In relation to NFL teaching staffs, how do the Bucs rank?
This query is a tough one, however one which ESPN’s Ben Solak has tried to not too long ago reply by going over all 32 groups within the league. With head coach Todd Bowles coming off his most profitable season main a workforce, there may be purpose for optimism. With Liam Coen employed as offensive coordinator, there may be additionally some degree of uncertainty about what to anticipate on that facet of the ball.
Did each of those think about and have an effect on the workforce’s total rankings? Let’s examine in.
Bucs Teaching Workers Ranks twenty second In NFL, 2nd In NFC South
Bucs HC Todd Bowles – Picture by: Cliff Welch/PR
The Bucs teaching employees checked in at No. 22 in Ben Solak’s rankings.
By way of the place that ranks within the NFC South, the Saints are available in at No. 29, the Panthers at No. 27, and the Falcons, with a brand new head coach and two new coordinators, place simply forward of them at No. 21. That is the start of Solak’s reasoning, with one knock specifically bumping Bowles again a bit.
Can somebody get Bowles a recreation administration assistant so I can bump the Buccaneers additional up this record? He ended the Bucs’ season with a timeout in his pocket, forgoing the possibility for a Hail Mary or related miracle within the divisional spherical of the playoffs? That is one other in a protracted line of maddening clock administration selections from Bowles, who has truly gotten wiser to the fourth-down gag however nonetheless repeatedly mishandles end-of-half scoring conditions to the detriment of his workforce.
Bowles has coordinated some nice defenses in his day, however he has at all times underwhelmed as a head coach. The 2023 Buccaneers are definitely his greatest success story thus far, and if he can climate the departure of Dave Canales (and some offensive assistants Canales poached) to Carolina, then I’m keen to entertain the possibility he has come across the nook as a head man. However that is at all times the concern with a defensive head coach: An excessive amount of of his success depends on discovering a very good offensive coordinator, and when he does, that man is whisked away after only one season.
After Dave Canales was “whisked away” by the Panthers this offseason to be their head coach, Liam Coen was employed away from Kentucky to take his place. After working beneath Sean McVay with the Rams and being their offensive coordinator in 2021, Coen had two stints with Kentucky (2021 and 2023) to realize additional playcalling expertise. As a younger offensive thoughts, he does carry a special degree of data that may improve the offense.
Then once more, Solak raises the query of how his earlier expertise will translate.
Bucs OC Liam Coen – Picture by: Cliff Welch/PR
An fascinating candidate right here in Coen, who used his Sean McVay connection to get an offensive coordinator job at Kentucky in 2021 (went nice, ask Will Levis). In 2022, he took the coordinator job beneath Sean McVay in Los Angeles (the worst offense of McVay’s whole Rams tenure, although they had been tremendous injured). Then, in 2023, he went again to Kentucky because the offensive coordinator once more (not practically pretty much as good), and now he’s Tampa Bay’s coordinator.
I don’t actually know what to do with this info. Coen’s most spectacular work was adapting the Jared Goff-McVay offense to the school ranks, which is a tough factor to tug off. However I’m unsure how effectively his success there predicts his success operating an NFL offense for Baker Mayfield, who wants extra than simply Goff’s biggest hits to achieve success in Tampa Bay. The actual factor that wants fixing in Tampa? The operating recreation. Coen has been a passing recreation coordinator and quarterbacks coach his entire life.
Solak brings up sound factors, however ones that may be unraveled a bit. Coen did herald Kevin Carberry as his offensive line coach, and already the offensive line and operating backs look to be extra in sync if the preseason is to be believed. He didn’t rank every place coach, however Carberry – together with extensive receivers coach Bryan McClendon – might be essential in realizing the offense’s success this season. If Todd Bowles exhibits additional enchancment in recreation administration, he together with the teaching employees might be within the high half of the NFL this time subsequent yr.
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