With a Bucs win over the Cowboys Sunday, Tony Dungy will no longer be the Bucs winningest coach. Chucky will.

Joe really appreciates Tony Dungy, the man.

Joe is thankful for Tony Dungy, the former Bucs coach.

But Joe long ago grew weary of the hero worship and deification of Tony Dungy the Bucs coach from a large segment of Bucs fans. To hear these Bucs fans speak, Dungy was a mixture of Paul Brown, Nostradamus, Clara Barton and the Messiah all rolled into one.

So for these same sycophants — Joe refers to them as “Dungyphiles” — Joe politely suggests they should find a seat and begin preparations to seek some sort of therapy after reading the following sentence.

With a win over the Cowboys Sunday, Chucky will become the winningest coach in Bucs franchise history, as Anwar Richardson of the Tampa Tribune points out.

“I try not to think too much about those types of things,” said Gruden, in his seventh season with the Bucs. “I just feel like I have a great responsibility here. I’m very fortunate to have been surrounded by a lot of great and talented people, and I just want to win the next game. Whether it’s 28 games or 33 games you’ve won in your career, it really doesn’t matter. We need to win our sixth game.”.

Despite the risk of creating a flamewar, Joe is happy to learn this piece of information. First and foremost, this record suggests the Bucs have been successful under Chucky. And they have.

Is Dungy a good man? No, he’s a great man.

Was Dungy good for the Bucs? Certainly.

Was it a good thing the Glazer Boys turned the page and showed Dungy the door? Absolutely!

But if Joe somehow won a monster lottery and could buy an NFL team, Joe would give away a good chunk of that team to hire Dungy as a director of football operations, not, however, as coach.