was acting head coach in Detroit for five games in 2005 and also assistant trainer and defensive back coach For Philadelphia in 2010.
