Joe Vitt was born on August 23,1954 and is an American professional football coach and who is the senior defensive assistant for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League.
13 Facts About Joe Vitt
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Joe Vitt was previously the assistant head coach and linebackers coach of the New Orleans Saints of the NFL.
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Joe Vitt was the interim head coach for the New Orleans Saints during the 2012 season and the St Louis Rams for their last eleven games in 2005.
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Joe Vitt was the Seattle Seahawks' strength coach when Chuck Knox came to be head coach in 1983.
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Joe Vitt moved with Knox to the Los Angeles Rams, where he worked, along with Mike Martz, on his staff from 1992 to 1994.
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Joe Vitt has been an assistant for the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers.
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Joe Vitt coached the team from Week 5 until the end of the regular season; soon afterward, Martz was fired.
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The Saints' new head coach, Sean Payton, who had never been a head coach before, chose Joe Vitt to provide a degree of experience that Payton lacked: Joe Vitt's role has been half-seriously compared to that of a consigliere in a Mafia crime family.
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In that position, Joe Vitt earned a Super Bowl ring as part of the 2009 Saints team that won Super Bowl XLIV.
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However, Joe Vitt denied the claims, and offered to take a polygraph test.
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Joe Vitt stated that witnesses of the program had lied in the investigation.
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In February 2019, Joe Vitt joined the New York Jets, where Gase had become the head coach.
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Joe Vitt was nominated for the NFL's Salute to Service award in 2012 and 2013 for his volunteer work with wounded combat veterans.