With the Tampa Bay Buccaneers reportedly set to make a coaching change after the season, it sounds like former Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy could be in play.

It hasn't been an ideal season for current Bucs head coach Dirk Koetter, as the team has posted a 5-10 record after winning just five games a year ago.

And even with Koetter going 9-7 in his first season back in 2016, it doesn't appear that it will be enough to keep him on the job beyond this year.

That's why McCarthy is apparently one of the top names surrounding the potential coaching vacancy in Tampa Bay, according to Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated:

The Buccaneers are a little like Arizona in that word has held that the coach, Dirk Koettter, is likely to be gone, particularly with a staff full of assistants on expiring deals, but the situation of GM Jason Licht seems to be murkier. This job is the one that ex-Packers coach Mike McCarthy has been connected most to.

Obviously, the Bucs could do a whole lot worse than McCarthy.

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He's a veteran coach that has won a Super Bowl, and although his Green Bay tenure involved some disappointing seasons, he still managed to lead the Packers to numerous playoff appearances.

If that's the goal in Tampa Bay, then McCarthy would certainly be a fine hire.

Of course, there figures to be plenty of more names that pop up on the team's radar, so it's way too early to know how things will unfold.

The Bucs will finish up the regular season on Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons.