The Pittsburgh Steelers are internet hosting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a preseason sport on August 16, and a reputation that’s fairly acquainted to Steelers’ followers could also be Tampa’s main play-caller. On The Pewter Report podcast, Buccaneers’ head coach Todd Bowles stated outdoors linebackers coach and run sport coordinator Larry Foote could get the possibility to name performs in opposition to the Steelers, the staff he spent 11 years with throughout his enjoying profession.
“I’m fairly positive I received’t name all of them three, we haven’t gotten into it but. We kinda determine these out within the summertime. Larry’s going again to Pittsburgh, and I do know that’s sort of a tender spot for him, so he could get to do this one; we’ll see because it goes on. I simply gotta get him on the aircraft to get him again residence.”
Foote was a fourth-round decide by the Steelers within the 2002 NFL Draft, performed his first seven years with the Steelers, left to play for the Detroit Lions in 2009, and got here again and spent 4 extra years with the Steelers earlier than ending out his profession with the Arizona Cardinals. He received two Tremendous Bowls as a member of the Steelers whereas ending his Pittsburgh profession with 636 tackles, 21 sacks, three interceptions, and 9 pressured fumbles.
Larry Foote has risen his method up the teaching ranks since turning into the Cardinals’ assistant linebackers coach in 2015, and he’s labored below Bowles in Tampa since 2019. From 2022-2024, Foote, who began his stint with Tampa Bay as the skin linebackers coach, labored with inside linebackers, however the Buccaneers moved him again outdoors this offseason.
Forward of Pittsburgh’s matchup with the Buccaneers in 2022, Foote stated that he owed loads to the Steelers’ tradition and that he felt he was “raised proper” upon coming into the league. It might be a cool alternative for him to get an opportunity to name performs in opposition to the group that helped make him an expert and the place he started his NFL profession.
Lately, coaches throughout the league, together with Bowles, have let up-and-coming assistants get an opportunity to name performs through the preseason with a view to give them that have. For assistant coaches who’ve an opportunity at turning into coordinators or head coaches, the expertise is invaluable in giving them a really feel for doing one thing they might not have beforehand had the chance to do. It might be superior for Larry Foote if he have been capable of get that have in opposition to the staff he spent most of his profession with.
