{"id":397266,"date":"2026-01-09T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397266\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:17:14","slug":"major-shakeup-to-defensive-staff-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397266\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Shakeup To Defensive Staff &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tMajor Shakeup To Defensive Staff<br \/>\nJanuary 8th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bowles-1215.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-390211\" class=\"wp-image-390211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bowles-1215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-390211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defensive staff purge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The last one out, please flip the light switch off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Per Aileen Hnatiuk of WFLA-TV Channel 8, the Bucs\u2019 defensive staff is going to look much different in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AileenHnatiuk\/status\/2009332498350875071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">coaches moving on<\/a> from the defensive side of the ball (so far):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">* Safeties coach Nick Rapone is retiring.<br \/>* Cornerbacks coach Kevin Ross is gone.<br \/>* Defensive line coach Charlie Strong is gone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It almost smells like Team Glazer told Bowles that he and offensive line coach Kevin Carberry and running backs coach Skip Peete can stay, pending who the new offensive coordinator wants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No word yet on outside linebackers coach Larry Foote, inside linebackers coach Mike Caldwell, and others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Though no announcement has been made, Joe hopes Team Glazer is forcing Bowles to accept a new defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major Shakeup To Defensive Staff January 8th, 2026 Defensive staff purge. The last one out, please flip the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5961,5960,349,99,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-397266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397266","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=397266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}