Team Glazer members.

This sure is a fat lump of coal in the stocking of most serious Bucs fans.

Joe hates sharing this news and destroying people’s holiday season, but Bucs insider/employee/pal of Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht said today on his streaming WFLA show that Todd Bowles is not in significant danger of losing his job as Buccaneers head coach.

Barber did not appear to be impaired.

“Look, no, we’re not in the market [for a new head coach,]” Barber said. “We’ve won three straight division titles. I get the feeling that change is not coming. Change is coming for a lot of teams, but I don’t think it’s [coming for Tampa Bay]. I’d say his seat is probably a little uncomfortable, but it ain’t hot.”

Barber went on to say he’s not overly impressed with the young offensive minds being talked about as future head coaches, including Seattle playcaller Klint Kubiak, who has a heck of a pedigree. Barber says nobody out there now has shown he’s the next Liam Coen.

“Careful what you wish for is all I’m saying with these young guys that seem hot,” Barber said.

Asked to state his level of confidence that Todd Bowles returns as head coach next year, Barber replied as follows:

“Pretty high. Pretty high. I’ll leave it at that,” Barber said. “I could be deadass wrong, but it’s pretty high. Who are you going to get?”

Barber had plenty of other thoughts about why the Bucs shouldn’t change coaches. Joe thought it was telling that never once in his four minutes of chatter on the subject did Barber say Bowles is a good head coach and/or that the thought of change is preposterous on merit.

That reminded Joe of Baker Mayfield twice being asked about fans wanting Bowles gone and Mayfield, too, never responded by saying Bowles is a good coach.

Shouldn’t that be the first and easy response when anyone is asked about a coach they want to keep?

Barber acknowledged that Team Glazer has not called him to advise him that Bowles will be fired.

How down are Bucs fans on the current team? Joe will defer to Monday’s flash poll. Most fans don’t want the team to make the playoffs.

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