{"id":93875,"date":"2026-01-08T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93875\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:32:21","slug":"john-harbaugh-to-giants-the-pros-and-cons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93875\/","title":{"rendered":"John Harbaugh to Giants: The pros and cons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If John Harbaugh takes another head coaching job in the NFL, he\u2019ll bring the most wins with him (180 with Baltimore) to his second stop of any coach since Curly Lambeau and his 209 victories went from Green Bay to the Chicago Cardinals in 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh no doubt immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/07\/sports\/giants-fans-may-have-to-do-the-unthinkable-if-they-want-john-harbaugh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moved to the top of several teams\u2019 wish lists<\/a> when his time with the Ravens <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/06\/sports\/john-harbaughs-availability-forces-change-in-giants-plans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">came to a somewhat unexpected end<\/a> after 18 seasons on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>For the Giants, the 63-year-old would be a solid choice, especially for general manager Joe Schoen, who must know he\u2019s on thin ice, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/05\/sports\/joe-schoen-staying-as-giants-gm-after-another-awful-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">given the team\u2019s miserable performance<\/a> over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps that should be the main goal for the front office and ownership: Get someone on the sideline <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/07\/sports\/giants-look-for-experienced-head-coaches-as-candidate-list-grows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who can clean up this mess<\/a> and at least give the Giants a fighting chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If John Harbaugh takes another head coaching job in the NFL, he\u2019ll bring the most wins with him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22381,34377,9,2683,11,10,22,4780,9145,319,428],"class_list":["post-93875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-john-harbaugh","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sean-payton","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}