Bruce Arians

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Bruce Charles Arians (born October 3, 1952) is an American football executive and former coach in the National Football League (NFL). Since 2022, he has been a senior football consultant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Arians was previously the head coach of the Temple Owls from 1983 to 1987, the Arizona Cardinals from 2013 to 2017 and the Buccaneers from 2019 to 2021. He was also the interim head coach of the Indianapolis Colts during the 2012 season. Arians is known as a “quarterback whisperer” with a “no risk-it, no biscuit” slogan, which encourages aggressive playcalling. Under Arians’s coaching, several high-profile quarterbacks were named to the All-Pro team or Pro Bowl, including Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Andrew Luck, Carson Palmer, and Tom Brady.
An offensive assistant for most of his career, Arians helped the Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XL as their wide receivers coach and then Super Bowl XLIII as their offensive coordinator. While previously serving as head coach at Temple, Arians had his first NFL head coaching experience at age 59 when Colts head coach Chuck Pagano was treated for leukemia. Originally hired as their offensive coordinator, Arians became the…