List of Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coaches

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Jon Gruden was the Buccaneers' head coach between 2002 and 2008.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The franchise was founded as an NFL team in 1976 by Hugh Culverhouse. They lost their first 26 games and had one playoff win in its first 21 seasons before winning the Super Bowl in 2002.[1]

There have been ten head coaches for the Buccaneers franchise. The team has played 628 games in 40 seasons since joining the NFL. Three Buccaneers coaches, John McKay, Tony Dungy, and Jon Gruden, have taken the Buccaneers to the playoffs, while only Gruden has won the Super Bowl with the team, at Super Bowl XXXVII.[2] The team's all-time leader in games coached is McKay (133) and the leader in wins is Gruden (57) plus 3 postseason victories; Dungy leads all Buccaneers coaches in winning percentage (.563).[3] Leeman Bennett has the lowest winning percentage (.125) of all Buccaneers coaches.[4] The eighth coach, Raheem Morris, was fired on January 2, 2012.[5] On January 26, 2012 Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano was hired as the new Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach. Schiano posted a record of 11–21 during two seasons in charge, before he was fired on December 30, 2013.[6]

Key

# Number of coaches[N 1]
GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
T Ties
Win% Winning percentage
00† Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
00‡ Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player
00* Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Buccaneers

Coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through the 2015 NFL season.

# Name Term[N 2] Regular season Playoffs Achievements Reference
GC W L T Win% GC W L Win%
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1 John McKay* 1976–1984* 133 44 88 1 .333 4 1 3 .250 [7]
2 Leeman Bennett 1985–1986 32 4 28 0 .125 — [4]
3 Ray Perkins 1987–1990 60 19 41 0 .332 — [8]
4 Richard Williamson* 1990–1991* 19 4 15 0 .211 — [9]
5 Sam Wyche 1992–1995 48 23 41 0 .359 — [10]
6 Tony Dungy 1996–2001 96 54 42 0 .563 6 2 4 .333 Maxwell Football Club Coach of the Year (1997)[11] [3]
7 Jon Gruden 2002–2008 112 57 55 0 .509 5 3 2 .600 Super Bowl XXXVII Champion [12]
8 Raheem Morris* 2009–2011* 48 17 31 0 .354 — [13]
9 Greg Schiano* 2012–2013* 32 11 21 0 .344 — [14]
10 Lovie Smith 2014–2015 32 8 24 0 .250 — [15]
11 — [16]

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