NEWS: Ravens Fire John Harbaugh
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The Baltimore Ravens have fired head coach John Harbaugh. Robert Mays and Dave Helman break down the news and react to what's next for Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, and the rest of the roster.
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Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Video Producer: Katy Duffy
Audio Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:05.4 | Been a while since we did an emergency episode on the feed. |
| 0:10.0 | We're doing a show every day, and not much stuff rises to this level. |
| 0:13.5 | But I can tell you, this news did. |
| 0:16.0 | John Harbaugh out as the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. |
| 0:21.0 | A pretty shocking moment, even if maybe you could believe that it might be on the |
| 0:25.6 | horizon after how this Raven season went, but still crazy to see it actually happen. |
| 0:31.5 | And Dave Hellman joined me to break this down from every single front. |
| 0:36.1 | What this means for the Ravens? Why we arrived here? |
| 0:38.7 | Where John Harbaugh might land? |
| 0:40.2 | Who the Ravens might be seeking out? |
| 0:41.8 | Where does Todd Monken go because of all of this? |
| 0:44.1 | So just so much to sort through. |
| 0:46.6 | And me and Dave did our best to get through all of it. |
| 0:50.4 | So let's get to that conversation with me and Dave Hellman right now. |
| 1:01.6 | Thank you. all of it. So let's get to that conversation with me and Dave Hellman right now. Every once in a while, you're sitting there scroll in the internet and something crumbs across |
| 1:06.9 | the timeline that leads you to a holy shit moment. And that is what happened this afternoon. |
| 1:12.8 | John Harbaugh officially out as the Baltimore Ravens head coach after 18 seasons. |
| 1:19.8 | Dave, we kind of danced around this in a bunch of different ways over the last week or so. |
| 1:24.8 | On Sunday, I said after that game, I was really geared in my voice, I was disappointed in the way that they played, and I was a little bit disheartened by the way that they played. And I think the phrase I used was, I think the Ravens need to take a long look in the mirror about who they want to be after the way that this season ended. And I always knew that this might be a version of that, but even if you had that in the |
| 1:46.0 | back of your mind, seeing it actually happen after how good the Ravens had been for how long |
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