That’s a mighty fine R.

Adam Schefter is reporting that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are close to making Greg Schiano their new head coach, much to the delight of Peter King, who has been talking up his pro potential quite a bit. Schiano has spent the past eleven years overhauling the Rutgers football program from laughingstock to kind of not terrible all of the time. Thus ends a curious search that saw the team spurned by Oregon’s Chip Kelly after interviews with Marty Schottenheimer, Mike Sherman, Brad Childress, an older gentleman with a distinctive hat who kind of looked like Tom Landry for a minute, and token respectable candidate Mike Zimmer.

If the deal goes through, all NFL head coaching vacancies will have been filled. Mike Sherman will likely settle for the offensive coordinator job in Miami, while Schottenheimer can refocus his energy on guiding the Virginia Destroyers to a second straight UFL title. Assuming those are still things that exist, of course.

• GRONK is party. Rob Gronkowski did an interview with ESPN Deportes following the AFC Championship game. He tried his best to humor the audience, using up everything he remembers from 9th grade Spanish class.

In other things GRONK related, here’s a tribute song from Youtube user unclepoggy that comes via @fitzyGFY. Don’t worry, Tommy. This video doesn’t feature any “housekeepah talk.”

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