Ravens FIRE Head Coach John Harbaugh After 18 Seasons | Replacements, 2026 Expectations & More!
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Mike Renner and JP Acosta react to the Baltimore Ravens firing John Harbaugh as their head coach following Week 18. The guys discuss how we got here, expectations for next season, possible replacements and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to another emergency edition of Pushing the Pile brought to by Fando Sportsbook, Make Every Moment more. |
| 0:20.7 | We're coming live because news just dropped. |
| 0:23.7 | John Harbaugh out as Ravens head coach. |
| 0:26.6 | After 18 seasons at the helm, the second longest tenured head coach currently in the NFL |
| 0:32.5 | behind only division rival Mike Tomlin. |
| 0:36.5 | He was Super Bowl 47 champion. |
| 0:38.5 | He was 2019 coach of the year. |
| 0:40.3 | He had 180 wins most in Ravens history. |
| 0:43.6 | And the Ravens now, one of the pinnacles of stability throughout the NFL, two coaches this |
| 0:49.6 | millennium. |
| 0:50.6 | Since 1999, it's been only Brian Biller and John Harbaugh. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, they're about to get a third. |
| 0:57.7 | I felt like this was coming, but it still feels shocking to see. And I think a large part of it is |
| 1:03.4 | because, like you said, John Harbaugh has been a mainstay in the NFL. You can't think of the NFL |
| 1:08.8 | without thinking of John Harbaugh coaching the Ravens. |
| 1:11.6 | You think of John Harbaugh versus Mike Tomlin. And now we're not getting that anymore. |
| 1:16.5 | It feels sort of shocking. But also when you watch this team, it felt like this team just didn't |
| 1:22.0 | have it from a procedural, from a high leverage situation standpoint. and that stuff falls onto coaching. |
| 1:29.4 | So I'm really curious what was happening behind the scenes in Baltimore this year, |
| 1:33.8 | and I'm sure we'll get a – well, I'm sure we'll get a story like that coming in the next few weeks or months. |
| 1:39.8 | But I am so curious about this Ravens job because it immediately jumps to the top of any coaching list. |
| 1:46.4 | Yeah, this isn't too surprising given the smoke that was around them, the article that Mike Preston of the Baltimore Sun wrote a few weeks back, |
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