As 14 teams are set to begin their playoff journeys between this weekend and next, the Bucs remain busy as they look to fill out holes on their coaching staff that were vacated earlier this week with the firings of two coordinators and three assistants.

After beginning their offensive coordinator search Friday by virtually interviewing former Titans head coach Brian Callahan and lining up an interview with former Falcons offensive coordinator Zac Robinson (and after completing their first interview for the vacant special teams coordinator job), the Bucs announced Saturday afternoon that they have completed two more virtual interviews for the offensive coordinator position.

One was with Cardinals quarterbacks coach Israel Woolfork, while the other was with Lions pass game coordinator David Shaw.

Woolfork, 35, began his coaching career in the NFL in 2022 with the Browns after receiving the team’s Bill Willis Coaching Fellowship, then he was hired by Jonathan Gannon in 2023 to be the Cardinals’ quarterbacks coach. While in Arizona, Woolfork worked with quarterback Kyler Murray upon his return from the reserve/PUP list in 2023 until veteran Jacoby Brissett eventually took over for Murray during the 2025 season.

Under Woolfork’s direction in 2025, Murray and Brissett combined to throw for 4,328 yards and 29 touchdowns to 11 interceptions. Arizona’s passing attack was the seventh-best in the NFL, and its 1.69% interception rate ranked 11th.

Prior to his time in the NFL, Woolfork coached at Miami Ohio in the college ranks, starting as a graduate assistant between 2013 and 2014 before serving as the running backs coach from 2015 through 2017. And from 2018 through 2021, he worked as the team’s wide receivers coach.

As for Shaw, 53, he has a lengthier coaching history between the NFL and college game. After serving as Western Washington’s outside linebackers coach in 1995 and the team’s tight ends coach in 1996, he made the move to the NFL in 1997 and served as the Eagles’ offensive quality control coach. From there, he served in that same role for the Raiders from 1998 through 2000.

Lions pass game coordinator David Shaw – Photo by: IMAGN Images – Junfu Han

In 2001, he was Oakland’s quarterbacks coach, then he took on the role of quarterbacks and wide receivers coach with the Ravens from 2002 through 2004. He was the Ravens’ wide receivers coach again in 2005, then he went back to the college ranks and served as San Diego’s pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach in 2006.

Then came a long stint with Stanford, where he was first the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach for the Cardinal from 2007 through 2009 before spending 2010 as the offensive coordinator and running backs coach. He then became Stanford’s head coach in 2011 and served in that role through 2022.

Over 12 seasons as the head coach, he put together a 96-54 record, won three Pac-12 titles and won two Rose Bowls. Overall, he took the Cardinal to four BCS bowls, with three appearances in the Rose Bowl (2-1 record) and one Fiesta Bowl appearance (0-1).

Shaw was fired by Stanford after the 2022 season and then was named the Broncos’ senior personnel executive in June of 2024. But he got back into coaching in 2025, serving as the pass game coordinator in Detroit under head coach Dan Campbell. This season, the Lions ranked fifth in both points per game (28.3) and yards per game (373.2) while ranking third yards per play (5.97), passing yards per game (253.1) and interception percentage (1.37%). They also had the NFL’s eighth-best red zone offense.

Bucs’ Offensive Coordinator Search Features Four Candidates – For Now

The Bucs have started quickly on their offensive coordinator search, having either interviewed or scheduled an interview with four candidates in the two days since Josh Grizzard was fired after just one season with the role.

Todd Bowles and Tampa Bay fired Grizzard, quarterbacks coach Thad Lewis, defensive line coach Charlie Strong, cornerbacks coach Kevin Ross and special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey on Thursday and have gotten to work on finding replacements for Grizzard and McGaughey right away.

Bucs OC Josh Grizzard and HC Todd Bowles – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

The team virtually interviewed its first candidate – Brian Callahan – on Friday. It then lined up an interview with Zac Robinson before announcing the virtual interviews with Israel Woolfork and David Shaw on Saturday afternoon just after announcing they had also interviewed Jett Modkins for the special teams coordinator job Saturday as well.

The Bucs are no strangers to offensive coordinator searches, as this is their fourth in four years. After Byron Leftwich was fired following the 2022 season, Tampa Bay interviewed 10 candidates before deciding on Dave Canales as his replacement. Once Canales left to take the Panthers’ head coaching job, the team interviewed nine candidates and planned to interview three more before those three took jobs elsewhere. Ultimately, Liam Coen replaced Canales.

Last year’s search was a shorter one, as the Bucs interviewed five external candidates as well as Grizzard before promoting Grizzard from the pass game coordinator role he served in under Coen in 2024.

So, for now, the 2026 search for Grizzard’s replacement is at four candidates. The list should continue to grow as the next week or so unfolds, and it’s worth wondering if any more candidates from playoff teams will emerge after Wild Ward Weekend has concluded.

It’s also worth noting that with the NFL’s Rooney Rule in place, teams must interview one minority candidate during offensive and defensive coordinator searches, a rule the Bucs will have already satisfied during their current search.