I wanted a CEO type head coach before Harbaugh was even available. The options then weren't great, though. Marrying Harbaugh with the Giants feels better than when we hired TC. Just need a good OC and DC that won't bail for a HC job at the first sign of success.
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Winner: New York Giants.
The Giants acted quickly and aggressively to land the top available coach of this hiring cycle, finalizing a five-year deal with former Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh before he could take planned meetings with the Tennessee Titans and Atlanta Falcons.
As we wrote last week, Harbaugh should bring immediate stability and competence to a Giants organization that has desperately needed both for at least the past decade, cycling through coach after coach and disappointment after disappointment. Harbaugh should also bring over a strong staff of assistant coaches, and the Giants will be better for having hired him.
Interesting hire by the Ravens. Anyone else think they hired Minter because they are salty about MacDonald leaving to Seattle and are hoping the genie strikes twice.
How are the Chargers a winner for McDaniel as OC when he’s still interviewing for HC positions and they just lost their DC?
Agree with what you’re saying in theory, but i personally hope we have a new OC/DC every year because the previous ones had so much success they became HCs. I think the giants would have a pretty good next 5+ years if that was the case.
Now that it’s all over, I kind of wonder how much the Giants would’ve paid for Harbaugh if he’d truly played hardball, knowing that the Giants were absolutely desperate for him. What would their top number have been if Harbaugh had asked? $120M? $150M? $200M? What would you all have paid if you were in charge of hiring him?
Love the Reddit mindset.
“Just need a good OC and DC that won’t bail for a HC job at the first sign of success.”
Where do you find a coordinator who is talented but has no career ambition to be ‘the guy” and make significantly more money?
There are two types of coordinators, young ones who want to move up and be a head coach, and older ones who have failed as a head coach and are satisfied with being a coordinator or who are looking for a second shot at being a head coach.