Buccaneers Hiring Charlie Strong As Defensive Line Coach

According to Ian Rapoport, the Buccaneers are hiring former USF/Texas/Louisville HC Charlie Strong as their new defensive line coach. 

Strong, 64, began his coaching career at Florida back in 1983. He worked for a number of schools before returning to Florida as their defensive coordinator under Urban Meyer.

Louisville hired Strong as their head coach in 2010 and he later departed for the head-coaching job at Texas. He spent three seasons in Texas before being fired hired as USF’s head coach.

Strong spent the 2020 season at Alabama as a defensive analyst and was hired as the Jaguars’ inside linebackers coach and assistant head coach in 2021. From there, he spent 2022 as Miami’s co-DC and linebackers coach and was hired a defensive analyst for Alabama in 2023. 

For his career, Strong’s teams have produced a record of 74-53 (58.3 percent) over the course of 11 seasons.