Taking another look at age…maybe our next coach should be a little grey

Bucs current head coaching search includes more guys like these!Sometimes in the NFL, its all about setting trends. But other times, its about busting them up. Remember the Bucs of the late 90s, running the ball with Alstott and Dunn, playing good defense, totally different than the rest of the NFL at that time? 
Or going with Jon Gruden, youngest coach, which seems to be all the rage now.

What if a young coach is exactly what the Bucs don’t need? I like to question these things, because I never assume I know the future, I know no one else does. When I watch the Bucs in their heydays (1979-1982, 1997-2007) they had some serious grey upwards in their coaching staff.

John McKay.
Monte Kiffin.

Lets be serious here for a moment, Monte Kiffin WAS the Bucs SECOND coach during his tenure here in Tampa Bay. He was given to Jon Gruden with specific instructions: Do not touch, open during playoffs 2002. Bucs defensive players of all ages respected and loved Kiffin. And there is ZERO coincidence with the Bucs fall from the top ten in defense and the leaving of Kiffin from Tampa Bay.

Peter King of SI said: “Maybe the Bucs, right now, need Mike Sherman”

Well I don’t agree with Peter King on the choice, my vote is for Marty Schottenheimer, and Bucs fans all over the message boards seem to agree. Comments on all the major Bucs publications are putting in their disdain for Philips and majorly against Sherman and absolutely against Childress. But Schottenheimer gets the nod big time for Bucs fans. 

Even if he can’t take the Bucs all the way, he can get us back to winning, then we can see from there. Remember, Tony Dungy was the right guy for the job…in 1996, but he wasnt the right guy to finish it off. The Bucs needed Gruden for that. Maybe a  Schottenheimer is what the Bucs need to get back on the winning ways…and if he cant get the Bucs over the top, there is plenty of time for the Bucs to bring in someone with more energy to do that before its too late.

Given the complete lack of youth at the interview table so far, it seems this is what the Bucs have in mind. We may as well get used to it, because in the end, thats what all the “Fire Raheem Morris” people wanted most. A coach with experience and discipline.

We’re about to get that.