ESPN's Adam Schefter appeared on Ross Tucker's Football Today Podcast to talk about head coaching vacancies (among other things), and he had a few interesting things to say about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Most notably, he doesn't believe the Bucs will hire either Mike Sherman or Jerry Gray - but that they have some mystery candidates no one knows about.
"It's been very quiet, you brought up the two names [Jerry Gray and Mike Sherman]. I don't believe those are the two guys ultimately in the end that will be there. But they have talked about Jerry Gray, they have talked about Mike Sherman.
I believe their sights are set on different coaches at this point in time. They've been very tight-lipped about it, that's the way that Tampa Bay has always operated. And at some point there will be a candidate, a legitimate candidate that leaks out and you say "Oh that makes sense" and that'll be the guy.
And maybe they fall in love with Mike Sherman or Jerry Gray. I just think that they have a longer list of candidates than we know, a deeper list of candidates than we know and there's other candidates they really like that we don't know.''
Which candidates would that be? Beats me. I would guess they'll look at some college head coaches, as they made it clear they wanted to look at all the candidates they know. So far the key word has been experience as the only rumored candidate who wasn't previously head coach is Jerry Gray, and he's had significant experience as a coordinator in the NFL.
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