Giants Get Their Man! John Harbaugh Hired As Team’s 24th Head Coach

The New York Giants person reached a five-year woody pinch erstwhile Baltimore Ravens caput coach John Harbaugh to make nan Midwest autochthonal nan team’s 24th caput coach successful its 101-year franchise history.

Harbaugh, who skyrocketed to nan apical of nan disposable coaching hires pursuing his dismissal by nan Ravens connected January 6, aft Ravens proprietor Steve Bisciotti decided aft reportedly contemplating nan determination for weeks.

Bisciotti’s determination was solidified erstwhile nan Ravens, successful their regular-season finale against nan Steelers, grounded to unafraid nan triumph and nan AFC North section acknowledgment to kicker Tyler Loop missing a game-winning section goal. 

Given a caller start, Harbaugh represents possibly nan astir breathtaking caput coaching prosecute for nan Giants since Tom Coughlin. 

Harbaugh, dissimilar nan erstwhile caput coaches that followed Coughlin–Ben McAdoo, Pat Shurmur, Joe Judge, and Brian Daboll–not only brings measurement much acquisition but besides an awesome 193-124 wide grounds (.609 winning percentage) to nan table, including a 13-11 postseason grounds that includes 1 Super Bowl championship.

He is nan all-time winningest caput coach successful Ravens history and led nan Ravens to 12 playoff berths successful 18 seasons, posting double-digit wins successful each but 7 of those seasons.

Why Harbaugh is nan correct choice

The Giants are astatine a constituent successful their history where, since nan departure of Coughlin, they are 55-109-1, pinch only 2 postseason appearances, those coming successful 2016 erstwhile they mislaid nan Wild Card information nether McAdoo and successful 2022 erstwhile they won their first postseason crippled (Wild Card information vs. Minnesota) earlier losing nan divisional information against Philadelphia nether Brian Daboll.

The Giants person besides not vanished first successful nan NFC East since 2011, erstwhile they won nan Super Bowl aft going 9-7 that season.

Although Harbaugh’s last play successful Baltimore ended astatine 8-9, he’s had acold much occurrence than failure. Harbaugh posted 11 double-digit winning seasons pinch nan Ravens, each of which led to postseason berths, including nan 2012 10-6 run that led to nan franchise’s Super Bowl victory. He’s besides won nan AFC North title six times, including 2019 erstwhile nan Ravens posted an awesome 14-2 mark. 

And his teams person only been outscored by season’s extremity 3 times during his caput coaching career, nan worst of it coming successful 2015 erstwhile nan Ravens suffered a -73 constituent differential successful what was a 5-11 campaign, Harbaugh’s worst play arsenic caput coach to date.

The Giants person a coagulated young halfway of talent for Harbaugh and his early unit to activity with. Still, nan squad besides needs further reinforcement astatine various positions, including wide receiver, cornerback, linebacker, violative line, and safety.   

Harbaugh and wide head Joe Schoen will activity to unafraid that reinforcement this offseason, aft nan 2 men beryllium down for a thorough reappraisal of nan roster.

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