The Tampa Bay Buccaneers once again are on the hunt for a new offensive coordinator.
On Thursday, the team fired Josh Grizzard after the assistant coach’s lone season in the role, according to multiple reports. Tampa Bay now will search for their fifth different offensive coordinator in five years.
Grizzard, who had previously served as the team’s pass game coordinator, took over an attack that had earned head-coaching jobs for his predecessors, Liam Coen (Jacksonville Jaguars) and Dave Canales (Carolina Panthers) after just one season. But after a hot initial start, an injury-riddled attack floundered down the stretch and finished ranked 21st in total offense.
Tampa Bay’s four-year reign atop the NFC South came to an end Sunday, when the Atlanta Falcons’ win over the New Orleans Saints created a three-way tie for first that conferred the division crown to the Carolina Panthers.
Before his own return was cemented Wednesday, Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles alluded to potential staff changes.
‘We’ll evaluate that in the next coming days, seeing exactly what needs to be changed,’ Bowles said in a Monday news conference. ‘Schematically, I know I need to make some changes depending on the players that we have coming back. Coaching-wise, we need to make some changes as a whole as far as what we’re doing on the field and how we’re teaching guys certain things.’
The Buccaneers are also parting ways with quarterbacks coach Thad Lewis, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
Senior offensive consultant Tom Moore, who has coached in the NFL for 46 years, also told the Tampa Bay Times he is retiring.