12 Facts About Mike Westhoff

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Mike Westhoff was born on January 10,1948 and is an American football coach who is the assistant head coach for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League.

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Mike Westhoff joined the Jets staff in 2001 after spending the previous 15 seasons in a similar capacity with the Miami Dolphins.

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Mike Westhoff stepped down as the special teams coach for the New York Jets in December 2007 after the final game.

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Mike Westhoff remained with the team through 2011, which he announced would likely be his final year with the team.

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On November 15,2017 the New Orleans Saints had hired Mike Westhoff to join their special teams coaching staff for the remainder of the 2017 season.

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The next day, Saints head coach Sean Payton said that Mike Westhoff would be responsible for supervising all the special teams units.

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Mike Westhoff was hired to be the assistant head coach of the Denver Broncos under new head coach, Sean Payton, on February 25,2023.

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In 1988, Mike Westhoff was diagnosed with cancer of the femur in his left leg.

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Originally, the condition was misdiagnosed and Mike Westhoff was nearly fatally wounded after the doctor accidentally cut one of his arteries.

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Once the correct diagnosis was made Mike Westhoff underwent ten surgeries to remove the cancer and the bone replacing it with bone grafts, plates, screws and pins.

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In 2008, Mike Westhoff entered the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to undergo a procedure to replace the missing femur with a titanium rod.

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Mike Westhoff is a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.