Harbaugh(!), Pete Carroll, and Stefanski Fired. Plus, DK's First 2026 Mock Draft.

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

The guys react to the shocking firing of John Harbaugh in Baltimore and discuss what it means for the Ravens, Lamar Jackson, and the rest of the AFC moving forward. They then break down the rest of Black Monday—including the firings of Pete Carroll, Kevin Stefanski, Jonathan Gannon, and Raheem Morris—before ranking the best open jobs, roasting the Giants’ dysfunction, and diving into DK’s first mock draft of the year with Fernando Mendoza, Cam Ward, and the other top quarterbacks in the class. (00:00) Intro (03:17) NFL coach firings (32:23) DK's mock draft (55:47) John Harbaugh fired! (01:20:52) Mock draft resumed (01:33:20) Emails Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau Check out the 2025 Ringer Fantasy Football Rankings: https://fantasyfootball.theringer.com/ Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Kai Grady, Carlos Chiriboga, and Cameron Dinwiddie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, before we start the show, just want to note,
0:09.4	John Harbaugh got fired by the Ravens while we were recording this episode.
0:12.9	So we are going to talk about that, but when we find out about it later in the episode,
0:17.1	we'll have in the episode description, the timestamp, if you want to hear directly about that.
0:20.0	But there's a reason that when we're talking about all the coach firings we're not talking
0:23.0	about john harbaw so we will get to that i promise okay let's start the show
0:27.5	welcome of Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:42.9	My name is Danny Heifitz, and I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlebeck.
0:45.6	And we have a lot in the show today.
0:47.3	A bunch of coaches got fired.
0:48.5	We're going to go over that.
0:49.1	And Danny Kelly has his mock draft 1.0 up on the ringer.com.
0:55.0	D.K.
0:58.0	I got you picked up on that.
0:59.0	Haifis doesn't get it.
1:01.0	He hasn't seen dumb and dumber, which is,
1:03.0	what did you say?
1:04.0	To this day, the weirdest thing ever.
1:06.0	I know, I'm ashamed of it.
1:08.0	Watch it and then listen to the rewatchables of Jennifer Lawrence.
1:27.8	I live listening to that rewatchments. Anyway, sorry, what were you saying? You have a mock draft up at the ringer.com. People can go and look and it's incredibly. You got everything right. So we'll just go over that. I nailed it. Yeah. You're done. You're done. It's January 6th celebrate. Hayes in the barn.
1:30.0	You don't need to do any more draft work.
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