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It’s Time to Turn Attention to Bucs Coordinators
Don't be surprised if names like Randy Shannon come up as defensive assistants. (Mandatory Credit: Jonathan Brownfield-US PRESSWIRE)<a ... [visit site to read more]
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18 days ago
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At First Glance: Buccaneers Blow Coaching Search
At First Glance is a new feature on The Pewter Plank where we don’t let the news settle before we react. You get one of our writers most visceral reactions, though that does come with the caveat that when cooler heads prevail we have license to change our minds…
Schiano is finalizing a deal to coach the Bucs as we speak. (Mandatory Credit: Richard Mackson-US PRESSWIRE...
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18 days ago
Report: Buccaneers to Hire Rutgers’ Greg Schiano
Greg Schiano is potentially the Buccaneers' next head coach. (Mandatory Credit: Debby Wong-US PRESSWIRE)<img ... [visit site to read more]
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18 days ago
Off the Plank: Kevin Gilbride?
Here’s an interesting take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ coaching search. To give you a little perspective, yesterday it was reported Mike Sherman was being interviewed a second time for the Bucs head coaching job. Ira Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune tweeted late last night that he was unable to confirm the interview actually took place though. he then mentioned the possibility...
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18 days ago
‘Unknown Candidate’ Potentially in Bucs Coaching Mix
"You guys are really knocking this search out of the park." (Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee/Image of Sport-US PRESSWIRE)
Here’s another unwanted twist in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ coaching search. According to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times, though the list of finalists should be ‘obvious’ by Thursday morning, there may be a mystery candidate under...
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18 days ago
Buccaneers to Begin Candidate Elimination Thursday
Mike Sherman is looking like the guy the Bucs will hire but at this point the coach who will be hired isn't the story. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-US PRESSWIRE
TAMPA — This week on ‘Keeping Up with the Glazers’: The brothers twiddle their thumbs about hiring a new coach, make a surprise offer and drama ensues. (Cue: tables kicking over, screaming, chasing...
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18 days ago
Bucs Are Last Coachless NFL Team
The Bucs are the last team with their line in the water.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the last team with their proverbial line in the water. With the Colts’ hiring of Chuck Pagano the coaching searches of every other NFL franchise has come and gone, and yielded results. Some teams have even managed to hire GM’s in this time. And all the while the Bucs have sat around...
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18 days ago
Bucs, Sherman Talk for Second Time
Mike Sherman as coached for the Packers and with the Texans. It's looking like the Bucs will be his next NFL stop.
TAMPA — As the minutes on the tolerance clock peel away for Bucs fans, the Glazers and GM Mark Dominik seem to be nearing closer to a deal with their guy.
After the embarrassing rejection of them by Chip kelly this Monday, Tampa Bay has found itself in an awkward...
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18 days ago
Confidence Diminishing as Buccaneers’ Search Continues
The Glazers can't afford to hire the wrong guy.
Over three weeks into the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ coaching search the only thing that’s really clear is fans are losing confidence in the men that run their team. You can overhear it conversations between fans, you can hear it on the radio and you can’t miss it on Twitter.
The issue the Glazers and Mark Dominik are...
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19 days ago
The Early Read: Quinton Coples
Continuing our Early Read feature series, we look at another player the Bucs may look towards at the top of the 2012 draft.
Quinton Coples is an intriguing prospect.
If you listen to our podcast (and if you don’t, you should) you heard Josh pose a very good question in this week’s shows. What happens if, like seems to be the ill-fated case with this organization, things...
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19 days ago
Mike Sherman Named a Finalist for Buccaneers’ Head Coaching Job
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19 days ago
Glazers’ Offer Raises More Questions
The Glazers always keep things interesting.
I’m not sure there is a more confusing set of owners in all of football than the Glazers. There may be more eccentric owners, richer owners and weirder looking owners, but in terms of annually frustrating their fan-base with inconsistent logic, give the trophy to the Glazers.
Our friends at JoeBucsFan, by way of 620 AM in Tampa, are reporting...
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20 days ago
Bucs Coaching Search: Just Spinning the Tires
The Bucs aren't much closer to their next head coach.
Things are beginning to enter the realm of chaos in the Buccaneers’ coaching search. That’s not me being dramatic either, the Bucs seem to just be throwing wild shots out into the dark at this point and nobody in Tampa is going to like how things turn out.
Think about it, 72 hours ago nobody had even considered Chip Kelly...
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20 days ago
The Pewter Plank Radio Network: Chip Kelly, The Mannings and More
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20 days ago
Chip Kelly: “I Have Unfinished Business at Oregon”
Chip Kelly released a statement explaining why he turned down the Buccaneers head coaching job.
TAMPA — The Buccaneers reportedly had their man last night, but they woke up three Monday’s after firing Raheem Morris to find out the guy they thought they had, had gotten cold feet.
Chip Kelly has decided to remain at the University of Oregon, a school that he has reinvented...
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20 days ago
Opinion: Bucs Want Zimmer, Feeling May Not Be Mutual
Mike Zimmer is so honest with people it's oftentimes mean.
As the Buccaneers coaching search wears on and names are crossed off the list, both by the Bucs and other teams hiring potential candidates, one name that continues to come up is Cincinnati Bengals’ defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer.
Zimmer is a highly sought after coaching candidate with some impressive credentials and...
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20 days ago
‘Just Kidding!’ Chip Kelly Spurns Bucs
"Uhh... on second thought... NO."
Hours after the twitterverse exploded with news of the Buccaneers offering their head coaching job to Chip Kelly, the Oregon head coach has decided to stay in Eugene and pass on Tampa’s offer.
Just hours ago things looked dramatically different, with all indications pointing to Kelly becoming Raheem Morris’ replacement. However...
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21 days ago
BREAKING: Bucs ‘Finalizing Deal’ to Hire Chip Kelly
USA Today and KGW8 are reporting the Buccaneers will hire Chip Kelly as their head coach
TAMPA — The coaching search may be over. KGQ, Portland’s NBC affiliate, is reporting that the Oregon Ducks head coach is on his way to rejoining his old running back LeGarrette Blount as the head coach of the Buccaneers.
USA Today is also reporting the story along with the Tampa Times.
Kelly...
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21 days ago
Six Players the Bucs Should be Watching After the 2012 Shrine Game
Bobby Rainey could be around late in the draft.
The 2012 East-West Shrine Game took place last night at Tropicana Field in Tampa. As I mentioned earlier today, Mark Dominik is fairly skilled at working the back-end of the roster and that starts with mid-to-late round draft picks and UDFA’s. The Shrine game is a college all-star game, just not THE game (that’s next weekend...
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21 days ago
Previewing the Championship Games
We’ll take a quick break from coaching coverage and draft scouting to talk some playoffs for a second. Josh and I already discussed the games a little bit on this week’s podcast (we’ll be recording a new one tonight or tomorrow) but things change over the course of a week and it’s also fun to talk about successful teams occasionally.
AFC Championship Game...
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22 days ago
Shrine Game, Battle for Florida Mark Start of Draft Season
Lennon Creer was MVP of the Shrine Game.
Last night was a bizarre mixture of college basketball upsets and premature news of Joe Pa’s demise. But lost in the chaos were two college all-star games that marked the unofficial start of the NFL Draft season.
The East-West Shrine Game was last night in Tampa at Tropicana Field, right in the Buccaneers’ own backyard. You can...
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22 days ago
The Early Read: Cornerbacks
Kicking off our preliminary coverage is a new feature, ‘The Early Lead’ where we take a pre-combine look at different players and positions.
FSU CB Mike Harris could be a value pick in the middle rounds.
The Buccaneers have a number of needs, chief amongst them may be at corner where an aging Ronde Barber may be on the way out and Aqib Talib is anything but a certainty...
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23 days ago
Kicking it Into Draft Mode
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23 days ago
Dolphins’ Hire Removes Candidate From Bucs’ Coaching Search
Cross Joe Philbin off the list.
Yesterday evening the news leaked that the Miami Dolphins would hire Joe Philbin to be their next head coach. This seems to be a pretty solid play by the Dolphins who have a fairly decent foundation and could use Philbin’s Green Bay ties to lure the soon-to-be free agent quarterback, Matt Flynn, to Miami.
The implications for the Buccaneers aren...
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23 days ago
The Pewter Plank is Adding Staff
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23 days ago
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