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Evan & Tiki

Hour 1: Giants Coaching Search Panic vs Patience (Harbaugh, Stefanski, Tomlin?)

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.6945 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Hour 1 opens with a wild thought experiment: what if the Giants coaching market gets even crazier, with longshot names like Sean McVay or Matt LaFleur potentially entering the mix? With Shaun Morash filling in for Tiki, the show debates the core question every Giants fan is wrestling with: do you strike fast for John Harbaugh, or stay patient and let the full “historic” coaching class reveal itself? Evan argues the Giants cannot afford a waiting game where they lose Kevin Stefanski while hoping Harbaugh doesn’t pick a more playoff-ready “mystery team.” The conversation turns into a full breakdown of urgency versus patience, Rooney Rule logistics, and whether the Giants should have been interviewing candidates weeks ago to get a true head start. Then it gets even messier: Jets fans start dreaming about firing Aaron Glenn for a tiny shot at landing Harbaugh, leading to a heated debate about realism, desperation, and whether a “secret backchannel” is the only way to even find out if a coach would consider the job. The hour wraps with a spirited caller segment, resume comparisons (Harbaugh vs McCarthy), and a preview of a deep dive into why some Ravens fans turned on Harbaugh in recent years.

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0:00.0

What if Sean McVeigh, this is a pipe dream, says, eh, I don't want to be in LA anymore. This market of head coaches, which is already really good and really appealing, could get better. So I just want to calm everyone down. Harbaugh's awesome. It would be an amazing hire. But this list could get even better, bro. Matt LaFleur could appear on this list as well.

0:22.0

That's true. By the way, Tiki's off.

0:23.3

That's why you're hearing Sean's voice,

0:24.5

even though this is Evan and Tiki with Sean Morash. Tiki back tomorrow. Yes. Matt LaFleur could add to this list. This is wild, Evan. I remember we talked about when Daible got fired And what was so unappealing to me as a Giants fan was you heard every defensive coordinator name.

0:38.6

And we don't need to rehash them now at this point because they might become really irrelevant. But it was the idea of, you know, it just feels like the Giants waited with Brian Daible, held on to him, and now they're going to have a head coaching vacancy in what appears to be the worst year to need a head coach. Yep. It's completely done a 180. 100%. This might be the best year

0:54.5

for an organization

0:55.2

like the Giants to be looking

0:56.3

for a head coach,

0:57.3

so they better get it right

0:58.4

and not with now.

0:59.5

But that's why you've got to take your time.

1:04.7

No, you don't. You just want to hire John Harbaugh? No, no. First of all. fill the Rooney Rule?

1:05.0

No, no.

1:05.5

Just move on.

1:06.8

Here's the worry about John Harbaugh,

1:07.8

and here's what's already happening to me,

1:08.8

which has put me in sheer panic mode.

1:11.1

We get the report last night

1:12.3

that John Harbaugh,

1:14.0

agent has already had... And here's what's already happening to me, which has put me in sheer panic mode.

1:29.8

We get the report last night that John Harbaugh, agent, has already had seven teams reach out to them. Was that the number? There's six openings besides the Ravens? There are seven openings. The Ravens are one of them. So yes, there is a mystery team that has reached out who currently has a head coach for John Harbaugh. Now, I don't know. maybe at some point in the next four hours we play guest the mystery team and that's fine.

1:28.4

But the bottom line is this, if the mystery team is a team in the postseason that is going to do with Joe Girardi, and it doesn't matter when they get eliminated, they're going to get rid of their guy. And John Harbaugh knows that and wants to speak with that team, because clearly that's a more ready team than the Giants because they're in the freaking postseason, right? I am not delaying hiring Kevin Stafansky with the hopes

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