Tampa Bay Buccaneers search for new Head Coach, interview ex-Green Bay Packers Coach Mike Sherman
Tampa Bay Buccaneers are looking to wrap up their search for a head coach before the team returns to the offseason. Sources close to the franchise are reporting that the Bucs have started interviewing potential candidates for the job.
According to latest reports coming out from the Buccaneers' training ground on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, ex-Green Bay Packers' coach, Mike Sherman, has been interviewed for the position.
Sherman was linked heavily with the Buccaneers since the franchise first started their search for a head coach.
The Buccaneers have also been linked with the Tennessee Titans' defensive coordinator, Jerry Gray, for the job, who is also scheduled to be interviewed soon, according to the same source.
Sherman coached Green Bay Packers from 2000 to 2005 and won three division titles with the National Football Conference (NFC)-North team.
Sherman won 57 games with Packers and lost 39, while getting the best out of Packers' legendary quarterback, Brett Favre.
Buccaneers will be highly interested in Sherman’s ability to improve quarterbacks.
Tampa Bay’s young quarterback, Josh Freeman, had a case of second season syndrome, throwing just 16 touchdowns and 22 interceptions as the Buccaneers imploded.
In 2010, Freeman had a brilliant year throwing just six interceptions while passing for an impressive 25 touchdowns and Sherman is the likely candidate to reinvigorate him.
The Buccaneers, under coach, Raheem Morris, went 10-6 in 2010 with a young and hungry side, and this year were touted as playoff contenders but it went awfully wrong.
The Bucs started off well, going 4-2 in the first six weeks of the season, but unexplainably imploded and lost the rest of the ten games.
Morris was under fire throughout the ten-game losing streak and fans were growing increasingly disillusioned with a team that made horrendous mistakes, not worthy of a professional NFL side.
The Bucs floundered with no end in sight even against poor teams such as the Jacksonville Jaguars, losing by huge margins and turning over possessions at an alarming rate.
The end of the season brought some welcome relief and the Glazer family, which owns the franchise, caved in to the fans' demands, promptly firing Morris and the rest of his coaching staff.
The Buccaneers will hope to wrap up their search for a head coach soon, so that the team has the opportunity to thoroughly prepare for the new season.
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