What a weird few hours for fans of the Arizona Cardinals, as a report surfaced that head coach Bruce Arians planned to retire at the end of the season, but now the coach is denying those reports on the mean streets of Twitter.

The original report, per ABC15:

Bruce Arians does not intend to return as the coach of the Arizona Cardinals next season, multiple sources confirm to ABC15 Sports Director Craig Fouhy.

Fouhy has learned that Arians has told many close to him that he intends to make the 2017 season his last with the Cardinals. Fouhy's sources include two NFL coaches.

And here is Bruce Arians refuting it:

The man who broke the story for the outlet then commented on the denial:

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“Even if it’s true, this is the last thing Arians is going to want to announce right now,” Fouhy said. “I’m not surprised he is denying it. Of course the Cardinals don't want this distraction during the middle of the season. You're seven games into the season with nine games to go. The last thing you want to have to discuss is your coach possibly retiring.”

Arians has also refuted the report in a text message to ESPN's Ian Fitzsimmons:

“I don't know who put that out there,” Arians told Fitzsimmons. “But that's something I never think about until the end of the season. I'm just focused on being 1-0 this week.”

My goodness, this is a lot of he said versus he said and it doesn't really matter at this point, right? I mean, it isn't even November yet.

What are your thoughts, Cardinals fans?