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Dave McGinnis cause of death: What we know on former Cardinals coach

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What sad news for the NFL coaching world.

Veteran NFL coach Dave McGinnis, who coached the Arizona Cardinals from 2000-2003, has died at 74. The Tennessee Titans, a team McGinnis coached for and later provided broadcast commentary for on game day, confirmed the news on Monday. Titans team reporter Jim Wyatt shared that McGinnis died on Monday after dealing with "an illness that first hospitalized him in early March.

" Outside of his Cardinals head coaching stint and Titans work, he worked in Arizona as a defensive coordinator from 1996-2000 and with the Chicago Bears as a linebacker coach from 1986-1995. McGinnis finished his coaching career with the St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams in 2016 as an assistant.

"The lives he touched, and the number of people that cared about him, it's amazing really," former Titans head coach Jeff Fisher told Wyatt. "Mac treated people so well, and made everyone feel like they were important. Even in the hospital, people would stop by to see him, and he would ask about their families, their grandkids, even when he could barely speak.

He made a big impact on so many people. Everyone loved Mac. " What sad news for the NFL coaching veteran.