{"id":456544,"date":"2026-02-13T06:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/456544\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:20:26","slug":"bucs-add-7-new-faces-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/456544\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs add 7 new faces to coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hired seven new coaches, promoted three, and fired five in a series of staff changes, the team announced in a release Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>New hires include T.J. Yates, pass game coordinator, Ken Zampese, senior offensive assistant\/pass game specialist, Chandler Whitmer, quarterbacks coach, Andrew Mitchell, assistant offensive line coach, Marcus West, defensive line coach, Todd Bowles Jr., defensive assistant and Luke Smith, assistant special teams coach.<\/p>\n<p>The team has also promoted Tim Atkins to safeties coach, Rashad Johnson to cornerbacks coach, and Chad Wade to head strength and conditioning coach <\/p>\n<p>Kefense Hynson, Brian Picucci, Anthony Piroli, Jordan Somerville, and Keith Tandy are no longer with the organization.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MARY.OCONNELL.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>5 dead in Sarasota shooting ID&#8217;d, linked to Ft. Lauderdale double homicide<\/p>\n<p>The Sarasota County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said five people are dead after a shooting in a Sarasota neighborhood, including a suspect authorities say may be connected to a double homicide in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>5 dead in Sarasota shooting ID&#8217;d, linked to Ft. Lauderdale double homicide: SCSO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hired seven new coaches, promoted three, and fired five in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[7136,7137,12850,10653,33721,6566,5,189,4,540,10654,49626,92,7138,5168,5167,7139],"class_list":{"0":"post-456544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-abc-action-news-sports","10":"tag-buccaneers","11":"tag-bucs","12":"tag-coaching-changes","13":"tag-coaching-staff","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-lightning","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","19":"tag-tampa-bay-bucs","20":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","21":"tag-tampa-bay-sports","22":"tag-tampabay","23":"tag-tampabaylightning","24":"tag-wfts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116061879490497225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}