TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Kevin Minter sat in the auditorium at the AdventHealth Training Center during OTAs, not sure what to expect when Bruce Arians, his head coach with the Arizona Cardinals for four seasons, took the podium for the first team meeting of 2019. It was the first time he’d addressed a team since retiring after the 2017 season.
Arians had endured several health scares in 44 years of coaching, and he had to pull some strings to get certain family members on board with a comeback. Had his one-year retirement softened his tough-guy approach?