Tampa Bay Buccaneers need to write Todd Bowles a blank check

While the Buccaneers may be focused on the present, it never hurts to start looking towards the future. The Bucs need to keep Bowles in Tampa Bay to keep their defense intact, but he is also the most-likely future head coach.

Every time the Buccaneer defense shuts down a Hall of Famer like Aaron Rodgers, Bowles becomes more expensive. Numerous teams in the league would be better off with Bowles as the head coach and an analytics-savvy offensive coordinator. Tampa Bay needs to offer whatever Bowles wants to keep him involved so that he can step into the head job when Arians moves on.

If the Buccaneers let Bowles walk, they will lose out on one of their best coaches, head coach or otherwise, ever. If Tampa Bay can keep Bowles for a few more years, he will have another shot at head coach before too long.

Bowles has easily earned a shot at being the head coach for the Buccaneers, but he will become a hot commodity very quickly. Teams like the Giants, Jets, Bengals, Chargers, Eagles, Cowboys, etc. would immediately improve with Bowles as the head coach, and more could reveal themselves as the season progresses.

Bowles would need help with the offensive side of things, but his time in New York was more the franchise’s fault than his own. The Buccaneers have to keep Bowles in Tampa Bay, even if that means signing a check and letting Todd Bowles fill it out.