Jim Caldwell
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James Caldwell (born January 16, 1955) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the assistant head coach and quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. (NFL).
He served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University from 1993 to 2000, as the Indianapolis Colts' head coach from 2009 to 2011 and the Detroit Lions from 2014 to 2017.
Caldwell has been a part of two Super Bowl-winning teams in his career: as the assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach of the 2006 Colts (Super Bowl XLI) and offensive coordinator of the 2012 Baltimore Ravens.
College career
Caldwell spent four years as a defensive back for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team from 1973 to 1976.
Coaching career
Caldwell served as an assistant coach at the University of Iowa, Southern Illinois University, Northwestern University, University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Louisville, and Pennsylvania State University before being named head coach at Wake Forest University in 1993. He was the first African-American head football coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Caldwell was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society at Wake Forest in 1996.
Caldwell had an eight-year record of 26–63. He put together a spectacular passing attempt that set several school records, some of which have since been broken under Jim Grobe's successor. However, his teams seldom played well; in one year, the Demon Deacons' top rusher only had 300 yards for the entire season. In 1999, when the Deacons defeated the Aloha Bowl, he had just one winning season.
Caldwell became a quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2001 as quarterbacks coach Tony Dungy. He followed Dungy to Indianapolis in 2002 and then stayed with him for his entire time, leading the Colts to a victory in Super Bowl XLI.
Caldwell was officially appointed as the Dungy's successor-in-waiting on January 13, 2008. Dungy announced his resignation on January 12, 2009, putting Caldwell in charge of head coaching. The following day, he was officially introduced at a press conference.
Caldwell had one of the best debut seasons for a head coach in NFL history, finishing with a 14–2 record. The Colts were off to a 14-0 start. Caldwell opted (on orders from then-GM Bill Polian) to watch his starting players play out the last two games of the season, causing controversies for him and the team. On January 16, 2010, he won his first playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens. After defeating the New York Jets 30-17 in the AFC Championship Game on January 24, 2010, Caldwell became the fifth rookie head coach to lead his team to the Super Bowl. Caldwell's rookie season came to an end on February 7, 2010 with a 31–17 loss to the New Orleans Saints.
Caldwell's career includes 14 victories, his highest start by a rookie head coach. As a rookie head coach, George Seifert led the San Francisco 49ers to 14 victories as a rookie head coach in 1989. The 14 victories also tied a Colts franchise record. Caldwell is the newest rookie head coach to play in the Super Bowl as of Super Bowl LV.
In his second season as coach, the Colts set a 10-6-2 record but retained the AFC South's division championship. On January 8, 2011, the Los Angeles Giants lost their first game in the playoffs to the New York Jets, 17–16, marking the conclusion of the Peyton Manning era in Indianapolis.
The Colts fell to 2–14 in the 2011 season, but the Colts recovered to 2–14. Peyton Manning, the Colts' starting quarterback, missed the entire season due to neck surgery, and without him, the Colts seemed to be a rudderless unit. Caldwell was fired after the season. The Colts received the No. despite a league-worst record. Andrew Luck, the Stanford quarterback, has been voted to the first pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, and it will end up as Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck.
Caldwell was named quarterbacks coach by the Baltimore Ravens on January 30, 2012, thirteen days after his release from the Indianapolis Colts. The Ravens fired Cam Cameron on December 10, 2012, but Caldwell was named offensive coordinator. Caldwell, the team's permanent offensive coordinator going into the 2013 season, after defeating the New England Patriots in the AFC championship game on January 22, 2013. Caldwell led the Ravens to a 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on February 3, 2013.
Caldwell, the Detroit Lions' new head coach, was named on January 14, 2014. He was the first African American to play for the Lions.
Caldwell's first season with the Lions saw an 11–5 record and made the playoffs a wild card. The Dallas Cowboys defeated them in the first round, losing by a score of 24-20.
The Lions had struggled to a 1-7 record during the 2015 season, and both team president Tom Lewand and general manager Martin Mayhew were fired. There was rumors that Caldwell would be shot again, but the Lions defeated the Green Bay Packers for the first time since 1991. Ultimately, Detroit won 6 of their final 8 games to finish the season with a 7–9 record, while Caldwell retained his position.
In 2016, Caldwell's third season in Detroit, the Lions improved to a 9-7 record and lost to the Packers in a Week 17 game that determined the NFC North champion. The Lions won another wild card berth, but the Seattle Seahawks lost in the first round, 26–6.
Despite the Lions' winning run, the Lions went 9–7 again in 2017, a season widely regarded as disappointing. Given the Lions' appearance and belief that Caldwell's general manager Bob Quinn, who was hired during Caldwell's second season, and rumors that Caldwell's second year would have brought in a coach from his former team, the New England Patriots, there was rumors about Caldwell's future. Caldwell was fired by the Lions on January 1, 2018, a day after the season had begun. Matt Patricia, the Patriots' defensive coordinator, was named in his place the following month. Caldwell's dismissal was retrospective, owing to the team's inability during his tenure, but under Patricia, it has regressed.
Caldwell's tenure as Lions coach was 36-28 (.563), making him the first non-interim Lions coach to leave the team without a winning record since Joe Schmidt, who coached the team from 1967 to 1972. His.563 winning percentage was also the highest for a Lions head coach since Buddy Parker in the 1950s.
Caldwell was drafted by the reincarnated XFL to a commission that addressed football rules for the league after being released from Detroit at the end of the 2017 NFL season.
Caldwell was interviewed by the Green Bay Packers in December 2018 for their open head coach job that was previously held by Mike McCarthy until being allowed to go mid-season in 2018. Caldwell was also recruited for head coaching positions with the New York Jets and the Cleveland Browns.
Caldwell was hired as assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach after the Miami Dolphins signed Brian Flores as their new head coach on February 8, 2019. Caldwell will take a leave of absence to address health problems on July 13, 2019, but stayed as a consultant. Caldwell was not retained by the Dolphins after the 2019 season.
Caldwell was interviewed on January 4, 2022, to replace the Jacksonville Jaguars' head coach.
Caldwell completed an interview for the head coaching position at the Chicago Bears on January 15, 2022. New General Manager Ryan Poles later interviewed him for the second time on January 25.
Caldwell's loss of his head coaching job since 2017, as well as his dismissals from the Colts and Lions, were cited by Flores as examples of the NFL's racial discrimination in his 2022 class-action lawsuit against the NFL.