John Idzik begins his fourth season with the Seahawks after joining the club on February 16, 2007. Prior to joining the Seahawks he spent three seasons as Senior Director of Football Operations for the Arizona Cardinals. With Seattle, Idzik oversees player negotiations, the team's compliance with the NFL salary cap and player personnel transactions, football operations budgets, staff and team contracts, team travel and several aspects of the day-to-day football operation.
Idzik entered the NFL in 1993 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He spent 11 years with the club, first as a pro personnel assistant and then was elevated to director of football administration in 1996 and assistant general manager in 2001. Prior to joining the Buccaneers, Idzik spent the 1991-92 seasons as a graduate assistant at Duke University, where he coached the offensive line. In 1990 he was the offensive backfield coach for the Aberdeen Oilers (Scotland) of the British American Football League. Idzik's first coaching assignment came in 1982 as the receivers coach at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Raised in a football family, Idzik's father, John, was the head coach of that Aberdeen club after serving as an NFL assistant coach with the Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, and N.Y. Jets. They became one of the NFL's few father-son Super Bowl champions in 2002 when Idzik's Buccaneers won Super Bowl XXXVII, as his father was the offensive backfield coach of the 1970 world champion Baltimore Colts. A native of Detroit, Idzik graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1982, where he also played wide receiver. He later earned a master's degree in liberal studies from Duke University in 1992.
Idzik and his wife, Carol, have two sons, Bryant and Bradley, and a daughter, Holly.
John Idzik begins his fourth season with the Seahawks after joining the club on February 16, 2007. Prior to joining the Seahawks he spent three seasons as Senior Director of Football Operations for the Arizona Cardinals. With Seattle, Idzik oversees player negotiations, the team's compliance with the NFL salary cap and player personnel transactions, football operations budgets, staff and team contracts, team travel and several aspects of the day-to-day football operation.
Idzik entered the NFL in 1993 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He spent 11 years with the club, first as a pro personnel assistant and then was elevated to director of football administration in 1996 and assistant general manager in 2001. Prior to joining the Buccaneers, Idzik spent the 1991-92 seasons as a graduate assistant at Duke University, where he coached the offensive line. In 1990 he was the offensive backfield coach for the Aberdeen Oilers (Scotland) of the British American Football League. Idzik's first coaching assignment came in 1982 as the receivers coach at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Raised in a football family, Idzik's father, John, was the head coach of that Aberdeen club after serving as an NFL assistant coach with the Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, and N.Y. Jets. They became one of the NFL's few father-son Super Bowl champions in 2002 when Idzik's Buccaneers won Super Bowl XXXVII, as his father was the offensive backfield coach of the 1970 world champion Baltimore Colts. A native of Detroit, Idzik graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1982, where he also played wide receiver. He later earned a master's degree in liberal studies from Duke University in 1992.
Idzik and his wife, Carol, have two sons, Bryant and Bradley, and a daughter, Holly.
