In a somewhat unexpected move the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired Super Bowl-winning coach Jon Gruden late Friday afternoon. And in what could be even more of shock, the Bucs plan to replace Gruden with Raheem Morris, who has never been anything more than a position coach in any of his six seasons in the league.
As for Gruden, six seasons without a playoff win was his undoing even for the man who led the Bucs to victory over Oakland in Super Bowl XXVII in his rookie season. If you combine that with the laste season meltdown that saw the Bucs go from a seemlingly lock for a playoff spot after 12 games with a 9-3 record but lost their final four games, and that essentially sealed their fate and left them on the outside looking in. In seven years, Gruden had a 60-57 record.
