Huge news, McDermott is out, the 10th coaching opening.

Though currently there's only eight because the Giants have officially hired John Harbaugh,

and the Falcons are hiring Kevin Stefansky.

Now, back to Harbaugh real quick.

Over the weekend, and really late Friday, there was some concern because the eyes hadn't been dotted

and the T's hadn't been crossed.

And so I was under the impression,

it's a no biggie situation. They're negotiating, no problem. Sean got very worried. He was arguing

with people on social media. Basically, he was panicking. This is the end of the world. It's going to be

Bill Belichick all over again. And eventually, John Harbaugh did sign his contract, released some

great statements about the Giants,

and we have a press conference tomorrow, which we will be at beginning at 10 a.m., press conference at 12 noon.

What happened in these negotiations?

We speculated.

Sean was speculating.

But Ian O'Connor, who has been all over this from the beginning, we had them on last week, he's done a great job, is now revealing to us what the holdup was. So let's go to the John Harbaugh desk with Sean Morash. All right, this fan focus is sponsored by Chef IQ, Precision Cooking, Effortless Results, Chef IQ.com. So news coming down this morning in a column in the athletic from

Ian O'Connor. And I'll just read you this excerpt first before getting to some other bullet points.

This holdup, you know, this wasn't about shame. The coach definitely feels he could work with the

general manager. Harbaugh wanted the ability to impact the entire operation, from security to training, to analytics, to media relations, to staff size, to assist assistance salaries, to relocation expenses, to you name it.

And yes, in the unlikely event, there's a stalemate on draft day between Harbaugh and Shane,

quote, there's no longer any question who will prevail.

That obviously being Harbaugh.

...