{"id":692116,"date":"2026-01-20T21:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:41:12","slug":"bucs-have-a-new-special-teams-coach-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692116\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Have A New Special Teams Coach &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tBucs Have A New Special Teams Coach<br \/>\nJanuary 20th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0886.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392574\" class=\"wp-image-392574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0886.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"171\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-392574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Bucs special teams coach Danny Smith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This hire is right up the alley for those who like cartoon characters for coaches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Bucs today, per Jenna Laine of ESPN, have <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jennalaineespn\/status\/2013688719203565987?s=46&amp;t=1raw9A3TK5gcBM_39hn1Mg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">decided on a special teams coach<\/a>. He comes from the Steelers. Long-time special teams guy Danny Smith, 72.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The animated Smith has been a special teams coach in the NFL for some 30 years, the last dozen seasons in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe is going to assume if he was lousy, Mike Tomlin would have launched him a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, how will the excitable Smith\u2019s demeanor improve the horrible Bucs special teams? Joe has no earthly idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bucs Have A New Special Teams Coach January 20th, 2026 New Bucs special teams coach Danny Smith. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[2599,2598,7,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-692116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115929605602973251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692116","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=692116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}