Bucs' thorough search for their next special teams coordinator continues with a virtual interviewed conducted today with Iowa's ST coordinator LeVar Woods. https://t.co/4p6IcWIY8y
— Scott Smith (@ScottSBucs) February 6, 2024
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are taking their time with their vacant special teams coordinator opening, and they’ve now pinned down six different candidates for the job.
Bucs reporter Scott Smith reported Wednesday that the team has interviewed two more candidates for their special teams job. One of them is from the NFL in Saints assistant special teams coach Phil Galiano, while the other is a college football candidate in Iowa’s LaVar Woods.
Galiano has been with the New Orleans Saints since 2019, but he’s been coaching a lot longer than that. His coaching career started in 2000, where he was an outside linebackers coach. Since then, he’s had a lot of NFL experience, working with three NFL teams. One of them was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he was an assistant under coach Greg Schiano from 2012-13. He was a special teams assistant then and has never served as a special teams coordinator in the NFL.
Woods has been with Iowa for his entire coaching career, so this would be a big change for him if he were to make the jump from college to the NFL. He first began coaching in 2008 with Iowa as an athletic assistant before serving as linebackers coach, tight ends coach and then as special teams coach from 2018 to now.
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