Bradley Promoted To LB Coach

Pewter Report and Buccaneers.com are both reporting the promotion of Casey "Gus" Bradley to the position of Linebackers Coach from his Defensive Quality Control Coach position. Pewter Report has a lengthier story on Bradley's former positions. He's been a coach at every level of the defense in college, and was an LB coach before, so this should be a good move.

Gruden stated that Bradley had excellent attention to details, which is probably one of the key aspects he's looking for as they fill coaching positions and make changes. I think the defense suffered from a lack of doing the little things and being aggressive and that was more a sign of the coaching this past season. I wonder just how well Barry was working after being denied a chance to bolt to Detroit. The DL and DB coaches clearly weren't aggressive enough and they seemed unable to focus the players on learning the intricacies of the defense.

I'm still expecting some whacking of the offensive coaching staff. Hackett may bolt when his contract ends this month, so he may need to be replaced. I expect Muir to either be whacked, or slid into a different position. Muir's not a bad coach, per se, but he's been unable to get this offensive line to play up to it's ability on a consistent basis. I'm not sure what other changes may, or may not, happen, though I've mentioned that something might happen with Mann. The dropped passes has been ongoing for a couple of years now and it's proliferated amongst all of the receivers. Clearly something needs to change there. In the meantime I'll keep an eye out on what's going on.