The Buccaneers of Tampa Bay continued their immediate efforts to find a new attacking coordinator on Saturday afternoon, completing a virtual interview with Grant Udinski, the deputy coordinator/assistant coach of the Vikings of Minnesota. Earlier in the day, the team had done the same with Marcus Brady, the coordinator of the Los Angeles Loads passers.
Buccaneers are looking to replace Liam Coen, appointed Jacksonville Jaguars Jaguars on Friday.
Udinski is part of the Kevin O’Connell team in Minnesota since 2022, starting as assistant to the head coach/special projects. He was promoted to deputy quarter coach in 2023 before winning his current title last season.
The Vikings aligned a powerful attack in 2024, which helped them finish the regular season with a 14-3 file and a place for the Wild Card in the playoffs. Minnesota scored the ninth largest number of points in the NFL (25.4 per match) while ranking sixth from the NFL for the yards by the pass (237.8) and seventh for the yards by pass (7, 38).
In his first season with the Vikings after spending 2023 as a replacement in San Francisco, the quarter-arre Sam Darnold achieved a year in career with 4,319 yards by the pass and 35 Touché passes. They are by far the best in a single season for Darnold, as well as its completion rate of 66.2% and its scaper of 102.5.
After playing university football in Davidson and Towson, Udinski began his coach career as a graduate assistant in Baylor in 2019. A year later, he followed Matt Rhule with the Panthers of Caroline, where he After two years as a coach assistant before being hired by O ‘Connell.
