{"id":673670,"date":"2026-01-13T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673670\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:36:19","slug":"jeremy-shockey-says-giants-need-a-champ-and-john-harbaughs-the-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673670\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Shockey Says Giants Need A Champ, And John Harbaugh\u2019s The Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Jeremy Shockey<br \/>\n                          Giants Should Go Big, Hire John Harbaugh<br \/>\n                          No more &#8216;one-hit wonder&#8217; experiments<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              January 13, 2026<br \/>\n                            12:30 AM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/968deab59eb640b4bc203f0ee6b8dbd6_md.png\" alt=\"011226_jeremy_shockey_giants_kal_v2\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZSports.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jeremy-shockey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Shockey<\/a> has never been bashful &#8230; and his message to the New York Giants is simple &#8230; go get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/john-harbaugh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Harbaugh<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Pro Bowl tight end &#8212; who won a Super Bowl with the Giants in the 2007 season &#8212; tells TMZ Sports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/06\/john-harbaugh-fired-ravens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ex-Ravens coach<\/a> would be his pick for the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA coach of that caliber with that kind of pedigree and experience doesn\u2019t come around often,\u201d Shockey said, adding the G-Men shouldn\u2019t be chasing \u201cone-hit wonders\u201d or rolling the dice on another untested hire.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Instead, he pointed straight at Harbaugh\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9, calling him \u201ca champion and a winner\u201d while stressing the key point &#8212; he&#8217;s available.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260107_761a99b77beb49c1a9a19271e5891e68\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:ead76e63-0916-4ee9-9458-3952f1a6ff2c\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/761a99b77beb49c1a9a19271e5891e68_md.jpg\" alt=\"john harbaugh sub getty swipe\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Translation? Shockey thinks they&#8217;d be crazy not to pull the trigger.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the NYG aren&#8217;t the only org on the hunt for a new coach. In fact, one-fourth of the NFL is on the hunt for a new leader, and Harbaugh is atop most everybody&#8217;s wish lists for the reasons Shockey laid out.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the Giants are arguably the most attractive job out there. They have a promising young core with quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jaxson-dart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaxson Dart<\/a> &#8212; who cameras caught <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/09\/jaxson-dart-giants-coaching-search\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">addressing the coaching search<\/a> last week &#8212; and running back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/cam-skattebo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Skattebo<\/a>, who Shockey thinks shares similarities with himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m big fans of both of them, and I\u2019m excited to be a Giants fan myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5496b5c119c54d2d867906111415e211_md.png\" alt=\"011226_jeremy_shockey_miami_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZSports.com<\/p>\n<p>We also spoke with Shockey about his Canes leading up to their College Football Playoff championship game against the Indiana Hoosiers.<\/p>\n<p>The U hasn&#8217;t won a title since Shockey was an All-American during the 2000 season &#8230; something he believes will soon change.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the clip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Shockey Giants Should Go Big, Hire John Harbaugh No more &#8216;one-hit wonder&#8217; experiments Published January 13, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,88,2321,2469,6,9,266,4429],"class_list":{"0":"post-673670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-news","18":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115887118596113172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673670","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=673670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}