{"id":384914,"date":"2025-09-21T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/384914\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:58:07","slug":"sean-payton-has-high-praise-for-chargers-jim-harbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/384914\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Payton has high praise for Chargers&#8217; Jim Harbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a> head coach Sean Payton has a great respect for <a href=\"https:\/\/chargerswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> head coach Jim Harbaugh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think (it&#8217;s) very good,&#8221; said Payton of his relationship with Harbaugh on Wednesday. &#8220;I worked with his brother, John, at the Eagles. Their father was a fantastic coach, and the two of them are fantastic coaches. Our league is better when Jim is in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jim began his journey as an NFL head coach when he was with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ninerswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> from 2011-14, where he led the 49ers to a Super Bowl berth in 2013, where he coached against his brother, John and the Baltimore Ravens. &#8220;At one point there was a Super Bowl where the two of them were coaching against each other,&#8221; Payton said of the historic game. &#8220;We might go 200 more years before that happens again. That\u2019s pretty remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After 2014, Jim coached at the University of Michigan, leading them to a national championship in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Jim then returned to the NFL, landing in Los Angeles with the Chargers. &#8220;I\u2019ve said this before out of respect, I would rather him be in a different division, but he does a tremendous job with his team,&#8221; Payton said.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC West boasts four coaches who have led their team to a Super Bowl, and three who have won the Big Game. Harbaugh is seeking his place atop the NFL&#8217;s best, but he has to do it in the toughest division in football.<\/p>\n<p>Payton and the <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broncos<\/a> will go into SoFi Stadium to play Harbaugh and the <a href=\"https:\/\/chargerswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chargers<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton has a great respect for Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[247,265,232,5570,231,258,2426,7,20842,248,267,88,6,35196,245,537,3440,530,3686,1813,9,5573,266,5571,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-384914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-broncos","11":"tag-coaching","12":"tag-denver","13":"tag-denver-broncos","14":"tag-denverbroncos","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-hub","17":"tag-national","18":"tag-national-sports","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-nfl-hub","22":"tag-overall","23":"tag-overall-positive","24":"tag-payton","25":"tag-positive","26":"tag-sean","27":"tag-sean-payton","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-sports-coaching-u0026-training","30":"tag-sports-news","31":"tag-training","32":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}