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Article: Smooth and Steady Wins the Race ... to the Super Bowl.(Coach Tony Dungy and the Buccaneers, National Football League)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Insight on the News
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- October 1, 2001
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He is second in seniority among National Football Conference (NFC) coaches -- only one other has taken a team to the playoffs more often in the last four seasons -- and has been with winning teams 15 of his 20 years as a National Football League (NFL) player, assistant and coach.
But Tampa Bay's Tony Dungy is almost the anticoach at age 45. While most veteran NFL coaches operate their organizations with nearly total control, Dungy doesn't mind that general manager Rich McKay runs the personnel department. And while coaches of his stature often are more famous than any of their players, Dungy remains in the shadow of hyperkinetic Buccaneers such as Warren Sapp and ...