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His father, Jack Harbaugh, a high school and college football lifer, effectively told his older son he’d be nuts to sign with anyone other than the Giants. John agreed with his dad, and yet he needed to ensure that he could change the infrastructure of the franchise enough to make it a consistent winner like the one he helped build in Baltimore.
This wasn’t about Schoen; the coach definitely feels he can work with the GM. Harbaugh wanted the ability to impact the entire operation, from security to training to analytics to media relations to staff size to assistant salaries to relocation expenses to you name it. And yes, in the unlikely event there’s a stalemate on draft day between Harbaugh and Schoen, there’s no longer any question who will prevail.
The Giants have been in the Mara family for more than 100 years, and it was never going to be easy to merge with the modern-day Harbaugh machine. This wasn’t a hostile takeover, or even a non-hostile takeover. This was a long-overdue reboot for a franchise that hasn’t done any meaningful winning since its fourth Super Bowl victory 14 years ago.
You cannot fault John Harbaugh’s record with the Baltimore Ravens. He won a lot of games. He won a Super Bowl. He won the respect of coaches and general managers around the NFL.
Most people agree that the New York Giants made what appears to be the only correct hire for the limping franchise.
It’s easy to say the Giants can be next year’s New England Patriots or Chicago Bears with a new coach in Year 1, but they have a lot of work to do before getting to that point in terms of roster building.
That might be Harbaugh’s biggest initial challenge — building a roster to his desire with the right people in the room. But make no mistake, the expectations long term are to get back into being Super Bowl contenders. The Giants and Harbaugh think they have the core and organizational structure to make that happen, and possibly make him the...
