List of Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coaches
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The franchise was founded as an NFL team in 1976 by Hugh Culverhouse. They lost their first 26 games and had one playoff win in its first 21 seasons before winning the Super Bowl in 2002.[1]
There have been seven head coaches for the Buccaneers franchise. The team has played over 500 games in 32 seasons since joining the NFL. Three Buccaneers coaches, John McKay, Tony Dungy, and Jon Gruden, have taken the Buccaneers to the playoffs, while only Gruden has won the Super Bowl with the team, at Super Bowl XXXVII.[2] The team's all-time leader in games coached is McKay (133) and the leader in wins is Gruden (57) plus 3 postseason victories; Dungy leads all Buccaneers coaches in winning percentage (.563).[3] Leeman Bennett has the lowest winning percentage (.125) of all Buccaneers coaches.[4] The most recent head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was Raheem Morris, who was hired on January 16, 2009, and fired on January 2, 2012.[5]
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Coaches
Note: Statistics are accurate through the 2011 NFL season.
Notes
- ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Buccaneers. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
- ^ Each year is linked to an article about that particular NFL season.
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