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Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tickets - Bucs Add New Coaches

With a new head coach, Raheem Morris, in place as well as a new general manager, Mark Dominik, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are getting close and closer to completing their lineup for their 2009 staff. They reached out to new faces from outside the Bucs family as well as promoting from within to form their new staff. Some of the newest additions are defensive backs coach Joe Baker, defensive line coach Robert Nunn, assistant strength and conditioning coach Chris Keenan, Kurtis Shultz as head strength and conditioning coach, Dwayne Stukes as assistant defensive backs coach and Doug Williams as their coordinator of pro scouting. Fans can see the chemistry of this new staff in person by booking Tampa Bay Buccaneers tickets online.

Baker joins the team with years of coaching experience. His career started as a graduate assistant/defensive backs coach for East Stroudsburg University before becoming the running backs and wide receivers coach for Samford University in 1993. Baker took his first job in the NFL in 1995 when he was named the assistant special teams coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He stayed in that position for four years, and then moved to the New Orleans Saints as their defensive backs and special teams coach in 2000. He was moved to secondary assistant two years later and then secondary coach in 2003. He switched to the secondary/safeties coach for the Green Bay Packers in 2005, where he coached under new Bucs defensive coordinator Jim Bates. He spent one year as the defensive quality control/linebackers coach for the St. Louis Rams in 2006. He joined Bates again in 2007 with the Denver Broncos as their linebackers coach. He moved to offensive assistant for the 2008 season.

Nunn will be coaching the defensive line with Todd Wash. Nunn started coaching at Northeastern Oklahoma in 1988 as their defensive line coach. He then coached the defensive ends at Tennessee for two years. He spent a year as the defensive coordinator for Georgia Military College before being named their head coach in 1992. He stayed there until he broke into the NFL in 2000 as a defensive assistant with the Miami Dolphins, under Bates. In 2001, he was moved to assistant defensive line/quality control coach. He moved to the Redskins for a year in 2003, but returned to the Dolphins for the 2004 season. When Bates made the move to the Packers, so did Nunn, but he remained after Bates left for three more seasons.

Chris Keenan was previously an intern for the Bucs' strength and conditioning department before spending the past couple of seasons as the assistant strength and conditioning director at Tulane. Kurtis Shultz was a S&C coach for Loyola College and Johns Hopkins from 1995-2002 before becoming the men's basketball strength coach for Maryland in 2003. He had his first job with the NFL in 2003 as the assistant S&C coach for the Cincinnati Bengals and moved to head S&C coach for the Minnesota Bikings for two seasons in 2004 and 2005. The last two seasons, he was the Bucs assistant S&C coach. Dwayne Stukes spent the last three seasons with the Bucs, two as a coaches assistant as one as the special teams quality control coach. Doug Williams is well-known to any longtime Buccaneer fan as he served as the Bucs' starting quarterback from 1978-1982. He coached in the college ranks before joining the Bucs as a personnel executive in 2004.

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