Dennis Green

Dennis Green ( born February 17, 1949 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American professional American football coach. He currently coaches the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League newly established. He became known through his work at the NFL team Minnesota Vikings and the Arizona Cardinals.

Career

1981 obliged the Northwestern University Dennis Green as head coach. Previously, he was primarily coach for the offensive lines of various college teams. The Northwestern Wildcats he served for four years rather him for the first time made ​​the jump to the National Football League. The San Francisco 49ers picked up the then 37 -year-old as a running back coach. After only two years, he returned to the NFL back and coached the college football team at Stanford University.

The final leap into the NFL he made in 1992, when he took over the management of the Minnesota Vikings. This happened to be in a rather unsuccessful time with some scandals (such as the Herschel Walker Trade ). However, with Green came a remarkable turnaround. In his ten years with the Vikes he reached eight times the play-offs, but could unfortunately not feed once in the Super Bowl. He eventually left the team after a poor season in 2001.

After two seasons as an analyst for ESPN, he signed in 2004 with the Arizona Cardinals. After two highly successful years, the team moved into the newly constructed University of Phoenix Stadium to when reinforcements arrived Matt Leinart and Edgerrin James. The resulting high expectations could not keep what enticed Green to a known press conference today the team. On January 1, 2007 Green was released, his contract would have expired in 2008.

Since March 2009, he coached teams in the United Football League, currently the Sacramento Mountain Lions of California.