John Harbaugh Expected to be Giants' New Head Coach
The Mike Francesa Podcast
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4.6 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network, on what is, I'm sure, a very special joyous day for giant fans and they haven't had a whole lot of these for a very, very long time. |
| 0:19.4 | Let's be honest, okay? |
| 0:20.5 | Excuse me a second. We haven't had a lot of very long time. Let's be honest, okay? Excuse me a second. |
| 0:22.6 | We haven't had a lot of those at all. |
| 0:25.2 | Now, while we do not have official word from the giants, |
| 0:31.9 | what we do know and what I have ascertained to my satisfaction is that Harbour is coming. |
| 0:44.2 | He has canceled his meeting with Tennessee. |
| 0:47.2 | Tennessee was Tennessee and Atlanta with the other threats is my understanding. |
| 0:52.0 | But I have a mutual friend, a close friend of mine who was |
| 0:57.7 | close friends with Harbaugh. Tennessee was a real threat. Lifestyle was a big issue and he liked |
| 1:06.0 | Cam Ward. Atlanta didn't have a quarterback. That was the big problem. Atlanta, if they had a quarterback, |
| 1:11.7 | would have been a big threat. He wanted a quarterback. He did not want a quarterback headache. He |
| 1:18.6 | wanted a quarterback solution. That was very important to him. He also, from what I understand, |
| 1:24.0 | was very taken by the Giant Heritage, which I thought he would be. |
| 1:32.0 | And the Giants put on the full court press. |
| 1:33.2 | Let's be honest, they did it right. |
| 1:38.1 | So give John Marron, Chris Mara, and Steve Tisch, and everybody else who was involved, |
| 1:40.2 | credit, they got the job done. |
| 1:41.4 | They landed the big fish. And now the Giants are no longer in this wasteland that they have |
| 1:46.8 | been in since the day they got rid of Tom Coughlin and it was a very unhappy day for Tom Coughlin. |
| 1:52.3 | And I have admitted to Tom that I was wrong. I thought during the third year, hey, if Tom |
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