{"id":360532,"date":"2026-08-02T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360532\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:24:08","slug":"bucs-added-a-speed-coach-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360532\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Added A Speed Coach – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tBucs Added A Speed Coach
\nAugust 2nd, 2026 <\/p>\n

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This fits into the enhanced attention to football detail at One Buc Palace this year.<\/p>\n

Joe was intrigued yesterday hearing Todd Bowles tell Inside Football<\/a> \u201cwe got a speed coach in here\u201d as a part of a broader plan to prevent injury.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no mention on the Buccaneers\u2019 official website about a speed coach hiring or position, and the Bucs\u2019 new head strength and conditioning coach was an in-house promotion and his assistant was on staff last year.<\/p>\n

Back in 2019, Bucco Bruce Arians arrived in Tampa with Roger Kingdom, the former U.S. Olympic gold medal hurdler and college football player. He was the Bucs\u2019 speed coach into 2021.<\/p>\n

Joe loves the \u201cspeed coach\u201d addition \u2014 whomever it may be. Running is a massive part of football, especially defensive football. Not coaching the finer points of that skill would be an opportunity lost.<\/p>\n

Joe sees the Bucs\u2019 2026 emphasis on details while watching Danny Smith coach special teams. The situational work and the pace of those periods has a very fresh look and feel from past year. There are other examples, too. The Bucs\u2019 head strength coach, Chad Wade, also has drawn raves from players for tweaks to that process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bucs Added A Speed Coach August 2nd, 2026 This fits into the enhanced attention to football detail at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10998,10997,135,2964,137,136],"class_list":["post-360532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}