While we have all speculated that it will be happening, it will be reportedly less than a week before ESPN’s Monday Night Football analyst Jon Gruden will become the next head coach of the Oakland Raiders. He has been with ESPN since 2009, having last coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008. Before that, he had been the Raiders’ head coach from 1998 to 2001.
For the last several years, Gruden has been rumored to come back into coaching. While most potential landing spots for him were honestly farfetched, the rumors he’d be coming back to the Raiders definitely had some teeth to him coming back to the Bay Area to coach the team.