{"id":436763,"date":"2026-01-29T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436763\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:49:12","slug":"report-bucs-spoke-with-sean-mcdermott-about-role-on-staff-but-hes-taking-2026-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436763\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Bucs spoke with Sean McDermott about role on staff, but he&#8217;s taking 2026 off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buccaneers had some interest in a recently fired coach to join head coach Todd Bowles\u2019 revamped 2026 staff. But at this point, that\u2019s not going to happen. <\/p>\n<p>Greg Auman of FOX Sports reported on Wednesday that Tampa Bay <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gregauman\/status\/2016585192442339416?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">talked to former Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott about a role with the franchise<\/a>. But McDermott is still planning to take 2026 off of coaching and reevaluate his options in 2027. <\/p>\n<p>It was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-sean-mcdermott-likely-to-take-a-year-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">previously reported<\/a> that even though McDermott initially planned to continue coaching, he changed his mind and was likely to take a year off. <\/p>\n<p>McDermott and Buccaneers G.M. Jason Licht were both with the Eagles from 2003-2007, with Licht working in the club\u2019s front office and McDermott on Andy Reid\u2019s coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers have new offensive and special teams coordinators under Bowles heading into 2026, with some members of the defensive staff also not retained. Tampa Bay finished a disappointing 8-9 in 2025, missing out on the postseason despite beating the Panthers in Week 18. <\/p>\n<p>McDermott should be the proverbial belle of the ball next offseason for teams that need a head coach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buccaneers had some interest in a recently fired coach to join head coach Todd Bowles\u2019 revamped 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-436763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436763","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=436763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}