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BEN BLOOM STAFF

SCHOOL TUFTS UNIVERSITY HOMETOWN WELLESLEY, MASS. YEAR AS NFL COACH 12TH YEAR WITH THE BROWNS THIRD

SENIOR DEFENSIVE ASSISTANT

BEN BLOOM’S COACHING BACKGROUND PLAYERS 2005-07...... Tufts University, defensive line/graduate assistant 2008...... Harvard University, assistant defensive line coach 2009...... , team operations assistant/quality control coach 2010...... Cleveland Browns, defensive quality control coach 2011-13...... , defensive quality control/assistant 2014-15...... Dallas Cowboys, defensive line coach 2016-17...... Dallas Cowboys, assistant coach/special projects 2018-19...... Dallas Cowboys, linebackers coach 2020-...... Cleveland Browns, senior defensive assistant 2019 SEASON KEY NOTES • Made return to Cleveland in 2020 after breaking into the NFL with the Browns in 2009-10. • Spent nine seasons (2011-19) with the Dallas Cowboys, most recently as linebackers coach from 2018-19. • Helped develop 2018 first-round pick LB , who became the first rookie in Cowboys history to be selected to the . Vander Esch led the team with a franchise rookie record 176 tackles. • In 2019, helped LB to his first career Pro Bowl after leading Dallas with a career- high 142 tackles. • Served as assistant coach/special projects from 2016-17, advising the head coach on game

plan matchups and schemes, personnel group strategies, film and statistical analysis, game HISTORY management and situational football strategy. • Assisting the defensive line in 2015, Bloom helped DeMarcus Lawrence lead the team with eight sacks, while placing second with 31 pressures. Along with ’s six sacks, accounted for 14 of the club’s 31 sacks. • While working with the defensive ends in 2014, led the club with six sacks and 39 quarterback pressures. • Assisting the linebackers in 2012, Bloom helped DeMarcus Ware (11.5) and (11) earn Pro Bowl berths with each reaching double-digit sacks. • Served as defensive quality control coach and team operations assistant during first stint with the Browns (2009-10). During that time, he helped prepare the defense during practice and with the breakdown of film for upcoming opponents. RECORDS • Spent four years coaching in the college ranks at Tufts (2005-07) and Harvard (2008). • Three-year letter winner on the Tufts offensive line, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in history in 2005 and master’s in education in 2008. • A native of Wellesley, Mass. • Bloom and his wife, Eliot, have a daughter, Georgia, and son, Bern. GAME DAY

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