The Buccaneers will reportedly announce that they are firing offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich. Despite being a hot commodity in head coaching searches for the past couple of years, one bad year and an 8-9 Tampa Bay record, now it is Leftwich who may be searching for a job.
The Pewter Report Twitter account stated that the Buccaneers might have been ready to fire Leftwich well before Tuesday.
Leftwich entered the league as a player back in 2003, as a quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He played for 10 seasons in the NFL with five different teams, including Tampa Bay. His coaching career started in 2016, four seasons after his retirement.
He began as a coaching intern with the Arizona Cardinals, then graduating to quarterbacks coach after just one season. In 2018, he was made the Cardinals’ interim offensive coordinator, winning enough favor to become the Bucs’ full-time OC in 2019. He would go on to win the Super Bowl as Tom Brady’s OC in the 2020-2021 season.
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