If the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl, Bruce Arians will not embark on sunset at the top of the football world.
Entering the 95.3 WDAE in Tampa on Wednesday, Arians were asked if he would retire if the Bucs won the Super Bowl LV.
“Of course not,” Aryans said, via Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times. “I’ll get two. If the glaziers will take me back.”
Suffice it to say that Buccaneer owners should want the Aryans back, win or lose.
The Bucs signed a two-year low season contract with Tom Brady, opening a Super Bowl window. Tampa realized that plan by defeating the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game. A victory over Kansas City at their stadium would consolidate the Bucs’ status. The 2010 Packers are the last team to win a Lombardi Trophy as a wild card.
For 68-year-old Aryans, retirement can come at any time. He “retired” after the 2017 season in Arizona due to medical problems. After a year away, he returned with Tampa in 2019.
The thought that the Aryans could leave after winning their first Super Bowl as head coach was a potential storyline that would lead to the February 7 clash. It would have happened that the Arians would leave Tampa to the competent care of defensive coordinator Todd Bowles or offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich.
Instead, the veteran coach eliminated those issues early.
If the Bucs win, the QB Whisperer will try Brady again.