Vance Desmond Joseph was born on September 20,1972 and is an American football coach and former player who is the defensive coordinator of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League.
26 Facts About Vance Joseph
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Vance Joseph was the starting quarterback for three seasons for the Archbishop Shaw High School Eagles.
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Vance Joseph garnered USA Today honorable-mention All-America honors as a senior and finished as 4A state runner-up to Ruston High School.
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Vance Joseph attended the University of Colorado, and played for the Colorado Buffaloes football team as a quarterback and running back from 1990 to 1994.
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Vance Joseph played in 30 games for the Buffs as a backup to All-Americans Darian Hagan and Kordell Stewart.
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Vance Joseph completed 34-of-61 career passes for 454 yards with four touchdowns in addition to rushing 50 times for 237 yards with one touchdown during his college career.
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Vance Joseph was a member of the 1990 National Championship team.
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Vance Joseph graduated from the Leeds School of Business with a degree in marketing in 1994.
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Vance Joseph was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 1995 and switched to the defensive back position.
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Vance Joseph played two seasons in the National Football League for the New York Jets and Indianapolis Colts.
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Vance Joseph became a graduate assistant for the Colorado Buffaloes in 1999 and was there until 2001.
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Vance Joseph spent the 2004 season as the defensive backs coach for the Bowling Green Falcons.
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On February 17,2005, Vance Joseph was hired by the San Francisco 49ers as a secondary assistant.
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Vance Joseph joined the coaching staff of the Houston Texans in 2011.
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Vance Joseph served as the defensive backs coach under defensive coordinator Wade Phillips and head coach Gary Kubiak.
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Vance Joseph helped the Texans to three consecutive top-seven NFL rankings in overall defense.
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Vance Joseph was hired as the defensive backs coach of the Cincinnati Bengals in January 2014.
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Vance Joseph was announced as the defensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins for the 2016 season under head coach Adam Gase.
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Vance Joseph oversaw a defense that played a key role in the Dolphins returning to the playoffs for the first time in eight seasons.
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The Dolphins won nine of their final 11 regular-season games in 2016 with Vance Joseph's defense accounting for the fourth-most takeaways in the NFL during that stretch.
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Vance Joseph was hired as head coach for the Denver Broncos on January 11,2017, after signing a four-year contract.
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Vance Joseph is the second African American head coach in Broncos history, after Eric Studesville was interim head coach for 4 games in 2010, and their first African-American head coach on a permanent basis.
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On December 31,2018, Vance Joseph was fired by the team.
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On January 11,2019, Vance Joseph was hired by the Arizona Cardinals as their defensive coordinator under head coach Kliff Kingsbury.
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Vance Joseph was placed on administrative leave, but after one of the two women involved said she did not want to press charges and the other declined to talk to police, the case was closed and Vance Joseph was not charged.
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Vance Joseph left the University of Colorado and took a job with Bowling Green shortly afterwards.