{"id":671930,"date":"2026-01-12T17:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/671930\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:28:14","slug":"albert-breer-anecdote-shows-firing-john-harbaugh-was-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/671930\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Breer anecdote shows firing John Harbaugh was smart"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Baltimore Ravens have to be disappointed<\/a> with how the 2025 season turned out. Baltimore finished the season 8-9 and missed the playoffs. That led to the shocking divorce between the Ravens and head coach John Harbaugh<\/a>. Now more information is coming out on why that move was made.<\/p>\n

Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated explained in a recent article why Baltimore decided to move on<\/a> from Harbaugh.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, the more I\u2019ve dug into this, the more apparent it\u2019s become that ownership questioned how well Harbaugh fit with the roster,\u201d Breer wrote on Monday. \u201cFor a decade and a half, the team was built in his image. He runs a demanding program, and the leaders the team brought in wouldn\u2019t have had it any other way. They were his torchbearers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breer followed up with a story that shows why a head coaching change could be the right move for the Ravens.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, I\u2019m not sure the roster the Ravens have now, still loaded with talent, is quite like that anymore,\u201d Breer continued. \u201cI heard a story about one prominent veteran who was hesitant to sign an extension because of Harbaugh\u2019s challenging program. That one didn\u2019t come across as a shot at the player or a shot at Harbaugh. It was more so an illustration of where things stood, even though, by all accounts, Harbaugh still loved the group he had.\u201d<\/p>\n

There have been plenty of rumors that Harbaugh lost the locker room<\/a>. It is viewed as a primary reason why he was fired.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Breer’s reporting illustrates that Harbaugh was not incredibly unpopular among his players. But his relationship with the team seemed to have changed, even in subtle ways.<\/p>\n

Who will the Ravens hire to replace John Harbaugh?\"Baltimore\u00a9 Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Even if the Ravens are moving on from Harbaugh at the right, they still need to find a suitable replacement.<\/p>\n

Baltimore will be hard at work interviewing multiple head coaching candidates this week.<\/p>\n

The Ravens plan to interview Kliff Kingsbury<\/a> and Anthony Weaver on Monday. They have already talked with Vance Joseph<\/a> and have requested to speak with Jesse Minter too.<\/p>\n

Baltimore is clearly interested in speaking to both offensive geniuses and defensive-minded head coaching candidates.<\/p>\n

It will be fascinating to see what direction the Ravens go in with their hire, whenever it officially happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baltimore Ravens have to be disappointed with how the 2025 season turned out. Baltimore finished the season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,2909,6,832,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-671930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-john-harbaugh","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-rumors","15":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115883311491574090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671930","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=671930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}