James Paul Lake was born on December 17,1976 and is an American football coach who is a senior defensive assistant for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League.
16 Facts About Jimmy Lake
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Jimmy Lake has coached at both the National Football League and college football levels, primarily overseeing defensive backs.
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Jimmy Lake attended North Central High School in Spokane, Washington, was a three-sport letterman for the Indians, and was recognized as a scholar-athlete.
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Jimmy Lake played college football for Eastern Washington University in nearby Cheney as a strong safety from 1995 to 1998, where he was an honorable-mention All-Big Sky recipient, team captain, and named to the All-Big Sky Conference Academic Team.
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Jimmy Lake returned to coaching for the 2000 season when Eastern Washington hired him as their defensive backs coach, replacing Randy Hanson.
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Jimmy Lake stayed at Eastern Washington until 2004 when the University of Washington, located in Seattle, hired him as defensive backs coach.
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Jimmy Lake landed at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, under defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski and head coach Mike Kramer, both of whom had been at Eastern Washington during Jimmy Lake's playing days.
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Jimmy Lake left after two years to coach defensive backs with the Detroit Lions, one of several Bucs assistants hired away by head coach Rod Marinelli, a long-time defensive line coach at Tampa Bay.
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Jimmy Lake returned to Tampa Bay for the 2010 and 2011 seasons as defensive backs coach under Raheem Morris, who had replaced Gruden as head coach in 2009.
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In 2012 and 2013 Jimmy Lake worked as the defensive backs coach for Boise State.
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Jimmy Lake joined the Washington Huskies staff in 2014 as a defensive backs coach under head coach Chris Petersen.
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On December 2,2019, Petersen announced he would step down as Washington's head coach at the end of the 2019 season, and Jimmy Lake would be his successor.
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Washington suspended Jimmy Lake without pay on November 8,2021, after he tried to separate a player from a sideline scrum by hitting him in the facemask, then shoving him in the back as he tried to walk away, the previous weekend.
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On February 16,2023, Jimmy Lake was hired as assistant head coach by the Los Angeles Rams.
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On January 29,2024, Jimmy Lake was hired to be the defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons.
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Jimmy Lake followed head coach Raheem Morris to Atlanta having served on staff with him both with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Los Angeles Rams.