Tampa Bay has the most diverse coaching staff in the history of the NFL.

[Elwood P Dowd]

All of his coordinators are black. Two assistant coaches are women. One of his offensive coaches is 82.

https://sports.yahoo.com/super-bowl-55-tampa-bay-bucs-arians-coaching-staff-000601216.html

When Tampa Bay Buccaneers coaches gather for a staff meeting, it is unlike any other staff meeting in the NFL.

Among head coach Bruce Arians’ 28 assistant coaches is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, multiple Super Bowl-winning former players, a daughter of Iranian immigrants, a single mother, and a man who won his first Super Bowl as a coach in 1979 and has no interest in retiring at age 82.

Arians has gotten a lot of attention for the makeup of his staff, and rightfully so: No one in the league seems to value diversity the way he does. His top four lieutenants — offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich, defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, special teams coordinator Keith Armstrong and assistant head coach/run game coordinator Harold Goodwin — are Black, a first in the long history of the NFL. He’s become a champion of adding women into the fold, starting with Dr. Jen Welter’s training camp coaching internship in 2015 when Arians was with the Arizona Cardinals.

But Arians has long since recognized that coaching is just teaching, and a good teacher can come in any form, any color, any background.

[exboyfil]

1. It was funny when reporters asked Leftwich how the defense stopped Mahomes

He casually said, "You need to ask Todd Bowles about that."

Ariens already has a succession plan in place apparently for Bowles to ultimately be the Bucs HC. Of course another team might come calling before then.

[JanMichael]

2. Which is awesome. I was rooting against both teams for several reasons.

Tampa - Trump loving QB is so distasteful. The defense wins the game and its BRADY BRADY BRADY...

KC - fan base is too conservative for me.

Lived in both places in the past so have some connection to those fan bases plus there is a neat survey:



Overall happy that Tampa won now because of Arians.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. So over 70% of the Tampa Bay fan base are moderate to very liberal.

Good info there.

[JanMichael]

6. Florida is weird (no shit).

It was so Democratic for decades but once Chiles died the Bush cabal (now Trump) took over the governorship.

They will pass a $15/hr minimum wage then vote in a monster to live in Tallahassee. Most of the urban areas are pretty liberal (like most places in the US) but the interior (most of the interior and ex-urbs) and the panhandle are KKK/White Power bastions of hate.

Here is the article that derived leanings from Facebook:

https://learcenter.org/nflpolitics/

It looks pretty accurate.

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. And they have the Goat, Good Old Asslicking Trumper as QB

So it's a wash for me.

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. I heard somewhere Brady had backed off his support of Trump,

and his wife was definitely not a fan of Trump. Might have been one of the sports talk shows.

[BannonsLiver]

7. He did, long ago

And has said so several times including on Howard Stern. They played golf together and were casual friends in the most superficial sense. The end.

Yet for most folks here, Brady might as well have been at the Capitol on 1/6 leading the charge Sadly we have a fair number of low-info knee jerk hyper politicized reactionary types on this side of the political divide as well.

[USALiberal]

9. Nice try! Nt

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Arians Started To Gain A Reputation For This...

...when he was in Arizona. Even before that when he was an assistant he developed diverse position coach staffs.
It doesn't feel contrived either.
I think he wants good people and goes out of his way to create diversity.