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<\/a><\/p>\nJun 3, 2026; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants head coach John Harbaugh looks on during organized team activities at Quest Diagnostics Training Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Offensive line coach Mike Bloomgren had never worked with Harbaugh before accepting a job on his coaching staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is all about ball, and he\u2019s all about what can I do to help the players perform,\u201d Bloomgren said. \u201cAnd, I know you guys haven\u2019t had an opportunity to go to his team meetings, but every day is like a TED Talk.<\/a> And, like, I leave there ready to go take the field myself.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I think all of our groups do, too. It\u2019s awesome to be a part of with somebody with this much of a laser focus on making the 2026 New York Giants the best they can be.\u201d<\/p>\n Linebacker Tremaine Edmunds, entering his ninth NFL season, admitted Harbaugh is one of the reasons he wanted to be a Giant.<\/p>\n \u201cThat goes into the decision of why I wanted to come here, to be around that, to know what he stands for,\u201d Edmunds said. \u201cNot just obviously on the field, but even talking with him, you know what I mean? He\u2019s a guy that you just get the feel, like you know what, man, he\u2019s all ball. It\u2019s not just all talk. It\u2019s based off his resum\u00e9. Just look at the things that he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you have any type of competitive drive in your blood or whatever, you want to be playing for a guy like that.\u201d<\/p>\n At his introductory press conference, Harbaugh said his parents, Jack and Jackie Harbaugh, taught him to attack each day \u201cwith an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n While driving through Montana to visit friends earlier this month (yes, even \u201call ball\u201d head coaches take some time off now and then), Harbaugh offered Big Blue View his perspective on the Harbaugh Experience and how others view it.<\/p>\n \u201cI guess I take it as a compliment in the sense of, just that\u2019s what we\u2019re here for,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cI\u2019ve become obsessed with it. I always have been.<\/p>\n \u201cI have other things in my life and whatnot. But as far as when you walk into the building, and we talk about other things, too, but it\u2019s always making it about that and not getting caught up in other trains of thought or other priorities or agendas. Just trying to keep it about what we\u2019re here for, what\u2019s important. And try to really be over the top in terms of that and have fun with it and make it important and just make what they do important and them important and all those kind of things.\u201d<\/p>\n TED Talks, for the uninitiated, are basically idea-filled, motivational speeches of 18 minutes or less. Bloomgren\u2019s remark sent me scurrying to the Internet to find that out.<\/p>\n \u201cI think one thing that really stands out is just the messaging,\u201d Edmunds said. \u201cHe\u2019s a quote type guy. Every day he\u2019s kind of giving us a little nugget here and there that we can put into our belt that we can take with us outside of football. Some stuff is just dedicated to football; some stuff is life skills, and I appreciate that, because you can relate to him just outside of the game.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd us players, it\u2019s going to make you want to play ten times harder for the coach, which is why he\u2019s had success in the past, which now we all can see why like, you know what? That makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n Every opportunity to talk to his team, every chance to have a meeting, have a conversation, have a practice is important to Harbaugh. Nothing is meaningless.<\/p>\n \u201cTo me, it\u2019s like if it\u2019s worth, if we\u2019re all going to be here, we\u2019re doing something that we feel like is meaningful and important,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cThen, to me that goes through eternity. If you want to look at life that way, which is how I look at it, then let\u2019s go, man. Let\u2019s give it everything we got. Let\u2019s be over the top for that.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to be too cool, too cool for school, or act like this is just another day, or this is like old hat. Nothing is old hat. Everything is new. Everything is a new day, a new opportunity, just to be your best. Talk to them all the time. I mean, being your best is really hard to do. Doing your best is really hard to do. It takes a lot. You got to really be intentional about that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018A good damn football coach\u2019<\/p>\n Willie Taggart\u2019s playing and coaching career has been associated with the Harbaugh family for more than 30 years. John and Jim Harbaugh helped recruit Taggart to play quarterback for their father, Jack, at Western Kentucky. He played there from 1995-98. Taggart then coached for Jack Harbaugh at Western Kentucky for a few seasons. He coached running backs at Stanford for Jim Harbaugh from 2007-2009. He coached running backs for John Harbaugh in Baltimore for the past three seasons.<\/p>\n No one around the Giants knows Harbaugh better than Taggart, who now coaches the team\u2019s running backs. He knows why Harbaugh succeeds on the field, and earns respect off of it<\/p>\n \u201cI just think it\u2019s a Harbaugh thing,\u201d Taggart said. \u201cWhat I mean by that when it comes to coaching for the most part you either get one or the other, forcefulness or sincerity. Not many coaches have both. When you\u2019re dealing with the Harbaughs, they have \u2018em both. They know how to do \u2018em both and they do \u2018em very well. They\u2019re great with people. As a player you appreciate that. You appreciate when a coach can get on you, and also when a coach can pat you on the back and tell you that you did a good job, as well.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a good damn football coach that can motivate players, motivate people, but also teach them.\u201d<\/p>\n Odell Beckham Jr. was out of football when someone from the Giants reached out to him for an opinion on Harbaugh, whom Beckham played for in Baltimore in 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a man of God. This is a leader of men. And truly, from a football aspect, in those meetings, how attentive he was and those little things that come up in the game that sometimes you have to take for granted, he\u2019s very much on it. And he leads in a very good way,\u201d Beckham said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd he just was one of my favorite coaches that I ever had. So, I spoke very highly of him when they asked me about who should be here.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I believe they got just the right man for the job, someone who could actually change the culture \u2014 or at least start it in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership, wisdom, relationship building. It\u2019s all off the charts.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 \u2014 OLB coach Charlie Bullen<\/p>\n Patrick Ricard spent nine seasons playing for Harbaugh in Baltimore. As a free agent, the 300-pound fullback never hesitated about the idea of signing with the Giants and reunite with Harbaugh.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just very grateful for Coach Harbaugh. I mean, he\u2019s been in my corner my whole career. He\u2019s believed in me. And as soon as I saw he got the job here, I was definitely interested,\u201d Ricard said. \u201cI even told him, like, look, if you were coaching a Pop Warner football team, I\u2019m interested. I\u2019m there doing something. I don\u2019t even know if I\u2019m like the water boy, you know what I\u2019m saying?<\/p>\n \u201cSo, like as soon as he was interested in me coming here, I was all in.\u201d<\/p>\n Ricard knows what to expect from Harbaugh. He also knows his role in helping players new to the Harbaugh Experience understand it.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s going to bring just that culture that he had in Baltimore in terms of being together, playing together, going through the adversities that a season brings, just being all the things that you want to see in a football team, smart, physical, disciplined, and I think that he\u2019s done it for 19 years,\u201d Ricard said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to continue to bring it here, and I\u2019m happy to be one of the players that\u2019s going to kind of just kind of show the guys what he wants, what he expects out of us.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u2019s the biggest thing is he\u2019s a great leader. He understands how to bring a group of men and make them one. And I think that\u2019s the biggest thing is that we can all understand that he is our leader, and as long as we do right by him, we\u2019ll be all right.\u201d<\/p>\n