We heard last week that one unknown team was planning to make a run at Jim Harbaugh at the end of the season. Well, Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com reports that the mystery team is the New York Jets.
The organization is planning to offer the Michigan head coach a lucrative contract. As Florio points out, that offer would be in excess of the $7MM salary that Harbaugh is currently earning at Michigan. The organization started planning their pursuit a month ago, and the front office is hoping they’ll be able to land an interview. For what it’s worth, Harbaugh previously said that he doesn’t have any plans to leave his current gig at Michigan.
“I’m not going anywhere. I’m staying at Michigan,” Harbaugh said earlier this month. “We have big plans here, and there’s a lot we want to accomplish.”
Harbaugh had a memorable four-year run with the 49ers, where he compiled a 44-19-1 record. San Francisco made the playoffs three times during his tenure, and they won the NFC in 2012. The 55-year-old was hired by Michigan in 2015, and he’s proceeded to lead his team to a 38-13 record over the past four years. The head coach has continued to reiterate that he has no intention to leave Ann Arbor.
While the Jets are expected to move on from head coach Todd Bowles, it’s uncertain if they’re going to retain general manager Mike Maccagnan. While Maccagnan may be the one campaigning for a Harbaugh hire, Florio points out that the coach may want full roster control if he were to take the Jets gig.
Harbaugh on the Jets would only work if Harbaugh has 100% total control. Then, and only then, may the Jets be scary
Some perspective. Niners were a doormat for a decade before his arrival with a loaded roster. He did make Alex Smith better then showed poor judgement in letting him go for Kap.
He lost a conference championship game on his home field to a 9-7 Giants team.
He lost the Super Bowl to a less talented Ravens team.
He gets his ass kicked by OSU every year.
He is a pretty immature dude. NY media would eat him for breakfast.
He is not the right fit but it’s the Jets so they have to try to screw it up.
Showed poor judgement in letting Alex Smith go for Kap? Was Kap not the QB when they went to the Superbowl?
Secondly, that Ravens team had a pretty great defense and Flacco had an amazing playoff run where he threw no INTs…
Him getting is “ass kicked by OSU every year” had nothing to do with what type of coach he is. It’s not like of he came to the Jets we’d expect him to beat the Pats every time they play each other.
Be realistic, he’s be a significant upgrade over Todd Bowles.
Meh. Gotta agree with mumsy. If OSU beat downs weren’t his fault as a coach, then what? Talent deficit? So how would that jets roster look against the NFL? And his media persona is super childish, really does seem like a bad fit for NYC. I don’t think he is a bad coach, but he is overrated and shelf life is limited. I see him as a better candidate to kick a team in the butt and go on a run for a few years. Building a team not so much
SF was terrible before Harbaugh.
44-19 in the NFL
Lost in Super Bowl
Lost in NFC championship.
How do you explain that?
The year the 49ers lost the super bowl Alex Smith was the QB, he got injured, kaep took over. When Smith was healthy kaep stayed in. Despite Smith having a career year, and kaep having only 1 ability, his legs. It irked San Francisco fans everywhere and there was a huge kaep v Smith debate for months.
If he leaves, are Michigan signees free to rescind their commitment and reopen their recruitment?
They should be!
I believe so
Not if they signed an LOI
This would be Rex Ryan all over again. Need a more offensive mind with Darnold
Jim Harbaugh is an offensive coach?
Not if you’ve watched any UofM game since he’s been there. He’s made Lloyd Carr’s playbook even more boring.
Ryan was the defensive coordinator for the Ravens before he was head coach of the Jets.
I think that’s his point when he states they need a more offensive coach…. Harbaugh ain’t it.
Harbaugh has never coached defense in his entire life. Why would he start now?
I don’t like Harbaugh at all, but how is that anything like Rex Ryan? Harbaugh’s background is literally in grooming quarterbacks. He couldn’t be anything further from Rex Ryan.
Harboughs background is in special teams just like his brother not grooming quarterbacks……. and you could argue that him and Rex Ryan have very similar personalities so how would they be the furthest thing from each other????
“Harboughs background is in special teams just like his brother not grooming quarterbacks”? I don’t know who you’re thinking of, but Jim Harbaugh has never coached special teams and the only playing experience he has on special teams would be if he was a holder at some point (as was common for QB’s in college back then). His coaching resume is as follows:
1994 – 2001 Western Kentucky University – Offensive Consultant
2002 – 2003 Oakland Raiders – Quarterbacks Coach
2004 – 2006 University of San Diego – Head Coach
2007 – 2010 Stanford University – Head Coach
2011 – 2014 – San Francisco 49ers – Head Coach
2015 – Present – University of Michigan – Head Coach
Absolutely no special teams coaching, but he was a QB coach.
I was referring to his brother John who was strictly a ST coach before coaching ravens. My bad I confused there pasts. Still don’t believe JIM is the right guy to groom Darnold
Guaranteed it will never happen
If the Jets really want him and they should really want him it’s probably gonna take around 10M per year and final say on football decisions.
The Jets stink so It only makes sense they would chase a guy who has a fondness for the Honey Badger.
The Jets would have to start with Gruden money to Harbaugh hooked.
Jim Harbaugh 44-19 in the NFL.
Super Bowl appearance
Loss in NFC Championship
Please name 5-10 coaches with better Resume
Just Bill! Harbaugh would automatically be second best coach in the NFL. Every team should make a run at home (besides the Pats)
Uh lifelong 49er fan and bay area resident here, Harbaugh is the guy who inherited one of the best defenses ever, took a team that took a decade to build and destroyed it in 4 years. He destroyed the 49ers undefeated super bowl legacy. He benched Smith for a guy nobody here wanted to see play, I for one remember the outrage at an injured Smith losing his job. He was called a “players coach” so many times I wanted to barf. Let him stay in Michigan.