Cincinnati Bengals Team | Bengals.com

A Bengals assistant from 1997-2010, Sigismondo "Louie" Cioffi returned to Cincinnati in 2021 after more than a decade away, and serves as defensive quality control coach. 2023 will be his 17th Bengals season, and 27th as an NFL coach.

A Bengals assistant from 1997-2010, Sigismondo "Louie" Cioffi returned to Cincinnati in 2021 after more than a decade away, and serves as defensive quality control coach. 2023 will be his 17th Bengals season, and 27th as an NFL coach.

In 2021, Cioffi helped the Cincinnati defense allow the fifth-fewest rushing yards per game in the NFL (102.5). The Bengals also recorded the 11th-most sacks in the league (41), led by free agent acquisition DE Trey Hendrickson, who logged 14 — a career high, the fifth-most in the NFL and the second-most in a single season in team history. The defense stepped up with several marquee plays during the team's postseason run to an AFC Championship and an appearance in Super Bowl LVI. Its eight interceptions over four games were the most by any team in a single postseason since Green Bay in 2010, and they had multiple picks in the AFC Divisional, AFC Championship and Super Bowl.

In 2020, Cioffi served as defensive coordinator of the XFL's D.C. Defenders. He helped the team to a first-place finish in the XFL East, as the defense ranked second in the league in both third-down and red-zone percentage. In 2019, he was defensive coordinator/ linebackers coach of the AAF's Atlanta Legends, and helped the team lead the league in both total defense and passing defense. Prior to his time with the Defenders and Legends, he spent the 2018 season as defensive coordinator at Southeastern Louisiana University.

His last NFL assignment was in 2016, when he was defensive backs coach for the Cleveland Browns. There, he guided the development of CB Briean Boddy-Calhoun, who tied for the NFL rookie lead in INTs (three). From 2014-15, he was defensive backs coach for the Tennessee Titans, helping the 2015 team allowed the seventh-fewest passing yards per game (229.9) in the NFL.

Cioffi also spent the 2013 NFL season with the Browns, where he served as defensive backs coach and helped the team rank eighth in the NFL in passing yards per game (221.1). He also guided CB Joe Haden and S T.J. Ward to their first career Pro Bowl selections.

From 2011-12, Cioffi was defensive backs coach with the Arizona Cardinals. Under his guidance, the 2012 Cardinals allowed the lowest passer rating (71.2) in the NFL, while ranking second in interceptions (22), second in third-down efficiency (32.9 percent), fourth in takeaways (33) and fifth in pass yards per game (200.8). He also aided in the development of CB Patrick Peterson, who earned his first two Pro Bowl nods (2011-12) under Cioffi.

Cioffi's first stint with the Bengals came from 1997-2002, and he began his role on staff at age 23 as the youngest full-time assistant coach in the NFL. He started off his Bengals tenure as defensive staff assistant (1997-2000) and defensive assistant ('01-02), before moving into the role of assistant defensive backs coach (2003-10). In his seven years as DBs coach, Cioffi helped the Bengals rank fifth in the NFL in interceptions (150), and he oversaw the development of CBs Deltha O'Neal, Tory James, Leon Hall and Johnathan Joseph, and safeties Madieu Williams, Chinedum Ndukwe, Chris Crocker and Roy Williams. His work with the DBs culminated in 2009, when the defense ranked fourth in the NFL in fewest yards allowed (301.4 per game), sixth in fewest passing yards allowed (203.1), and sixth in fewest points allowed (18.2). The 2009 pass defense ranking was Cincinnati's highest since 1993.

Cioffi was wide receivers coach at C.W. Post University in Brookville, N.Y. in 1995 and '96. The 1996 team won the ECAC Division II championship.

Prior to his time at C.W. Post, Cioffi served in 1993-94 as a 20 and 21-year-old assistant to Bruce Coslet's coaching staff on the N.Y. Jets. Then, in 1997 when he took over full-time as Bengals head coach, Coslet brought Cioffi on board as part of a reorganization of the coaching staff.

Cioffi was born Sept. 21, 1973, in Queens, N.Y. and attended college at SUNY-Stony Brook. His wife's name is Cindy. They have two daughters, Cecilia Elle and Corrine, and a son, Sigismondo Connor.