6: HARBAUGH MANIA: New York Giants Land John Harbaugh and Instantly RESTORE Franchise Respectability
NY Giants Weekly
Gotham Sports Network
4.5 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
New York Giants score a franchise-redefining win by landing John Harbaugh as head coach, sparking hope and credibility after years in the wilderness. Can Harbaugh revive the team’s culture and restore the winning standard lost since Tom Coughlin’s departure? The stakes couldn’t be higher, with ownership pulling out all the stops—Chris Mara and Steve Tisch leading the charge, and a rumored $100 million contract on the table—to secure the NFL’s proven program builder.
Ethan, Weis, and Nick break down the full-court press that brought Harbaugh to New York, the impact on the Giants’ coaching staff, and what this means for the power dynamic with GM Joe Schoen. Key topics include building the Giants’ floor for consistent playoff contention, potential defensive coordinator hires like Jim Leonhard, and comparisons to Andy Reid’s transformative role with the Chiefs. Is this the dawn of a new era for Giants football, or will old challenges linger?
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| 0:00.0 | Gotham Sports Network presents NYG Weekly |
| 0:09.0 | NYG Weekly. |
| 0:14.0 | NYG Weekly, Ethan Weiss, Nick, here with you and who's got it better than us? |
| 0:26.5 | Nobody. |
| 0:28.5 | Before we get into the latest and the greatest with New York Giants, coach John Harbaugh, |
| 0:34.4 | we got to take care of the housekeeping, follow us on Twitter, follow me at Ethan GSM, |
| 0:41.9 | follow Weiss at NYG Daily, follow Nick at Nick Zararras. Follow the blog, Gotham S&. Subscribe, subscribe, iTunes, audio, boom, Google, play Stitch Radio, Spotify. Subscribe, unsubscribe, resubscribe. |
| 0:47.2 | Rate us five stars. Leave his kind of review. And we are off. All right. Well, after a day of plane watching dinners, Ian O'Connor novels, ending with Paul Schwartz and Josina Anderson tweets, 11.30 p.m., everything just blows up. |
| 1:10.6 | Everything changes. The Giants franchise is back. |
| 1:15.5 | It's back. There is now some respectability. There is now some hope. And I think we are on the |
| 1:25.5 | precipice of a lot of fun. |
| 1:29.1 | And that's what matters in all this. |
| 1:30.8 | Isn't it, fellas, fun? |
| 1:37.6 | Because Weiss, I believe I heard you talking on Bobby's live stream yesterday at some point. |
| 1:39.5 | And I've said it on this podcast too. |
| 1:46.2 | The Giants have sucked the life out of me to the extent that i had no idea who was in the playoffs what draft seating mattered or who needed to lose who needed to win i could not have |
| 1:52.0 | been more checked out could not have been more upset and depressed as a season ticket holder who |
| 1:57.7 | as early as last year was trying to figure out a way to offload my PSLs because |
| 2:02.5 | I didn't want the headache anymore. |
| 2:05.4 | Feeling completely distraught going into an offseason where you fire the coach, your |
| 2:10.7 | GM is left on a one year expiring contract and who is going to come work for this mess. |
| 2:17.3 | And then John Harbaugh pops free. |
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