Bruce Arians
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Position: Quarterback / Head Coach |
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Date of birth: October 3, 1952 in Paterson , New Jersey |
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Bruce Arians (* 3. October 1952 in Paterson , New Jersey ) is an American American football trainer and former poker players. Among other things, he won two Super Bowl titles as assistant coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers and was head coach of the Arizona Cardinals in the National Football League (NFL). He has been Head Coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers since 2019 .
Player career
Arians played for York Catholic High School and William Penn High School in York , Pennsylvania as a youth . From 1972 to 1974 he played for the team at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg , Virginia on the position of quarterback .
Coaching career
Early stations
Bruce Arians began his coaching career in 1975 as an assistant coach for Virginia Tech. Other coaching stations in the college sector were Mississippi State University (running backs / wide receivers) and the University of Alabama (running backs).
Temple Owls (1983–1988)
He took his first position as head coach in 1983 for the college team at Temple University . With the Temple Owls he won 27 wins from 66 games in six seasons (six wins in the 1986 season were later revoked due to the use of non-eligible players).
Kansas City Chiefs (1989-1992)
Bruce Arians' first stop in the NFL was coaching the running backs for the Kansas City Chiefs . Although the Chiefs finished all four seasons with positive results, they did not manage to win a division title. In the play-offs they never got beyond the 2nd round during this period.
Further stations
He then worked as an offensive coordinator for the Mississippi State Bulldogs (1993-1995), as a trainer of the tight ends for the New Orleans Saints (1996) and as an offensive coordinator for the Alabama Crimson Tide (1997).
14 years assistant coach in the NFL (1998-2011), 2 Super Bowl victories (2005, 2008)
From 1998 to 2000 he coached the quarterbacks of the Indianapolis Colts Peyton Manning in his first three seasons. From 2001 to 2003 he was offensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns for three seasons . In 2004 the Pittsburgh Steelers signed him as coach of the wide receiver. Under Head Coach Bill Cowher , he won the Super Bowl XL in 2005 against the Seattle Seahawks with 21:10. In 2007 Arians was promoted to Offensive Coordinator, now under Head Coach Mike Tomlin . In 2008, the second Super Bowl title followed with a 27:23 victory in Super Bowl XLIII against the Arizona Cardinals .
Indianapolis Colts (2012), interim head coach
On January 28, 2012, Bruce Arians was named offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts. Due to the leukemia of head coach Chuck Pagano , Arians was appointed interim head coach on October 1st. In the period from the 5th to the 16th matchday he won nine wins with the Colts with only three defeats. Pagano returned to the team on the 17th and final matchday. The Colts finished the regular season with a record of 11-5 and improved on the previous season by nine wins (the record in 2011 was 2-14). In the play-offs, the Indianapolis Colts were eliminated in the first round. Bruce Arians won the Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year Award in 2012, the first time that an interim head coach has been awarded the award.
Arizona Cardinals (2013-2017)
With 38 years of experience as a coach in American football and a total of 20 years as an assistant coach in the NFL, Bruce Arians took on his first head coach position in the NFL in 2013 . On January 17, 2013, he signed a four-year contract with the Arizona Cardinals. In its first season, the Cardinals just missed the play-offs despite a record of ten wins and six defeats, but improved significantly compared to the five wins and eleven defeats in the previous season. In 2014 the Cardinals qualified for the play-offs with a record of 11-5, for the first time since 2009. Bruce Arians' team lost 16:27 in the first round at the Carolina Panthers . The eleven wins in one season set the club record. In 2014 Bruce Arians was again awarded the Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year Award. In February 2015, his contract was extended to the 2018 season. In the 2015 season , the Arizona Cardinals secured a division win in NFC West two game days before the end of the season , the first division win since 2009 and the 7th in the club's history. 13 regular season wins set a team record and the 0.813 win-loss ratio is the third best for the Cardinals (after 0.917 in the 1948 season and 0.821 in the 1925 season). For the second time in team history, the Cardinals claimed ten or more victories in three consecutive seasons. In the 2016 and 2017 seasons , the play-offs were missed with balances 7-8-1 and 8-8. On the final day of the 2017 season, Bruce Arians took his 50th win with the Arizona Cardinals. He overtook Ken Whisenhunt (49 wins, 2007-2012) and is the head coach with the most wins in the club's history. On January 1, 2018, Arians announced his resignation.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
After working as an expert for the American television station CBS in the 2018 season , the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hired him on January 8, 2019 for four years with a one-year option as their new head coach. In its first season, however, only 7 games could be won while 9 games were lost.
Record in the National Football League as head coach
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| Victories | Defeats | draw | Win% | Place id division | Victories | Defeats | Win% | Results | |||
| IC | 2012 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0.750 | 2. AFC South | - | - | - | - | as interim head coach |
| IC total | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0.750 | - | - | - | ||||
| AC | 2013 | 10 | 6th | 0 | 0.625 | 3. NFC West | - | - | - | - | |
| AC | 2014 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0.688 | 2. NFC West | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | Losing to Carolina Panthers | |
| AC | 2015 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0.813 | 1. NFC West | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | Win against Green Bay Packers , lose against Carolina Panthers |
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| AC | 2016 | 7th | 8th | 1 | 0.469 | 2. NFC West | - | - | - | - | |
| AC | 2017 | 8th | 8th | 0 | 0.500 | 3. NFC West | - | - | - | - | |
| TB | 2019 | 7th | 9 | 0 | 0.438 | 3. NFC South | - | - | - | - | |
| AC total | 56 | 39 | 1 | 0.589 | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | ||||
As of March 7, 2020
Personal
Arians was born on October 3, 1952 in Paterson , New Jersey and grew up in York , Pennsylvania . He is married to Christine. The couple have two children, Jake and Kristi Anne, and a granddaughter. Jake Arians played American football for the University of Alabama at Birmingham and in the 2001 season in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills in the position of kicker . In 2013 Christine and Bruce Arians founded the Arians Family Foundation. The foundation works against abuse and neglect of children.
Web links
- Biography on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers homepage
- Statistics at pro-football-reference.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Jenna Laine: Source: Bucs, Cardinals swap picks as part of Bruce Arians deal. espn.com, January 9, 2019, accessed January 13, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Arians, Bruce |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arians, Bruce Charles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paterson , New Jersey , United States |