Linebackers Coach
NFL Experience: 10
Years with Buccaneers: 7
Joe Barry enters his second stint and seventh season overall as the Buccaneers linebackers coach, having spent the 2001-2006 seasons on the Tampa Bay sideline. In between stints with the Buccaneers, Barry served as the Detroit Lions defensive coordinator for two seasons from 2007-2008. While in Detroit, Barry led a defense that ranked 10th in the NFL in 2008 in sacks per pass play and tied for third in the NFL in 2007 with 35 takeaways. The Lions defense also tied for ninth in the NFL in 2007 with 37 sacks.
During his six seasons with the Buccaneers, Barry helped the Buccaneers defense to a top five NFL ranking four times, including No. 1 rankings in 2002 and 2005. Buccaneers linebackers under Barry were named to the Pro Bowl seven times in his six seasons, with LB Derrick Brooks earning the honor from 2001-2006 and LB Shelton Quarles in 2002. Additionally, Brooks was named the 2002 NFL Defensive Player of the Year under Barry and received AP All-Pro first or second team honors five times (2001-2005).
In 2002, his second season with the club, Barry helped lead the Buccaneers to their first world championship in franchise history in Super Bowl XXXVII. Barry was also a member of two division titles (2002 and 2005) during his first stint with the Buccaneers.
The Buccaneers linebackers were a consistent strength of the Buccaneers defense from 2001-2006. During Barry’s six-year tenure, Tampa Bay tied for the most interception returns for touchdowns by linebackers in the NFL with seven and tied for sixth-most interceptions by linebackers with 23. From 2001-2006, the Buccaneers allowed the second-lowest yards per game (285.7), the least passing yards per game (177.2) and the fewest rushing touchdowns (51) in the NFL. The Tampa Bay defense also allowed the second-fewest points per game (17.4) and the ninth-lowest rushing yards per game (108.5) during that span.
Prior to joining the Buccaneers in 2001, Barry spent the 2000 season as defensive quality control coach for the San Francisco 49ers and the 1999 season coaching linebackers under John Robinson at UNLV. Before that, he worked with linebackers and defensive ends at Northern Arizona for three seasons from 1996-1998.
Barry was a two-year letterwinner as a linebacker at Southern Cal and then worked as a defensive graduate assistant for two seasons (1994-1995) at USC. He served as a co-captain during his senior year in 1993.
Barry’s father-in-law, Rod Marinelli, was the assistant head coach for the Buccaneers and also coached the defensive line for 10 seasons before serving as the Detroit Lions head coach from 2006-2008. He is currently the assistant head coach/defensive line coach of the Chicago Bears.
In 2003, Barry lent his coaching knowledge to “NFL 101,” a program that educates women on the terminology, formations, strategy and basics of football.
Barry and his wife, Chris, have two daughters, Camryn and Lauren and twin sons Nickolas and Samuel.
BARRY AT A GLANCE
- 1989-1990...Michigan, player
- 1991-93...Southern Cal, player
- 1994-95...Southern Cal, Graduate Assistant
- 1996-98...Northern Arizona, Linebackers/Defensive Ends Coach
- 1999...UNLV, Linebackers CoachJohn Robinson
- 2000...San Francisco 49ers, Defensive Quality Control Coach
- 2001...Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Linebackers Coach
- 2002-06...Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Linebackers Coach
- 2007-08...Detroit Lions, Defensive Coordinator
- 2009...Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Linebackers Coach
