John Harbaugh MASSIVE HIRE for New York Giants & Josh Allen NOW OR NEVER For Buffalo Bills Chances

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The New York Giants made the first and largest splash of the NFL hiring cycle when they sealed the deal with John Harbaugh on Thursday morning. This is a perfect pairing of best candidate and best opportunity on the market. Harbaugh has a lot to work with the and Giants could be playoff contenders immediately. However, the football this weekend is the bigger focus as we head into the divisional round. In the NFC, the Los Angeles Rams are the favorites, but playing in the cold weather has been a historically challenging thing for Matthew Stafford, which gives the Chicago Bears and Caleb Williams an advantage. The Seattle Seahawks are primed to smoke the San Francisco 49ers as the magic has to wear off eventually from all the injuries. In the AFC, it is NOW or NEVER, for Josh Allen who has as easy of a path to the Super Bowl as he will ever get as the Buffalo Bills head to take on the Denver Broncos. The New England Patriots and Houston Texans will be a fierce defensive battle, but Drake Maye and the Pats offense actually is what will win the day.

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0:00.0	The New York Giants get their man and John Harbaugh, and I think that sets up a giant comeback for the team next year.
0:08.6	That more on today's edition of Locked on NFL.
0:10.9	The new Locked on NFL.
0:13.2	The madman Tyler Rowland is your double shot of NFL espresso with the locked on local experts on every major story.
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0:32.6	Football fans welcome in to the Locked on NFL podcast bringing you a double dose of the NFL's biggest
0:38.9	stories with help from our local experts that know your favorite teams like no one else
0:43.5	I am your host the madman Tyler Roland joined today by locked on NFL expert Nick Cattles
0:49.1	on today's show we got to talk about the best weekend of football all year. I'm going to do my
0:54.9	madman's moneymaker and go over my best bets of the divisional round weekend. But we got
1:00.5	to start with the biggest news in the NFL and that's John Harbaugh going to the New York
1:05.4	Giants. And again, I think that sets the Giants up for a big time comeback next year. Before we
1:10.1	dive in though, do want to let you know that today's episode is brought to you by Game Time.
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1:28.5	Well, it was a little bit of a midnight run on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, Nick.
1:34.0	We got the Adam Schechter drop real late that Harbaugh would sign with the New York Giants to be their next head coach.
1:40.9	And I just thought it was funny.
1:42.6	The madness of the day, the planes, this and that,
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