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Tony Wise

Tony Wise

Position: Offensive Line
Jets Seasons: 2
NFL Coaching seasons: 19
Age: 57

Wise joins the Jets after most recently coaching the offensive line for the Miami Dolphins in 2001-04. In 2002, his unit helped pave the way for an AFC-best 156.5 yards rushing per game. Prior to joining Miami he served in the same capacity with the Carolina Panthers (1999-2000) after spending six seasons with the Chicago Bears, four of which he also served as the assistant head coach. Wise entered the NFL in 1989 with the Dallas Cowboys and worked on head coach Jimmy Johnson's staff through 1992, earning a ring after the Cowboys' Super Bowl XXVI win over the Buffalo Bills. He then departed for Chicago, where he first served as the Bears' offensive line coach from 1993-94 and then added the duties of assistant head coach to his responsibilities through 1998, before taking the offensive line position with the Panthers.

Wise, a former offensive lineman at Ithaca College, is a native of Newtonville, NY, and began his coaching career in 1973 at Albany State. Then he spent a year each at Bridgeport, Central Connecticut and Washington State before moving onto the University of Pittsburgh (1977-78) before heading to Oklahoma State (1979-83), Syracuse (1984) and the University of Miami (1985-88).