James Caldwell is an American football coach and former player. He most recently was the assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2009 to 2011 and Detroit Lions from 2014 to 2017. Caldwell is the first African-American to hold the position for the Lions, and the first American to do so in the NFL.
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James Caldwell is an American football coach and former player. He most recently was the assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. Caldwell served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University from 1993 to 2000. He was the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2009 to 2011 and Detroit Lions from 2014 to 2017. Caldwell attended the University of Iowa, where he was a four-year starter at defensive back for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team from 1973 to 1976. Caldwell shares the NFL record for the best start by a rookie head coach, starting his career with 14 wins. He helped lead the Colts to a win in Super Bowl XLI in 2002. Caldwell was fired after the 2011 season, and was named quarterbacks coach by the Baltimore Ravens on January 30, 2012. On December 10, 2012, the Ravens dismissed Cam Cameron and Caldwell the offensive coordinator.
On February 3, 2013, Jim Caldwell led the Baltimore offense to a 34–31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers at the Mercedes-Benz Superbowl XLVII. He is the first African-American to hold the position for the Lions, and the first American to do so in the NFL. Caldwell has been a part of two Super Bowl-winning teams in his career; as the assistantHead Coach and Quarterback Coach of the 2006 Colts and as offensive coordinator of the 2012 Baltimore Ravens. He has also been a head coach at Southern Illinois University, Northwestern University, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Pennsylvania State University. Caldwell is a graduate of the prestigious Omicron Delta Kappa – The National Leadership Honor Society in 1996. He also served as an assistant coach at Northwestern University and Northwestern University.
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