TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are finalizing deal to make Bruce Arians their next head coach, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Arians, who retired following the 2017 season coaching the Arizona Cardinals, has spent the 2018 NFL season working as a game analyst for CBS.
In Tampa Bay, he will reunite with Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht, who served as the Cardinals' vice president of player personnel in 2013, and quarterback Jameis Winston, who attended Arians' football camps as a youth in Birmingham, Alabama.
"Jaboo was a Birmingham legend," Arians said prior to his Cardinals team facing Winston and the Bucs in 2016.