TAMPA, Fla. — Bruce Arians held a Zoom call with members of the Bucs coaching staff to inform them he was stepping down as head coach to take a role in the front office only minutes before the news broke Wednesday night.
For Arians, it’s a chance to have an impact on the team in another capacity while handing over the head-coaching reins to defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, one of his long-time assistant coaches and a former player at Temple.
It’s an arrangement Arians may have preferred when he stepped down as head coach of the Cardinals after the 2018 season but that never materialized.
