Things are heating up.

So let's break it all down with a guy with as much inside as anybody.

The great Connor Hughes does a fine job for SNY. Connor, Sean Morash, Evan Roberts. How you doing today, man? I'm doing well, guys. How are you? Excellent. So when do they hire John Harbaugh? Do they do it by the end of tomorrow? Like, how quickly are they going to pull this off? well they they still have to go through the whole process. And I don't necessarily mean the process with Harba. I think if they could have the way that they wanted, yeah, they would probably hire him just about on the spot. But they still have to go through the Rooney Rule process and go through the multiple in-person interviews with minorities and things of that nature. so this is going to take time but we make no doubt about it I mean he seems to be the guy

they want from everything I've heard. Now, Connor, when it comes to Joe Shane and John Harbaugh, I know there's varying reports out there that that wouldn't be a deterrent. Do you think internally, Joe Shane is really going to push harder for a guy like Stefansky because he's worried about his own job with the John Harbaugh coming in?

That is the thing.

That's such a great question, Sean, because I think that's what fascinates me the most because I dug on this. And it was once Harbaugh, once Harbaugh was let go and you knew the Giants were going to be interested in it, I've been fortunate enough to be around enough people now that have worked with Harbaugh or no Harbaugh.

And I've heard conflicting things.

You know, some people told me, no way in heck. Paul says, I've been fortunate enough to be around enough people now that have worked with Harbaugh or no Harbaugh, and I've heard conflicting things.

You know, some people told me, no way in heck, he's going to want to work with Joe Shane. Other people told me, no, there's going to be no way it wouldn't be deterrent at all. He would absolutely take it. So I've heard conflicting things about it. what I fall back on is that if you're Joe Shane and you are the one who is leading this search,

and for all intents and purposes,

seems to be the one who is leading this search,

and for all intents and purposes, seems to be the guy that is the front man for this search

and doing all the work and in these interviews and taking guys out to dinner and all that stuff,

why would you even be entertaining someone if you had a fear that he's going to come in and

immediately boot you out? I mean, again, that's not a source thing. That's just me falling back on logic. I can't imagine he would do that. I mean, I could see this being a one-year relationship, potentially, and if it doesn't work, Shane moves on and the Giants move forward with Harbaugh. I don't necessarily know, but I don't think that this will be Shane saying, hey, we need to go with Stefansky instead of Harbaugh trying to save his own. You know what? Because at the end of the day, when you compare the resumes and you compare the type of coach Harbaugh is, there's a reason why teams with coaches are calling about him, let alone the Giants not doing everything they can to try to get him. So on that note, unfortunately, you've been here for plenty of coaching changes in the New York locals.

Is there ever going to be a point in time where John Harbaugh is in a room with people involved with the Giants that Joe Shane is also not in the same room at the same time? I don't know the answer to that. I mean, it, I guess you talk, like, if this gets to an interview

point where you say, okay, you know, it's just the Tish or it's just Mara or whoever, I don't know. Just because if John doesn't want to work with Joe, it's very hard to say that with Joe in the room, you know what I mean? Correct. Correct. Yeah. Look, I think here's the thing. If you hire somebody like Kevin Stefansky or you hire somebody

like Mike McCarthy or you hire one of these coordinating guys, which, you know, whether it's

Shula or Minter, guys who have absolutely resumes that are deserving of head coaching consideration

and potentially head coaching jobs, these are guys that are going to get jobs. And when they are in

there, it's going to be, okay, you're the head coach. That's the general manager. You're going to have your role. General manager is going to have your role collaborative, working together, but it's going to be one and one. You know what I mean? It's going to be one over here, one over there. When you bring in somebody like Harbaugh, it's immediately his show. it's it's's, and it's, I wouldn't say it's neutering Joe Shane's power in any way, shape, or form. He's still going to be controlling the draft, but if you're going by the quote-unquote final say, almost comparing it in a way to what the Jets right now have with, with Aaron Glenn and Darren Mugi, Aaron Glenn has final say on everything. Darren Mojee's still the general manager. He's making the draft picks. But the final say and the main voice of the deciding factor, if it's a 50-50 vote, it's going to be Aaron Glenn. That's the case when you hire somebody like Harbaugh. He becomes the extra vote. His voice carries more weight when you're somebody who is of his stature and

it accomplished what he's accomplished. You brought up the J-word, the Jets. I am a supporter of

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