{"id":662151,"date":"2026-01-07T21:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/662151\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:54:15","slug":"todd-bowles-will-be-back-as-buccaneers-coach-in-2026-but-staff-changes-appear-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/662151\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Bowles will be back as Buccaneers coach in 2026, but staff changes appear likely"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>\u00a0coach Todd Bowles told reporters on Monday that he has\u00a0earned the chance<\/a> to remain as the Bucs lead man in 2026 following an 8-9 campaign, pointing to his three straight division titles as a reason why. On Wednesday, we learned that Bowles will indeed be back for his fifth season, per CBS Sports NFL insider Jonathan Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bowles reportedly met with the Glazer family on Tuesday, and conducted interviews with his coaching staff on Wednesday. He also told\u00a0the Tampa Bay Times<\/a>\u00a0that there will be some changes made to his coaching staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This season marks the first time that the Bucs missed the playoffs in the Bowles era. Tampa Bay started the 2025 campaign 6-2 and looked like it had an MVP frontrunner in quarterback Baker Mayfield<\/a>. However, after their Week 9 bye, the Bucs lost seven of their remaining nine games. That includes four straight losses from Weeks 14-17 to the New Orleans Saints<\/a>, Atlanta Falcons<\/a>, Carolina Panthers<\/a> and Miami Dolphins<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That four-week stretch was a tough one that ultimately decided the Bucs’ season. In Week 15, Bowles’ defense allowed Kirk Cousins<\/a> to convert a fourth-and-14 late in the fourth quarter to set up a Falcons game-winning field goal. In Week 16, Mayfield threw an interception while attempting to lead a game-winning drive against the Panthers. Then in Week 17, the Buccaneers were upset yet again, allowing rookie quarterback\u00a0Quinn Ewers<\/a> to earn his first career win in the Dolphins’ 20-17 victory. The Buccaneers did defeat Carolina in a Week 18 showdown last Saturday, but the Falcons’ victory over the Saints on Sunday gave the three-way NFC South tiebreaker to the Panthers, who will host the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> in wild-card weekend.<\/p>\n

Bowles previously signed a three-year extension that runs through 2028, and has gone 35-33 in his four seasons as coach. That includes a 1-3 record in the playoffs. Jones had reported that this losing season was\u00a0unlikely to spell the end of the Bowles era<\/a>\u00a0in Tampa.<\/p>\n

“I understand their frustrations, and I understand our own frustrations, as well,” Bowles said on Monday. “It’s well warranted and well warranted within the building, as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u00a0coach Todd Bowles told reporters on Monday that he has\u00a0earned the chance to remain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[254,1842,211,260,1885,7,294,58,251,55,1591,6,1849,704,250,2597,2596,7763],"class_list":{"0":"post-662151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-baker-mayfield","10":"tag-buccaneers","11":"tag-carolina-panthers","12":"tag-coach","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-kirk-cousins","15":"tag-los-angeles-rams","16":"tag-miami-dolphins","17":"tag-new-orleans-saints","18":"tag-nfc-south","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-quinn-ewers","21":"tag-tampa-bay","22":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","23":"tag-tampabay","24":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers","25":"tag-todd-bowles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115856045792818059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}