The Tampa Bay Buccaneers today announced the additions of Kevin Carberry as offensive line coach and Thomas McGaughey (muh-GAY-hee) as the team's special teams coordinator.
Carberry joins the Buccaneers after spending the 2023 season with the New Orleans Saints as the team's offensive line assistant. The Saints, led by Pro Bowl center Erik McCoy, tied for the fifth-fewest quarterback hits allowed in the NFL last season (76), while limiting opponents to the eighth-fewest sacks (35).
Prior to his season in New Orleans, Carberry spent two seasons as the offensive line coach for the Los Angeles Rams during which he helped guide the Rams to a Super Bowl LVI victory to cap off the 2021 season. That season, Carberry's unit limited opposing defenses to the fourth-fewest quarterback hits (74) and tied for the sixth-fewest sacks allowed (31), in addition to ranking seventh in fewest sacks allowed per pass attempt (4.9%).
Carberry made his NFL coaching debut as an offensive assistant with the Dallas Cowboys under the tutelage of Bill Callahan in 2014. In their first year together, the duo coached a unit that helped propel running back DeMarco Murray to a league-leading 1,845 rushing yards. Following his stint in Dallas (2014-15), Carberry joined Callahan in Washington, where he spent two seasons as the assistant offensive line coach.
In the collegiate ranks, Carberry has held coaching roles at Stanford (2018-20), Stephen F. Austin (2012-13) and Kansas (2009-11). He began his coaching career as a varsity assistant at his alma mater, St. Rita High School (Chicago), coaching them to an Illinois state title in 2006. He later coached two seasons at St. Ignatius College Prep (Chicago) while also playing in the AFL for the New York Dragons (2007) and Philadelphia Soul (2008), winning a 2008 Arena Bowl Championship in his lone year in Philadelphia.
Carberry competed in his first NFL training camp with the Cleveland Browns in 2005 before spending the season on the Detroit Lions practice squad. He later spent the 2006 training camp with the Carolina Panthers prior to landing with the Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe in the spring of 2006.
Carberry is a native of Oak Lawn, Illinois, and was a four-year player at Ohio University (2002-05), earning All-MAC honors as a senior. He and his wife, Emily, have one son, Frank, and one daughter, Elizabeth.
McGaughey joins Tampa Bay with 17 years of NFL coaching experience, including the last nine as a special teams coordinator for the New York Giants (2018-23), Carolina Panthers (2016-17), San Francisco 49ers (2015) and New York Jets (2014). He held previous roles in the NFL as an assistant special teams coach with the Giants (2007-10), Denver Broncos (2005-06) and Kansas City Chiefs (2002). In addition, McGaughey spent six total seasons coaching in the collegiate ranks at Louisiana State University (2011-13) and the University of Houston (1997, 2003-04).
Over the past six seasons with the Giants, McGaughey has found success working with the kicker position as New York ranked sixth from 2018-23 in team field goal percentage (87.1%). From 50 yards or more, the Giants converted 29-of-38 field goal attempts during that span, ranking second in 50+-yard field goal percentage (76.3%) and fourth in total 50+-yard field goals made. In 2022 alone, Graham Gano set a new single-season franchise record with eight 50+-yard field goals made, while in 2018, McGaughey coached Aldrick Rosas to a franchise record for single-season field goal percentage (97.0%), earning him his first Pro Bowl selection. Former NFL safety Michael Thomas also reached the Pro Bowl in 2018 under McGaughey's guidance, leading the team with nine special teams tackles.
From 2018-23, McGaughey's special teams group also ranked fifth in the NFL in fewest opponent yards per kick return (21.2) and ninth in fewest opponent yards per punt return (7.8).
McGaughey was a member of the coaching staff for the Super Bowl XLII championship team in 2007 during his initial stint with the Giants. The following year, all three specialists earned Pro Bowl recognition under McGaughey: kicker John Carney, punter/holder Jeff Feagles and long snapper Zak DeOssie.
In his playing career, McGaughey spent time with the Cincinnati Bengals and Philadelphia Eagles in 1996 prior to landing with the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe in 1997, winning the World Bowl that season.
McGaughey was a two-sport athlete at the University of Houston (1991-95), competing in both football and track and field. He was named a special teams captain on the football team in his senior season. Following his playing career, McGaughey returned to Houston as a graduate assistant in 1997 before taking a job as the defensive backs and special teams coach at Willowridge High School (Houston) from 1998-2001.
McGaughey has two sons, Thomas (Trey) and Trenton, and one daughter, Taylor.
