{"id":394104,"date":"2026-01-08T00:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394104\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:19:08","slug":"todd-bowles-says-hell-be-back-as-the-buccaneers-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394104\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Bowles says he&#8217;ll be back as the Buccaneers&#8217; head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t look like the Buccaneers will be stepping into the hunt for John Harbaugh. <\/p>\n<p>Todd Bowles told Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/bucs\/2026\/01\/07\/todd-bowles-2026-season-nfl-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he will be back<\/a> as the head coach in Tampa for the 2026 season. The message came after Bowles met with team ownership on Tuesday and he had meetings scheduled with the team\u2019s assistant coaches on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Bowles won division titles in his first three seasons as the Bucs\u2019 head coach while going 27-24, but the team missed the playoffs with an 8-9 record and lost seven of their final nine games this season. <\/p>\n<p>Bowles said that he expects to make changes to his coaching staff, but he did not share any details of those plans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It doesn\u2019t look like the Buccaneers will be stepping into the hunt for John Harbaugh. Todd Bowles told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-394104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}