{"id":672755,"date":"2026-01-13T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/672755\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:59:13","slug":"the-john-harbaugh-sweepstakes-has-begun-as-giants-wait-to-take-their-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/672755\/","title":{"rendered":"The John Harbaugh sweepstakes has begun as Giants wait to take their swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants did not get the first at-bat with John Harbaugh, but they will eventually get their swings.<\/p>\n<p>The Harbaugh Sweepstakes opened Monday when the coach <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/sports\/john-harbaugh-interviews-with-falcons-amid-giants-pursuit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conducted with the Falcons<\/a> what the team stated was an interview. Or did they? That this \u201cinterview\u201d was conducted without any lead-in reporting felt like an impressively clandestine coup. In actuality, the interaction was a phone conversation between Harbaugh and Matt Ryan, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/10\/sports\/falcons-hire-matt-ryan-as-president-of-football-operations-as-franchise-overhaul-begins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the new Falcons president of football.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh has been in contact with all seven teams with head coach openings \u2014 the eighth opening was created when Harbaugh was fired by the Ravens \u2014 and he will narrow his list and determine which teams will be granted an in-person interview, either at the team facility or at an off-site location.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants will make the cut for an in-person meeting, The Post has reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants did not get the first at-bat with John Harbaugh, but they will eventually get their swings.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[254,7,519,2909,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9,2833,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-672755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-john-harbaugh","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115885085349215801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672755","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=672755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}