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Was Buccaners' Todd Bowles ranked in PFF's top 10 returning coaches?

Was Buccaners' Todd Bowles ranked in PFF's top 10 returning coaches?

USA Today24-06-2025
Pro Football Focus has done a lot to get fans ready by providing a lot of preview material for the upcoming 2025 season. Within that they have discussed nearly every position, but now they are moving onto the coaches of the teams in which fans get to watch roam the sidelines of their favorite teams.
PFF wanted to rank the top 10 returning incumbent NFL coaches in 2025. Dalton Wasserman explained his approach to the process, explaining, "Players ultimately decide who wins and loses football games, but coaching plays a massive part in optimizing their performance. There certainly isn't a shortage of excellent head coaches, both old and young, in the NFL, and we're ranking the best among them. This will be a ranking of head coaches returning to their incumbent positions in 2025. Newly hired coaches — Aaron Glenn, Mike Vrabel, Liam Coen, Pete Carroll, Brian Schottenheimer, Ben Johnson and Kellen Moore — will not be included."
For the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Todd Bowles earned the team their fourth straight NFC South division title. In the process, he helped coach the team back from being outside the playoff picture completely to being at the top of the division once again.
So, where would he be ranked? That's the thing, he did not crack the top ten.
This may not be surprising, especially when you look and see that the rankings did not include the reigning Coach of the Year, Kevin O'Connell. No coaches from the division made the rankings as a whole, but former Saints coach and current Broncos coach Sean Payton did earn the second-ranked spot.
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