Bucs sign GM Licht, coach Bowles to contract extensions

TAMPA, Fla. – A month forward of this summer season’s upcoming coaching camp, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have introduced contract extensions for its head coach and basic supervisor.

Each Common Supervisor Jason Licht and Head Coach Todd Bowles have signed multi-year contract extensions. 

Licht, 54, has been in his submit since 2014, whereas Bowles has been the workforce’s head coach since 2022 after three seasons as its defensive coordinator.

The Bucs have loved 5 straight seasons that led to playoff berths, the longest such stretch in franchise historical past.

Tampa Bay has additionally received the NFC South in every of the final 4 seasons, a franchise first, and may turn out to be the primary workforce to take action 5 straight instances in 2025.

Bowles, 61, is the primary head coach to information the Buccaneers to a few straight division titles. The Buccaneers additionally claimed their second Tremendous Bowl championship on the finish of the 2020 season.

Tampa Bay is the one workforce within the NFC to make the playoffs every of the final 5 years, and certainly one of solely three within the NFL, becoming a member of Buffalo and Kansas Metropolis.

“Jason and Todd’s glorious management and imaginative and prescient have been essential to our organizational success, and the profitable tradition they’ve established has us nicely positioned into the longer term,” stated Buccaneers Proprietor/Co-Chairman Joel Glazer.  “Jason has developed into one of many prime expertise evaluators and basic managers within the NFL, whereas Todd has led us to a few consecutive division titles and is likely one of the league’s main defensive minds. Below their steering, we are going to proceed constructing in the direction of one other championship.”

The Bucs, making ready for his or her 50^th NFL season,  report back to camp in late July with rookies arriving on July 21 and veterans a day later.