{"id":659810,"date":"2026-01-07T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/659810\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:02:10","slug":"john-harbaugh-is-the-favorite-for-the-new-york-giants-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/659810\/","title":{"rendered":"John Harbaugh is the favorite for the New York Giants job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rumor mill is churning, and John Harbaugh is being linked to the Giants vacancy<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: John Harbaugh is expected to emerge as a favorite for the head coaching job of the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh will be in demand for many teams, not just the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2008676173308735842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Football is theatre. For someone who has chosen journalism as a career, it&#8217;s easy to appreciate a good story. One of the most important of Tuesday&#8217;s news cycle involves a former<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> assistant. <a href=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/ravens\/2026\/01\/06\/john-harbaugh-fired-analysis-ravens-lamar-jackson\/88053245007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/ravens\/2026\/01\/06\/john-harbaugh-fired-analysis-ravens-lamar-jackson\/88053245007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Harbaugh has been fired<\/a>. He leaves the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a> after leading them for nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Around these parts, we&#8217;ve been busy talking about the Birds in Philadelphia, but The Flock in Baltimore has been equally fascinating. Their story involves a 30th-anniversary campaign, disappointment, and ultimately<a href=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/ravens\/2026\/01\/04\/ravens-vs-steelers-live-updates-scores-highlights-for-week-18-game\/88017767007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/ravens\/2026\/01\/04\/ravens-vs-steelers-live-updates-scores-highlights-for-week-18-game\/88017767007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> a loss in the NFL&#8217;s final regular-season game<\/a>. That eliminates them from postseason contention.<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh has been on the hot seat all season and is now unemployed, but he won&#8217;t be for long. ESPN&#8217;s top NFL insider Adam Schefter reports that at least seven teams have inquired about his services. <a href=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/ravens\/2026\/01\/06\/john-harbaugh-fired-miami-dolphins-rumors\/88054398007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/ravens\/2026\/01\/06\/john-harbaugh-fired-miami-dolphins-rumors\/88054398007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">That includes one team that hasn&#8217;t fired its head coach yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Might the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giants<\/a> be an interested party for John Harbaugh&#8217;s services?<\/p>\n<p>What does this have to do with the NFC East, you ask? We appreciate the question. Lines are being drawn connecting the dots representing John Harbaugh and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a>. Schefter released his report on that also.<\/p>\n<p>John Harbaugh comes from Andy Reid&#8217;s coaching tree. He spent ten seasons as the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" data-autotag=\"c1b3a094-e294-4a77-b1b2-dbdbd5bfa2c5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eagles<\/a>&#8216; special teams coordinator and defensive backs coach. It&#8217;s sad that his tenure in Baltimore ends partially because of a special teams miscue.<\/p>\n<p>After having spent so much time here, it isn&#8217;t shocking to find an Eagles fan who still loves him. That all goes out of the window however if he lands in Gotham as the leader of the hated Giants.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rumor mill is churning, and John Harbaugh is being linked to the Giants vacancy Sources: John Harbaugh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[247,265,184,117,2756,5570,25,860,12,388,7,519,20842,379,1458,1255,248,267,330,246,206,1917,56,88,2321,2469,854,873,6,35196,245,338,264,537,242,109,530,169,3373,9,5573,266,1459,5571,776,225],"class_list":["post-659810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-birds","tag-coaching","tag-eagles","tag-east","tag-espn","tag-espn-inc","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-hub","tag-inc","tag-mike","tag-mike-tomlin","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-negative","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfc","tag-nfc-east","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-positive","tag-ravens","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sports-coaching-u0026-training","tag-sports-news","tag-tomlin","tag-training","tag-u0026","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659810","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=659810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}