There's a rumor going around that former Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden will be leaving the Monday Night Football booth at the end of this season and returning to the sidelines of one football team or another, according to ProFootballTalk.

One rumor has him going to coach Notre Dame, but not too many seem to think Gruden has the patience to work with college students, according to PFT.

Gruden has apparently been very upbeat this year on the air and not saying anything negative, which has some also believing that he'd like to get back into coaching and wants to protect himself from stepping on any toes of any organization he might work with.

Source: ProFootballTalk

There is apparently a loud cry going up in the Windy City by fans of the Chicago Bears. It basically consists of one unified idea: fire coach Lovie Smith.

The team is 3-3 so there are plenty of other fans around the league (Hello, fans of the St. Louis Rams, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, Tennessee Titans, Cleveland Browns, and Miami Dolphins!) who don't know what Bears fans are so upset about. But there was an expectation for Smith to deliver more this season and his head is apparently being asked to be delivered on a plate by the masses, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The team, however, has no plans to fire Smith, according to the paper. He has two more years and about $11 million left on his contract and Bears owner Virginia McCaskey cannot afford to be paying Smith to not do a job while simultaneously paying someone else $6 million to do the job Smith was supposed to do.

So feel free to exercise your First Amendment rights, Bears fans, but don't expect anything to change for a few years.

Source: Chicago Tribune