{"id":684334,"date":"2026-01-17T14:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/684334\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:47:20","slug":"bucs-end-busy-week-of-interviews-with-a-top-offensive-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/684334\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs end busy week of interviews with a top offensive candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been actively interviewing candidates for their crucial offensive coordinator vacancy, with former Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel emerging as the headline name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">McDaniel, known for his innovative offensive schemes and previous success running high-powered units under Kyle Shanahan\u2019s tutelage and as Miami\u2019s OC and head coach, completed an in-person interview Friday with the Bucs for their open offensive coordinator position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">His experience as both a play-caller and leader makes him an enticing fit to revitalize Tampa Bay\u2019s offense after the firing of Josh Grizzard following the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alongside McDaniel, Tampa Bay has interviewed several other offensive coordinator candidates, including Todd Monken, who is following John Harbaugh to New York, Mike Kafka, the Giants\u2019 interim head coach, and David Shaw, the Detroit Lions\u2019 passing game coordinator with decades of coaching experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tampa Bay seeks a dynamic play-caller who can get the most out of Baker Mayfield and Tampa\u2019s run game and wide receiving corps. With McDaniel still in demand around the league, his meeting with the Bucs stands out as the premier candidate interview of the cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been actively interviewing candidates for their crucial offensive coordinator vacancy, with former Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,7,6,704,250,93793,14443,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-684334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","13":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-coaching-staff","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-news","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115910990025783988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684334","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=684334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}