Good morning, New York Giants fans! Welcome to the John Harbaugh Era.
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Giants inquired about Mike Tomline before hiring John Harbaugh | NFL Trade Rumors
Per Tom Pelissero, the Giants’ ownership reache out to former Steelers HC Mike Tomlin before hiring John harbaugh.
Giants have no idea what is about to hit them with John Harbaugh ready to set new standard | New York Post
Harbaugh brings plenty to the table. It is now up to the Giants to do everything possible to make sure he has everything he needs. Roster improvements. Upgrades to whatever departments he deems in need of improving or enhancing. If he wants his office repainted, get some Benjamin Moore color samples and start brushing.
The front office, the locker room, the training room, the media room — it all is under John Harbaugh’s authority, to some extent. The Giants wooed him and pursued him with unprecedented zeal and guaranteed him $100 million, give or take a few bucks, to make them right. Getting there will take adjustments that everyone in the facility will have to buy into, or else.
Rex Ryan believes John Harbaugh-led Giants are ‘absolutely’ a playoff team: ‘So talented’ | New York Post
“This team right here is so talented,” Ryan said on ESPN’s “Postseason NFL Countdown” Saturday.
“If you go in to build an organization, you want to have a franchise-type quarterback [Jaxson Dart]. We’ll see. I think they might have one right there. You want a franchise left tackle [Andrew Thomas] to protect that quarterback. Check that box. You want a franchise No. 1 receiver [Malik Nabers]. You can check that box.
“And by the way, you’ve got five guys who can absolutely rush the passer,” Ryan added, in reference to Giants defenders Darius Alexander, Brian Burns, Dexter Lawrence and Kayvon Thibodeaux. “You put the right guy in that situation, they may go to No. 1 in the league in defense.
“So, to me, I think absolutely, this is a playoff team.”
Ranking 2025 NFL rookie classes: Teams with most production | ESPN
The Giants ranked No. 3.
The Giants’ rookie class was about quality rather than quantity. First-round quarterback Jaxson Dart led all rookies in total points and ranked 18th with a 57.8 QBR, thanks partly to the value of his run plays. No. 3 pick Abdul Carter had only four sacks, but his 56 pressures led all rookie edge rushers. Third-round defensive tackle Darius Alexander had 3.5 sacks as a rotational lineman. And fourth-round running back Cam Skattebo energized the team in five starts, with 410 rushing yards, 207 receiving yards and seven touchdowns before an ankle injury ended his season.
John Harbaugh Explains Why He’s Excited to Coach the Giants | Sports Illustrated
“I would say [ownership played] a very big role—that’s probably what got it started,” Harbaugh said. “Because you’re at the owners meetings over the years, you get to know John Mara especially. Through the competition committee conversations we’d always have at the combine or the owners meetings, just from a football standpoint, we’d dig deep on all that stuff, and he’s always just a great guy to work with—a classy, wonderful, honest good-natured person. I always felt like we hit it off that way over the years. So I was excited for that, because I had a good feeling about it.
“And then getting to know Chris, spending time with Chris, I’d never really gotten to know Chris before. He was great. He came over to my house. We sat down. He took me through how the organization is built, how the ownership works. And then visiting with and getting to know Steve [Tisch], I’d never met Steve before. What a wonderful guy. He was so much fun to be around. So that was kind of the start of the basis of it. That was the most intriguing thing right out of the gates, the family nature of the ownership.”
The Big Picture: How John Harbaugh Brought Credibility and Hope to Giants Overnight | FOX Sports
To be honest, it’s hard to think of a more significant moment in Giants history than the moment when John Harbaugh, a Super Bowl-winning coach, clearly the prize of this year’s carousel, made the decision to accept the generous offer that the Giants were so desperate to give him. As the new head coach of the New York Giants — the news is expected to become official sometime on Thursday — he brings instant credibility. He carries a feeling of hope.
There is no one in the Giants organization, and probably no Giants fan anywhere, who doesn’t believe this morning that better days — much, much better days — are now ahead.
And sure, they might have been in good hands with Kevin Stefanski too, or Mike McCarthy or some hotshot coordinator who is staring at a long and storied career. But none of them — none — would have come close to creating the buzz and excitement that Harbaugh did.
Not a single other coach would have brought this kind of seismic change.
One Pending Unrestricted Free-agent the NY Giants Absolutely Must Re-sign | Sports Illustrated
SI says the Giants must re-sign Jermaine Eluemunor.
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