{"id":672843,"date":"2026-01-13T01:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/672843\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T01:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:47:28","slug":"report-john-harbaugh-coaching-demands-rumors-inaccurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/672843\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: John Harbaugh coaching demands rumors \u201cinaccurate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harbaugh will apparently begin interviewing with teams this week. He has loosely been connected to the Titans\u2019 vacancy. Harbaugh was allegedly watching tape on Titans quarterback Cam Ward<\/a> (among others) over the weekend before narrowing down his list of potential suitors.<\/p>\n

There were some immediate rumors regarding Harbaugh\u2019s \u201cdemands.\u201d Tony Grossi of ESPN Cleveland<\/a> was reporting that Harbaugh wanted a $20 million\/year salary, total authority over the roster, and to hand-pick his GM. That would obviously be a problem for the Titans for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n

Who knows what Amy Adams Strunk would be willing to pay Harbaugh, but Brian Callahan earned nowhere near $20 million per year. The bigger issue is the control over the roster \/ and hand-select the GM rumors. The Titans obviously aren\u2019t firing GM Mike Borgonzi<\/a>, nor are they about to take full control of the roster away from him when they just shuffled the duties between him and president Chad Brinker.<\/p>\n

Well, Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports recently debunked those rumors.<\/p>\n

\u201cReports of Harbaugh\u2019s demands are inaccurate, according to a source with knowledge,\u201d Jones wrote in a recent column<\/a>. \u201cHarbaugh will command a high salary based simply off his resume, and some level of roster say is inherent in attracting a coach of that caliber. But a demand of $20 million in salary and full roster control are not required to land Harbaugh\u2019s services.\u201d<\/p>\n

That would be great news for the Titans. If Harbaugh\u2019s demands are reasonable, then the Titans could be considered realistic contenders. It\u2019s worth noting Jones says the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons are perceived favorites, however.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo sources on interested teams said their belief is [that] Harbaugh\u2019s top choices among the vacant jobs are the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons in some order. Those sources added the Tennessee Titans are in third place.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see if Harbaugh agrees to interview with the Titans this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harbaugh will apparently begin interviewing with teams this week. He has loosely been connected to the Titans\u2019 vacancy.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,6,526,394,88576,87013,2413,23210,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-672843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-tennessee","11":"tag-tennessee-titans","12":"tag-tennessee-titans-analysis","13":"tag-tennessee-titans-coaching-staff","14":"tag-tennessee-titans-news","15":"tag-tennessee-titans-rumors","16":"tag-tennesseetitans","17":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115885273508868037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672843","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=672843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}