Jim O'Neil (American football)
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| Detroit Lions | |
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| Title | Assistant head coach/safeties |
| Personal information | |
| Born | October 26, 1978 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Career information | |
| College | Towson |
| Career history | |
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| Coaching profile at Pro Football Reference | |
Jim O'Neil (born October 26, 1978) is an American football coach who currently is the defensive assistant for the Detroit Lions. Previously he was the defensive coordinator at Northwestern University and as assistant coach in the NFL for the New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, the San Francisco 49ers and Las Vegas Raiders. He was a coach for numerous college football teams before that.
From 2006 to 2008, he was at Eastern Michigan as the recruiting coordinator and safeties coach. He was the defensive coordinator at Towson in 2005, a graduate assistant/defensive back coach at Northwestern from 2003 to 2004, assistant offensive line coach at Pennsylvania in 2002 and an assistant offensive line/tight ends coach at SUNY Albany in 2001. O'Neil returned to Northwestern as the defensive coordinator for the 2021 and 2022 seasons.[1]