--Jeff Jagodzinski has been hired as the offensive coordinator. He was fired three weeks before as head coach of Boston College after interviewing for the Jets' head coaching vacancy. Before taking the BC job, Jagodzinski spent eight years as an NFL assistant with Green Bay and Atlanta.
--Doug Williams, the former Super MVP for the Redskins, has worked in the Bucs' pro personnel department the last five years. He would like to eventually become a GM. Right now, he's about to become a free agent when his contract expires in February, and his future is uncertain after Allen's firing.
"If you're in the position I'm in, you're at the mercy of the administration," Williams said. "If they want to make changes, they have the right to do that."
--There's a lot of talk that Monte Kiffin's decision to leave the Bucs and join his son, Lane, at the University of Tennessee contributed to the Bucs' collapse. But not everybody is buying it.
"Obviously, it's been discussed and bantered around," Allen said. "I think of Monte, I think of somebody who really had a tremendous career here. Going into the season, we had a conversation that if Lane got fired (by the Raiders), and if Lane did 'X,' what he was going to do. And he'd earned the right to make that decision. To say that's a reason we missed a tackle in the Oakland game, I think that would be shallow. I don't think we're going to face that situation again, so I don't know what I can learn from last year that can help us in the future."
