TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles on Wednesday downplayed the attention on his upcoming coaching matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers' Mike Tomlin, one of the few games this season that will feature two Black head coaches.
"I have a very good relationship with Tomlin," Bowles said Wednesday when asked about them being two of the league's four Black coaches, a group that now includes Steve Wilks, who replaced the fired Matt Rhule on an interim basis this week in Carolina. "We don't look at what color we are when we coach against each other, we just know each other.