Former New York Giants defensive coordinator and interim head coach, Steve Spagnuolo, has been named a recipient of the 2024 PFWA Dr. Z Award.
Spagnuolo, who at present serves as defensive coordinator for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, gained the award alongside Tennessee Titans offensive line coach Invoice Callahan.
The Dr. Z Award is given for lifetime achievement as an assistant coach within the NFL. The award is called for (Paul) Zimmerman, who coated the NFL for 29 years as Sports activities Illustrated’s lead professional soccer author. His impression on the writing and soccer industries was profound.
Zimmerman is extensively thought-about among the best soccer writers of all time, and his 1970 “A Considering Man’s Information to Professional Soccer” and revised 1984 “The New Considering Man’s Information to Professional Soccer” are textbooks to today for younger soccer writers making an attempt to be taught the sport and making an attempt to be taught to jot down in regards to the recreation.
He began to cowl the NFL in 1966, and he began at Sports activities Illustrated in 1979. Zimmerman stayed at SI till his writing profession was reduce brief by a sequence of strokes in November 2008. He served as PFWA president in the course of the 1982 season.
Spagnuolo served two stints because the Giants’ defensive coordinator from 2007-2008 and once more from 2015-2017. He was interviewed for the full-time head teaching job in 2018 however was in the end handed over in favor of Pat Shurmur, who didn’t retain him.
Spagnuolo took over as Chiefs defensive coordinator in 2019 and has gone on to win three Tremendous Bowl titles with the staff, bringing his profession whole to 4.