{"id":685058,"date":"2026-01-17T21:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685058\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:25:13","slug":"ny-giants-news-john-harbaugh-hiring-as-head-coach-finally-made-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685058\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants news: John Harbaugh hiring as head coach finally made official"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Harbaugh is officially head coach of the New York Giants. Finally. More than 48 hours after news broke that the Giants and the former Baltimore Ravens coach were finalizing a deal to bring him to New Jersey, that deal is finally done.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh \u201caccepted the job\u201d on Thursday morning, with final details of a five-year contract still needing to be worked out.<\/p>\n

Once the deal was complete, Harbaugh told ESPN:<\/p>\n

\u201dThis is the New York Giants. I\u2019m proud and honored to the head coach of this historic franchise, and especially excited to work with the Mara and Tisch families. But most of all, I can\u2019t wait to get started with the great players on this football team to see what we can accomplish together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harbaugh, 180-113 (.614 winning percentage) with a Super Bowl title and 12 playoff appearances in 18 seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, was fired at the end of the season after Baltimore went 8-9 and missed the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s been a little overblown,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cWe are going to bolster up the analytics a bit. The Giants actually have a bigger sports science staff than we had. We didn\u2019t really have a sports science dept. in Baltimore.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Giants are hoping Harbaugh, who had just three losing seasons with the Ravens, can finally turn around a franchise that has been floundering since letting two-time Super Bowl-winning coach Tom Coughlin go after the 2015 season. In reality, struggling since winning the 2011 Super Bowl, the last great accomplishment with Coughlin as head coach and Eli Manning as quarterback.<\/p>\n

The Giants are 13-38 (.255 winning percentage) the past three seasons, second-worst record in the NFL behind the Tennessee Titans (12-39 (.235) during that stretch. Since they won the 2011 Super Bowl, the Giants have the fourth-worst record in the NFL (83-145-1, .369). Since 2017, the Giants\u2019 44-104-1 (.299) are a half-game behind the New York Jets (44-105, .295) for the worst record in the league.<\/p>\n

During the last two seasons, the Giants are a combined 7-27. New York fired Brian Daboll midseason when the team was 2-8. The Giants went 2-5 with Mike Kafka as interim head coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the New York Football Giants,\u201d Harbaugh told The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get started. I know how great our fans are. I\u2019ve seen them close up enough. We are going to build a team that\u2019s going to play a brand of football that you will be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Giants\u2019 ultra-aggressive chase of Harbaugh included a barrage of phone calls from GM Joe Schoen, as well as contact between Harbaugh and co-owner John Mara, Eli Manning, Tom Coughlin and even Daboll. Chris Mara also traveled to Harbaugh\u2019s Baltimore home for lunch and a meeting.<\/p>\n

In a poll asking Big Blue View readers their opinion of the hiring, 95.2% said it was a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Harbaugh is officially head coach of the New York Giants. Finally. More than 48 hours after news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,81078,1207,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-685058","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-new-york-giants-coaching-staff","13":"tag-new-york-giants-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115912555462089861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685058","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=685058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}