Who deserves credit for the Super Bowl championship?

[michael89156]

Super Bowl XXXVII champions

Who do you credit most for the Bucs' Super Bowl championship following the 2002 season?


 Jon Gruden                     185 - 35.373%
 
Tony Dungy                     181 - 34.608%
 
Rich McKay                       28 - 5.354%
 
Glazer family                     25 - 4.78%
 
Monte Kiffin                      64 - 12.237%
 
Warren Sapp                     4 - 0.765%
 
Derrick Brooks                21 - 4.015%
 
Brad Johnson                  5 - 0.956%
 
Other                             10 - 1.912%
 
 
Total:                                   523 votes

[Hate]

Gruden...right guy at the right time.

[Bucpride5]

Glazer family.

They had the foresight to see this team was going as far as it could under Dungy. They committed the financial resources to bring in top flight free agents Keyshawn, Brad Johnson, and Simeon Rice prior to 2002. They were smart enough to let the football people like McKay assemble a team, and they did whatever it took to get a coach that would get the most out of a underachieving talented roster.

It's not a popular opinion within the fan base but without the owners who committed the resources to build the team, the Bucs may still be like their opponent this weekend. Super Bowl less.

Right mixture crafted by at the time a great Ownership group.

[lyronmewis]

Dungy couldn't win with Dungy's team.

It's all Kiffin/Gruden.

[bucs4eva]

Definitely Gruden and our elite D.

[muvlodge]

Definitely Gruden and our elite D.

Dittto!!!

[JC5100]

[sunrisejeff]

Stupid question imo.  It takes an entire organization to win the Lombardi not one player, coach or front office person gets the majority of the credit.  That's just my point of view though.

[OneTruth]

Dungy is a great role model, a father figure, and I am proud of him as a person.

However Gruden deserves the credit for holding the offense accountable. Dungy had many opps to win with that defense. He even fired Les Steckle because the players didn't like him. Steckle was Dungy's only good OC and he got rid of him for that Schula kid. Dungy dug his own grave here...

[NotDeadYet]

    Glazer family hired Tony Dungy. who built us from scratch Then they fired him when we failed to progress offensively, and next manipulated Jon Gruden away from the Raiders' Al Davis to get us our coveted Championship.

[3rd String Kicker]

I found myself voting for Kiff on this one.

[Hate]

Glazer family.

They had the foresight to see this team was going as far as it could under Dungy. They committed the financial resources to bring in top flight free agents Keyshawn, Brad Johnson, and Simeon Rice prior to 2002. They were smart enough to let the football people like McKay assemble a team, and they did whatever it took to get a coach that would get the most out of a underachieving talented roster.

It's not a popular opinion within the fan base but without the owners who committed the resources to build the team, the Bucs may still be like their opponent this weekend. Super Bowl less.

Right mixture crafted by at the time a great Ownership group.

very well said!!

[JC5100]

    Glazer family hired Tony Dungy. who built us from scratch

From scratch? Sapp, Brooks and Lynch were here before Dungy.

[J-Train]

I miss that guy so much,

I bet he could suit up Sunday and still get a sack.

[bashear]

Stupid question imo.  It takes an entire organization to win the Lombardi not one player, coach or front office person gets the majority of the credit.  That's just my point of view though.

The guy at the top should get the most credit, but, yeah, there's a lot of credit to spread around.