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Bucs hire USC's Burns to coach defensive backfield

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Thursday, February 9, 2006

For the second time in less than a week, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have tapped Pete Carroll's coaching roster at Southern California to fill a job on their staff, hiring Greg Burns to tutor the team's defensive backs. Burns, 32, replaces Mike Tomlin, who departed Tampa Bay to become the defensive coordinator for first-year Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress. The new position with the Bucs is Burns' first NFL job. His addition follows that of Jethro Franklin, who last weekend accepted the ...

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