{"id":608172,"date":"2026-04-26T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/608172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:12:11","slug":"charlie-strong-calls-rueben-bain-a-steal-talks-rookies-background-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/608172\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Strong Calls Rueben Bain A Steal, Talks Rookie’s Background – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tCharlie Strong Calls Rueben Bain A Steal, Talks Rookie\u2019s Background
\nApril 26th, 2026 <\/p>\n

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One Todd Bowles offseason move was to oust his defensive line coach Charlie Strong, the longtime college head coach. <\/p>\n

Why the Bucs hired Strong is unclear, but that\u2019s a story for another day. Strong, though, has no hard feelings and was excited by the Bucs\u2019 selection of Miami Maulder edge rusher Rueben Bain in Round 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey could not have gotten a better steal for them,\u201d Strong told The JP Peterson Show<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s an elite player. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, we get into the character issues with him; there\u2019s no character issues with him. I know him. I know his family. There\u2019s no alcohol or drugs involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strong was at the University of Miami as the Hurricanes co-defensive coordinator & linebackers coach in 2022. Bain arrived in 2023 and Strong was part of Bain\u2019s recruitment process. He explained that Bain went to a Strong academic high school that did not have a football program, so he was allowed to play at famed Miami Central High nearby.<\/p>\n

Strong went on to rave about Bain\u2019s work ethic and he talked about how Bucs defensive tackle Calijah Kancey and Bain have a strong relationship.<\/p>\n

Bain had a strong home life with his mother working for law enforcement and his father owning a business, Strong said, and his uncle played for the University of Miami.<\/p>\n

Strong said he is surprised the Dolphins, Cowboys and Commanders didn\u2019t pick Bain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Strong Calls Rueben Bain A Steal, Talks Rookie\u2019s Background April 26th, 2026 One Todd Bowles offseason move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[5961,5960,399,398,396,397,99,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-608172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608172","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=608172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}