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Tampa Bay Bucs set to make Dirk Koetter their 11th head coach

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The Tampa Bay Bucs have a new boss. Hopefully, he will fare better than the old one. The Bucs have called a 2 p.m. press conference for today in which they are expected to promote offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter to head coach. He will be the team’s fifth head coach in eight seasons, making Tampa Bay one of the most turnover-prone teams in the NFL. The pressure will be on Koetter to improve upon the eight games the team has…

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Offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter leads Bucs’ coaching candidates

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He has a great relationship with the star quarterback. He resurrected the running game. He healed the offensive line. He took the total offense from 30th in the NFL to fifth. And so the next coach of the Tampa Bay Bucs would seem to be Dirk Koetter, right? General manager Jason Licht on Thursday wouldn’t whittle the prospective candidates to just Koetter, but he did acknowledge that Koetter “has a strong résumé” as the team prepares to select a new…

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Are Bucs really better going into 2015?

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They entered the draft as the NFL’s worst team. They exited talking about competing for the division. That is how much better three days can allow a football team to feel about itself. The Tampa Bay Bucs, the dregs of the league last year when they finished 2-14, feel that’s how much better the off-season has left them. Outsiders will probably doubt it. A team rarely goes from two victories to contention, and a rookie quarterback is rarely promise upon…

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Bucs need to be smart during draft week

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It’s genius week at One Buc Place. It’s the week when everyone admires your brain. Throughout the history of the Tampa Bay Bucs, of course, there have been a lot of mental lapses. But no one ever talks about them during draft week. The week the Bucs drafted Bo Jackson, why, they were the smartest kids in the room. No one knew he was going to play baseball instead. The week they picked Keith McCants, the Bucs were golden. They…

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