and Hello welcome to the Jim Harbaw is not coming here emergency podcast Matthew

collar all hodewannick who by the way is

launching his own skull searching column now at purple insider dot substack

com our newsletter so good for you Paul where you're going to be scouring the draft earth and we're going to

find out who the coach is going to be first to understand what comes next, but your column is very good.

We're launching that, so people should look for that.

But let's dive right into it.

Jim Harbaw told Michigan, I'm coming back.

I will not be a Minnesota Viking.

Adam Shefter drops the news around 630 tonight.

And I gotta say, Paul, throughout the whole week,

I was in the camp of being skeptical of this. I used that word probably too many times.

I wondered about how he might get along with Quasi Adafel Mentza. I wondered if he would come and

take the franchise completely by storm.

I wondered if this was something that they really wanted to do.

And it turns out that it was something that either Harbaw didn't actually want to do or they could not get on the same page about who would have the power how long the contract would be there were so many potential pot holes on the route to getting Jim Harbaw that apparently one of them fell through and I guess we'll all wait for the John U-Bacon report to find out exactly what happened, but Harbaw has informed Michigan, he's coming back and now the finalists are Kevin O'Connell, the offensive coordinator from the Rams, Patrick Graham, the defensive coordinator from the Giants, and the defensive

coordinator from the Rams Rahim Morris. Paul, give me your thoughts, Jim Harbaw, not the Vikings coach.

I mean, we're recording this maybe 10 minutes after the news broke, so I'm still a little bit in shock.

I mean, the last three days, we've basically operated under the assumption that Jim Harbaw is going to be the coach.

So now it's kind of a reset.

And you kind of have to re-evaluate this whole thing

and try to understand where it went wrong.

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