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 twelve head coaches for the Buccaneers franchise. The team has played 628 games in 40 seasons since joining the NFL. Five Buccaneers coaches, John McKay, Tony Dungy, Jon Gruden, Bruce Arians, and Todd Bowles have taken the Buccaneers to the playoffs, with Gruden and Arians being the only two coaches to win the Super Bowl with the team, at Super Bowl XXXVII and Super Bowl LV respectively.[2] The team's all-time leader in games coached is McKay (133) and the leader in wins is Gruden (57); Arians leads all Buccaneers coaches in winning percentage (.633).[3] Leeman Bennett has the lowest winning percentage (.125) of all Buccaneers coaches.[4]
# | Number of coaches[N 1] |
Yrs | Years coached |
First | First season coached |
Last | Last season coached |
GC | Games Coached |
W | Wins |
L | Loses |
T | Ties |
Win% | Win – Loss percentage |
† | Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach |
* | Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Buccaneers |
# | Image | Name | Term[N 2] | Regular season | Playoffs | Accomplishments | Ref. | ||||||||
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Yrs | First | Last | GC | W | L | T | W% | GC | W | L | |||||
1 | John McKay* | 9 | 1976 | 1984 | 133 | 44 | 88 | 1 | .335 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 NFC Central Championships (1979, 1981) 3 Playoff Berths |
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2 | Leeman Bennett | 2 | 1985 | 1986 | 32 | 4 | 28 | 0 | .125 | — | [6] | ||||
3 | Ray Perkins | 4 | 1987 | 1990[N 3] | 60 | 19 | 41 | 0 | .317 | — | [7] | ||||
4 | Richard Williamson* | 2 | 1990[N 3] | 1991 | 19 | 4 | 15 | 0 | .211 | — | [8] | ||||
5 | Sam Wyche | 4 | 1992 | 1995 | 64 | 23 | 41 | 0 | .359 | — | [9] | ||||
6 | Tony Dungy † | 6 | 1996 | 2001 | 96 | 54 | 42 | 0 | .563 | 6 | 2 | 4 | Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (2016) 1 NFC Central Championship (1999) 4 Playoff Berths 1 Maxwell Football Club Coach of the Year (1997)[10] |
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7 | Jon Gruden | 7 | 2002 | 2008 | 112 | 57 | 55 | 0 | .509 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 Super Bowl Championship (XXXVII) 1 NFC Championship (2002) 3 NFC South Championships (2002, 2005, 2007) 3 Playoff Berths |
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8 | Raheem Morris | 3 | 2009 | 2011 | 48 | 17 | 31 | 0 | .354 | — | [13] | ||||
9 | Greg Schiano* | 2 | 2012 | 2013 | 32 | 11 | 21 | 0 | .344 | — | [14] | ||||
10 | Lovie Smith | 2 | 2014 | 2015 | 32 | 8 | 24 | 0 | .250 | — | [15] | ||||
11 | Dirk Koetter* | 3 | 2016 | 2018 | 48 | 19 | 29 | 0 | .396 | — | [16] | ||||
12 | Bruce Arians | 3 | 2019 | 2021 | 49 | 31 | 18 | 0 | .633 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 Super Bowl Championship (LV) 1 NFC Championship (2020) 1 NFC South Championship (2021) 2 Playoff Berths |
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13 | Todd Bowles | 2 | 2022 – present | 34 | 17 | 17 | 0 | .500 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 NFC South Championships (2022, 2023) 2 Playoff Berths |
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