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Amos Jones
Arizona Cardinals
Date of birth: (1959-12-31) December 31, 1959 (age 64)
Place of birth: Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Career information
Status: Active (coach)
Position(s): S/RB
College: Alabama (1978-1980)
High school: Pickens Academy Carrollton, Alabama
Organizations
 As coach:
1981–1982

1983–1985

1986–1988

1989

1990–1991

1992

1993–1994

1995–1996

1997

1998

1999–2002

2003

2004–2005

2006

2007–2013

2007–2013

2013–Present
Alabama
(graduate assistant)
Temple
(tight ends coach)
Temple
(defensive line coach)
Shades Valley HS (Irondale, AL)
(assistant coach)
Alabama
(special teams coach)
Univ. of Pittsburgh
(kicking game coordinator)
Eau Gallie HS (Melbourne, FL)
(assistant coach)
Tulane
(linebackers coach)
BC Lions (CFL)
(assistant coach)
East St. John HS (Reserve, LA)
(assistant coach)
Univ. of Cincinnati
(RB/ST)
James Madison
(tight ends/ special teams coach)
Mississippi State
(special teams/ linebackers coach)
Mississippi State
(outside linebackers coach)
Pittsburgh Steelers
(asst. special teams coach))
Arizona Cardinals
(special teams coach)
Career highlights and awards

Amos Jones (born December 31, 1959 in Tallahassee, Florida) is an American football coach. Currently he is the special teams coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League.

College Playing Career[]

Jones played safety and running back at the University of Alabama, under Paul "Bear" Bryant. He graduated from Alabama in 1982 and later earned a master's degree from the same institution.[1]

Coaching career[]

Amos Jones began his NFL coaching career as an assistant special teams coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was hired on January 29, 2007.[1] He worked under special teams coach Bob Ligashesky and head coach Mike Tomlin. He had previously worked with Tomlin as well as former Steelers offensive line coach Larry Zierlein in the late 1990s at the University of Cincinnati. Other connections with the Steelers staff included serving under (former) offensive coordinator Bruce Arians when he was head coach at Temple in the 1980s and playing and coaching at Alabama during the late 1970s and early 1980s when Steelers assistant head coach John Mitchell served at the Tide's defensive line coach.

Prior to joining the Steelers, Jones had coached football for 26 years — four seasons at the high school level; 21 seasons at the college level at Alabama, Temple, Pitt, Tulane, Cincinnati, James Madison, and Mississippi State; and a single year with the Canadian Football League's BC Lions.[1]

Jones was retained by the Steelers as assistant special teams coach when Ligashesky was replaced by Al Everest as the Steeler's special teams coordinator in 2010. When Everest was fired by the team just prior to the 2012 season, Jones took over responsibility for all of the special teams.In 2013 Jones was hired by the Arizona Cardinals[2]

Personal life[]

Jones grew up in Aliceville, Alabama.[3] He is a 1978 graduate of Pickens Academy, a private school in Carrollton, Alabama.[4] He was baptized in the Southern Baptist faith on the same day as his father.[5]

Jones and his wife Stacey (formerly Stacey Merkle)[6] have four children.[1] Their oldest daughter attends the University of Alabama. The family makes their off-season home on a farm in Pickens County, Alabama located between Aliceville and Carrollton.[4]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Amos Jones (bio)". Official Website of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Steelers.com. Archived from the original on Octover 25, 2012. http://www.webcitation.org/6BgLt9izC. Retrieved Octover 25, 2012.
  2. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20130125/NEWS/130129860/1291/FRONTPAGE?tc=ar
  3. Former UA Players to Coach in Super Bowl, Tommy Deas, The Tuscaloosa News, January 26, 2009 (accessed online 2009-02-10)
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Aliceville native helps Steelers reach Super Bowl". The Commercial Dispatch. February 1, 2009. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090206174209/http://cdispatch.com/sports/article.asp?aid=104. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
  5. Stricklin, Art (January 29, 2009). "Mike Tomlin, Steelers head coach, talks about his faith". Baptist Press. http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=29752. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
  6. "New football assistants make debut under the lights". Mississippi State University Reflector. April 16, 2004. http://media.www.reflector-online.com/media/storage/paper938/news/2004/04/16/Sports/New-Football.Assistants.Make.Debut.Under.The.Lights-2538135.shtml. Retrieved 2009-02-19.


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