Former Buccaneers and Raiders defensive tackle Warren Sapp is having a retirement party in Tampa this weekend to benefit the Tampa Children’s Cancer Center.

In promoting the event, he gave an interview to Rick Stroud of the St. Petersburg Times in which he had some interesting things to say about the coaches he had in Tampa Bay.

Asked about winning the Super Bowl in 2002, Jon Gruden’s first year as the Buccaneers’ coach, Sapp suggested that in reality, former Bucs coach Tony Dungy deserves more of the credit than Gruden.

“I always say this: The damn cake was already in the oven,” Sapp said. “It was just a matter of when it came out. All Jon had to do was put the icing on it.”

Of course, you could also make the case that a big part of the cake was in the oven even before Dungy got there, considering that defensive stalwarts like Sapp, Derrick Brooks and John Lynch were drafted when Sam Wyche was the Bucs’ coach.

Sapp does give Gruden credit for making the Buccaneers’ offense accountable, but Sapp suggests in the interview that he prefers Dungy to Gruden. He also suggests that he didn’t much enjoy playing for longtime Buccaneers defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin, saying that Kiffin is the main reason Sapp left Tampa Bay.

“Me and Monte had the rockiest relationship — a stepson-to-step­father relationship,” Sapp said. “It was always his defense, and he barked people out of the building. It was too much about him.”