TAMPA, Fla. — It is genuinely amazing that Tom Moore is still coaching in the NFL at age 80. But it is even more amazing that Tom Moore is still coaching in the NFL at age 80 and is up for work at 4 a.m. every day.



“My favorite part,” he says, “is going to bed at night, being able to get up at 4 o’clock in the morning and know you’ve got something to do. But it’s not work. The time flies. You live a dream.”



You have to take his word on the early starts because nobody else on the Buccaneers coaching staff is in the building to verify his arrival.



“He’s the first one here,” said head coach Bruce Arians, who came out of retirement at 66 to come to Tampa Bay, bringing Moore along as a consultant. “(Offensive coordinator) Byron (Leftwich) tries to beat him. Nobody beats him to the office, I promise you.”



This is not a new development in Moore’s coaching routine. That...