On Monday at his season ending press conference, Todd Bowles said he was meeting with Bucs ownership, the Glazer family “this week” – although an actual day was not specified.

“We evaluate like we always evaluate,” Bowles said. “It hasn’t changed the last three years. We’ll meet this week. I get up and come to work every day trying to figure out how to get better.”

Asked whether the Glazers would give changes they would like to see, Bowles divulged little information.

Bucs HC Todd Bowles – Photo by: USA Today

“We listen and we talk about football,” Bowles said. “But we don’t really get into what we talk about because those are private conversations. At the same time, I coach this team and I understand football very well and I have a good feel for what we need and what we don’t need.”

Bucs HC Todd Bowles Has Met With Glazer Family

According to a report from ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, it looks like Todd Bowles met with the Bucs on Tuesday followed by a staff meeting the next day on Wednesday. Here’s what Fowler reported:

“Todd Bowles met with ownership Tuesday and has a staff meeting scheduled for Wednesday. Signs point to Bowles returning for a fifth season as Tampa Bay’s head coach. One model that Tampa has kicked around is beefing up the staff around Bowles with a new offensive coordinator and additions to the defensive staff (possibly a coordinator role). Think back to the Eagles when they went big with [Kellen] Moore and Vic Fangio two years ago. Doing so is costly and could prevent Tampa from following suit. But these are the type of big-picture ideas discussed in Tampa lately.”

There will be plenty of time to talk about what adjustments Tampa Bay needs to make on their coaching staff if Bowles stays. What it appears to mean is that ownership is leaning towards staying with Bowles for another year. It should be noted, though, this may have came before the news of John Harbaugh and the Ravens parting ways set the NFL media world ablaze.

Bucs GM Jason Licht, co-owners Darcie Glazer Kassewitz and Joel Glazer, head coach Todd Bowles and senior football consultant Bruce Arians – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

Tampa Bay’s pursuit of Harbaugh is definitely one avenue the team could pursue, as Pewter Report wrote about on PewterReport.com and discussed on the Pewter Report Podcast Tuesday afternoon as the news broke. But even if Harbaugh were to go to another team, it appears that Tampa Bay is willing to keep Bowles around for yet another season instead of looking for another coach.

With a 35-33 regular season record and 1-3 postseason record, Bowles will need to have significant improvement in year five. If not, the growing voices of detractors will get louder and louder.

One thing to consider is the fact that the Bucs could be using some stealth by leaking to the media that Bowles appears safe while general manager Jason Licht, who worked with Harbaugh in Philadelphia from 2003-07, is doing some due diligence on the fired Ravens head coach. The Glazers may not want to part ways with Bowles if they can’t land Harbaugh – if the team is truly interested in possibly hiring him to replace Bowles.

The Glazers were stealthily trying to line up Bill Parcells to possibly replace Tony Dungy in 2001 when Dungy was still coaching the team. And the Glazers also admitted in the Raise The Flags docuseries to using the media to report that the Bucs were on the verge of hiring Steve Mariucci in order to pressure Oakland owner Al Davis into trading head coach Jon Gruden to Tampa Bay. The Glazers revealed that they were never going to hire Mariucci and that it was simply a ploy to acquire Gruden.

The Glazers also fired Gruden 19 days after the end of the 2008 season on January 17, 2009 – so anything goes with Bucs ownership when it comes to their coaching hirings and firings.