Michael Sinclair (American Football)
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Michael Glenn Sinclair (born January 31, 1968) is an American former professional
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player and coach. He played as a
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for 11 seasons in the
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(NFL) with the
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and the
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. He was selected in the sixth round of the
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by the Seahawks. Sinclair was a three-time
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er in
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
,
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
and
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
. He led the NFL in sacks in 1998 with 16.5, which is also the Seahawks single-season franchise record. After his playing career, Sinclair won the
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as the defensive line coach for the Hamburg Sea Devils in
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in 2007. He was named the defensive line coach for the
Montreal Alouettes The Montreal Alouettes (Canadian French, French: ''Les Alouettes de Montréal'') are a professional Canadian football team based in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 1946, the team has disbanded twice and been re-established thrice. The Alouettes compe ...
in January 2008, where he spent five seasons and won two
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championships. On January 18, 2013, Sinclair followed Alouettes head coach
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to the
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. Sinclair was fired on January 25, 2014.


Honors

* 1990 AP Little All-American Team * Lone Star conference best NFL Players Team * Eastern New Mexico Hall OF * CBS greatest draft picks of the modern NFL #155 * 4 greatest-value NFL Draft picks in Seattle Seahawks history * 1998 NFL defensive player of the year finalist * Seahawks All-time Goat Team * NFL ranked 43rd All-time (forced fumbles) * Most sacks of any member of the entire 1991 draft class * Sacked John Elway more than any other player * Sports Illustrated NFL Mid-season 1st Team * Seahawks Top Ten Defensive Players of All-time * Seahawks All-time Team


References

1968 births Living people Players of American football from Galveston, Texas American football defensive ends American expatriate sportspeople in Germany Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds football players Seattle Seahawks players Sacramento Surge players Philadelphia Eagles players American Conference Pro Bowl players Hamburg Sea Devils coaches Montreal Alouettes coaches Chicago Bears coaches Saskatchewan Roughriders coaches Players of Canadian football from Texas 20th-century American sportsmen {{Canadianfootball-defensive-lineman-stub