{"id":409098,"date":"2026-01-12T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409098\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:34:09","slug":"falcons-interview-john-harbaugh-who-has-been-vetting-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409098\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons interview John Harbaugh, who has been vetting teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlanta Falcons<\/a> announced Monday that they have completed an interview with John Harbaugh for their head coaching job.<\/p>\n

It is Harbaugh’s first formal interview since he was fired<\/a> by the Baltimore Ravens<\/a> last week, but sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday that Harbaugh has been conducting preliminary and extensive phone calls with the New York Giants<\/a>, Tennessee Titans<\/a>, Cleveland Browns<\/a>, Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> and Arizona Cardinals<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

He is trying to determine which teams to meet with later this week and into next week before deciding where he will coach next season, the sources told Schefter.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh, 63, ranks 12th for most wins by a head coach in NFL history with 193 and guided the Ravens to a Super Bowl title in 2012. He was named the NFL’s Coach of the Year in 2019.<\/p>\n

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In leading the Ravens for 18 seasons, he was the second-longest active coach in the league behind Mike Tomlin, who is in his 19th season with the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Harbaugh didn’t produce as much postseason success in recent years as he had earlier in his career, which was a major disappointment considering he had two-time NFL Most Valuable Player Lamar Jackson<\/a>. In eight seasons with Jackson, Harbaugh won only three playoff games and never advanced past the AFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n

The preseason betting favorite to win the Super Bowl, the Ravens (8-9) finished this season with a losing record for only the third time under Harbaugh.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh is the fifth candidate to interview for the Falcons’ job after the team fired coach Raheem Morris<\/a> following an 8-9 season. The Falcons will also be interviewing former Miami Dolphins<\/a> coach Mike McDaniel later Monday, a source told ESPN.<\/p>\n

The Falcons, who will also be hiring a new general manager after firing Terry Fontenot, hired former franchise quarterback Matt Ryan as their president of football, a new position created by owner Arthur Blank.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Jamison Hensley contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Falcons announced Monday that they have completed an interview with John Harbaugh for their head coaching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-409098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}