Bruce Arians steps down - moves to Front Office

[DrDawkinstein]

1 hour ago, newcam2012 said:

Disagree. Their division is terrible. They have an easy path to the playoffs. Brady the Goat still is effective and makes everyone that much better. Still have solid pieces on defense and weapons galore on offense. No way is TB a dumpster fire. In fact, they have to be one of the top 3 nfc favorites to go to the Super Bowl. 

 

100%

 

It doesnt matter who is coaching in TB right now when the division is Brady vs Winston, Mariota, and Darnold.

[TheFunPolice]

The big difference is that aside from their pathetic division, Tampa has to play an actual NFL schedule this year. It's loaded with top teams. 

 

Chiefs

Cowboys

Packers

AFC North 

NFC West 

 

Last year it was cupcake after cupcake for them. AFC East and NFC East, plus a 2nd place schedule and their division opponents. And they still didn't get the #1 seed then. 

 

Look at their 2021 schedule. It was a joke:

 

https://www.buccaneers.com/news/bucs-2021-opponents-nfl-information-nfc-afc

 

vs 2022:

 

https://www.buccaneers.com/news/tampa-bay-2022-opponents-nfl-information-nfc-afc

Edited March 31, 2022 by TheFunPolice

[msw2112]

This move makes sense on a lot of fronts:

• Arians is old and has known health problems.  Coaching an NFL team is a difficult, stressful job that involves long hours.
• Arians has had success with multiple franchises and has a ring.  He has lots of money in his pocket and has nothing left to prove.
• Bowles is a top-notch DC with head coaching experience who is highly respected and is already part of the coaching staff

What doesn't make sense is the TIMING of the move, and how it might relate to Brady's retirement and unretirement, particularly given the known friction between Brady and Arians.  Obviously, we don't know what's happening behind the scenes, but has Arians' health changed that much in the 2-3 months since the season ended?  Why didn't he just make the move then?  It's certainly possible that Brady said he'd only come back if Arians wasn't the coach, the Bucs agreed to that, but waited until now to announce it so that didn't look like Brady forced the move.  Regardless of the truth, it makes for some off-season soap-opera drama in the NFL, which is always looking for a good headline.

Edited March 31, 2022 by msw2112

[716to540]

15 hours ago, Mark Vader said:

I still can't believe this guy won a Super Bowl.

Tom Brady won the Super Bowl. Bruce was just along for the ride.

[Jauronimo]

12 hours ago, eball said:

Bowles still looks like a kid who just made a poopie in his pants. 

I think its more akin to the self satisfied look of a guy who just crop dusted a troop of girl scouts but yes, same idea.

[BillsfaninSB]

3 hours ago, TheFunPolice said:

The big difference is that aside from their pathetic division, Tampa has to play an actual NFL schedule this year. It's loaded with top teams. 

 

Chiefs

Cowboys

Packers

AFC North 

NFC West 

 

Last year it was cupcake after cupcake for them. AFC East and NFC East, plus a 2nd place schedule and their division opponents. And they still didn't get the #1 seed then. 

 

Look at their 2021 schedule. It was a joke:

 

https://www.buccaneers.com/news/bucs-2021-opponents-nfl-information-nfc-afc

 

vs 2022:

 

https://www.buccaneers.com/news/tampa-bay-2022-opponents-nfl-information-nfc-afc

Looks like I will be rooting for the Bucs several times this year.  Kind of glad Brady is back.  Wins against the Chiefs, Ravens and Bengals at home will be very helpful. 

[PromoTheRobot]

18 hours ago, aristocrat said:

Brady and him didn’t get along 

 

And that had NOTHING to do with this decision. And Brady travelled all the way to London to meet with the Glazers because he likes soccer.

[major]

18 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

I’ll buy that for a dollar 💵 

[PromoTheRobot]

1 hour ago, major said:

I’ll buy that for a dollar 💵 

 

Boston sports guys discuss this.

 

https://985thesportshub.com/episodes/bucs-choosing-brady-over-arians-the-cap-continues-to-be-crap-brady-vs-arians-national-perspective-3-31-2022-hour-3/

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

19 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

OK, let's all say it had nothing to do with Brady.

 

[Mr. WEO]

22 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

All I know is Bowles sucks as a HC.  Something tells me Brady will retire again after this season. 

 

Well he turned a 4-12 Rex team into a 10-6 team with Fitz as his QB.   But yeah!  Imagine all the playoff wins if BB coached that Jets crew of Darnold, Chris Ivory, Quincy Enunwa and the dynamic duo of Cro-well and Po-well at RB!!   Good point!

 

Anyway, Arians wasn't looking so good before Brady dropped into his generous lap.  TB still has Brady, their SB OC and DC (essentially).  What was Arians doing on game day anyway other than focusing on keeping that defibrillator centered on his precordium?

[BillsFan692]

That guy is just low energy Todd Bowles.... I would not want him to be the bills coach.

[machine gun kelly]

7 hours ago, 716to540 said:

Tom Brady won the Super Bowl. Bruce was just along for the ride.

That’s just not true.  Arians was a good and beloved coach by hi s players.  He said when he took the job that he intended to coach a couple of years, assemble an experience group of coaches and move into doing what he did.

 

he announced his retirement right after the owners meeting.  At his age, coronary history, history of cancer, can you really blame him?

[Doc Brown]

On 3/30/2022 at 11:27 PM, Big Blitz said:

Hot take.

 

Arians knows they're trading Brady and wants nothing to do with coaching Jimmy G or Tua.

 

Should be done by the draft.  

No.  Brady played this perfectly and forced Arians out after it didn't work out with the Fins (Flores lawsuit) or 49ers (Shanahan invested too much in Lance).  Never believed the retirement.  He gave Bucs ownership an ultimatum.  I'll come back if you fire Arians.  Make him an executive and a pioneer for black coaches.  Yada, yada, yada.  Brady puts butts in the stands.  Arians doesn't.  Brady and Belichick worked because they were both psychos who's whole world was football.  Arians just got in the way of him and Leftwich.