Keidel: Buccaneers Winning… For Now

By Jason Keidel
When pondering the NFL’s most essential teams, Tampa Bay is rarely high on the list.
Yet they’ve had odd growth spurts since entering the league in 1976. The Bucs lost their first 26 games but made the NFC title game in 1979.
Fast forward 20 years, when Tony Dungy slowly built them into a behemoth. While Dungy didn’t get a chance to feast on the fruits of his labor, Jon Gruden led the Buccaneers to their lone Super Bowl title in 2002.
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