TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hired seven new coaches, promoted three, and fired five in a series of staff changes, the team announced in a release Thursday.
New hires include T.J. Yates, pass game coordinator, Ken Zampese, senior offensive assistant/pass game specialist, Chandler Whitmer, quarterbacks coach, Andrew Mitchell, assistant offensive line coach, Marcus West, defensive line coach, Todd Bowles Jr., defensive assistant and Luke Smith, assistant special teams coach.
The team has also promoted Tim Atkins to safeties coach, Rashad Johnson to cornerbacks coach, and Chad Wade to head strength and conditioning coach
Kefense Hynson, Brian Picucci, Anthony Piroli, Jordan Somerville, and Keith Tandy are no longer with the organization.
Saudi flight from Tampa, secret FBI probe reveal possible Saudi support network for 9/11 hijackers
Twenty years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 80,000 records compiled by the Tampa FBI Field Office remain classified. Newly declassified documents are pointing to a possible secret Saudi support network for the hijackers. Soon after the attacks, the FBI uncovered that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
