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Tom Moore enters his sixth season with the Buccaneers in 2024 and his 46th NFL season overall. The oldest active NFL coach at the age of 85, Moore was honored in 2015 with the Pro Football Writers of America Paul “Dr. Z” Zimmerman Award and later by the Pro Football Hall of Fame with an Award of Excellence for his lifetime contributions as an assistant coach. Following 13 seasons at the collegiate level and one year in the World Football League, Moore made the jump to the NFL as a wide receivers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1977. Over his decades in the NFL, his teams have earned 25 postseason appearances, 16 division titles, and four Super Bowl wins. He has coached such Hall of Fame players as Peyton Manning, Lynn Swann, John Stallworth, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Mike Webster, Barry Sanders, Marshall Faulk, Randall McDaniel, Cris Carter, Marvin Harrison, and Edgerrin James. Moore has coached alongside three Super Bowl-winning head coaches – Chuck Noll, Mike Ditka, and Tony Dungy – all of whom are enshrined in Canton. Moore and his wife, Emily, have two children, daughter, Terry, and son, Dan. Rick Stroud is an award-winning journalist at the Tampa Bay Times, having spent three decades covering the Bucs and the NFL. He is a regular contributor to The Dan Patrick Show, The Rich Eisen Show, NFL Radio, and ESPN. Stroud and his wife, Valerie, have two daughters, Natasha and Alexandra. He also has a son, Wesley.
Praise for The Players' Coach by Tom Moore with Rick Stroud ""Tom always had answers for me. . . .I think as a quarterback, that's a great word to have from your offensive coordinator—answers. . . .And if readers want answers about the best-of-the-best coach of the game of football, they'll find them in The Players' Coach."" —Peyton Manning, Pro Football Hall of Fame Quarterback ""Tom Moore has coached sixty-three years, which is unbelievable in itself, but it's not just his longevity that has been amazing. And it's not just the results. Sure, there are the championships you can point to and the four Super Bowl rings he owns. There are the multiple MVP awards for the quarterbacks he coached—from Terry Bradshaw to Peyton Manning to Tom Brady. There are the Hall of Fame inductions of his former players. . . .But those don't even tell the whole story. Because Tom didn't just help his great players. He helped everyone be better. . . .I believe that when you have finished reading The Players' Coach, you will know the story of the greatest assistant football coach in NFL history."" —Tony Dungy, Pro Football Hall of Fame Head Coach ""Tom Moore would've made a great offensive coordinator for the Steelers from the beginning. But back in those early days with Tom, we had five or six coaches, and everybody would meet and put a game plan together. . . .Tom was always in my corner. No matter what happened, he'd say 'You keep throwing that sonofabitch.'. . .He never tried to change me. He just knew how to accentuate every player's strengths and create offense around the talent. You'll see it time and again in his book and with all different kinds of players."" —Terry Bradshaw, Pro Football Hall of Fame Quarterback ""Thanks be to God for Tom Moore."" —Lynn Swann, Pro Football Hall of Fame Wide Receiver ""His contributions offensively?. . .He is one of the brightest minds to have ever coached the game."" —Bruce Arians, Two-Time Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year, Super Bowl Champion Head Coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Author of The Quarterback Whisperer ""Every team should have a Tom Moore. He was that good. . . .Tom Moore outreached everybody. . . .He took players that maybe the other coaches couldn't have made winners out of, and he made winners out of them."" —Wayne Fontes, Detroit Lions Head Coach (1988-1996), NFL Coach of the Year (1991) ""I've told my wife and son, 'If it wasn't for this guy, Tom Moore, right here, you would not be living the way you're living right now."" —Jake Reed, Twelve-year NFL Wide Receiver, Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints
