Well, Jim Harbaugh was indeed in the mix for the Broncos job
and possibly others. Santa Ono. The president of the University
of Michigan yesterday. In a statement saying, I just got
off the phone with Coach Harbaugh and Jim shared with
me. The great news that he
is going to remain as a head coach at Michigan Wolverines.
That is fantastic news that I have communicated to our
Athletic Director award manual and is communicated to the rest
of the world to. Hello, I added the last part, we all now know,
Jim Harbaugh. I love the relationships that I have at
Michigan coach. His staff families Administration,
president Santa Ono, and especially the players and
their families. My heart is that the University of
Michigan. I once said
I once heard a wise man say
don't try to out. Happy happy go Blue.
That's kind of how Jim Harbaugh would say those things because
we all know that he is
overly caffeinated all the time. It's natural caffeine,
it's a zest for life. I love it. I respect it, but he
definitely did consider coming back to the NFL. He did it last
year,
he did it this year.
He'll do it next year,
here's the key. When the contract becomes public the new
contract that he has signed, and he surely has, we'll see
how much more they've paid him to stay put and how much it
will cost next year
for someone. Ever is looking for a coach next year, maybe
it's the Chargers
next year. Maybe Brandon Staley
gets one more year, they're not going to throw him overboard.
Now, that's their decision. I'm sure we'll discuss at some
point whether or not that's the right decision, but maybe
Harbaugh
when we'll see, we'll see from the buyout from
the compensation. Maybe he'll be back around next year for
another shot at the NFL because he's made it clear, Chris, he
has unfinished business in pro football. The Lombardi trophy,
they don't give it out to the champion of college football,
they only give Get out to the champion of professional
football. No, that's right. I mean, I think this is going to
be a yearly thing until the point where maybe Jim Harbaugh
and the Michigan Wolverines fail a little bit and then he
just isn't a hot name anymore.
But yeah, I think his hearts in the NFL
I do 100% not to say that he doesn't love Michigan and what
he's doing, but like we've talked about before some of
the past comments, he made the Ultimate Prize of ultimate
prizes or whatever. Exactly he said
was the Super Bowl,
he wanted that as a player
he was Very close as a coach, right? I mean, we've hit on all
of that. I think that's where he looks at it. Plus, hey
College, a guy like Jim Harbaugh
as much as you know, he's good at it and successful out of it.
Still a lot of those guys who have been in the NFL and had
that taste for that long, there's still parts of the NFL
that you just that
just beat college football, your coaching grown men, it's
all football all the time and in Corson college football is
Some babysitting. I got to talk to Mom and Dad and kiss their
butt and do this and
it gets tiring. So yes, he's gonna flirt with jobs and in
the NFL. And you know what I'm interested is in just and
it's almost weird how it lines up to like what you were
saying. We know there were some teams interested in all that,
but, you know, I also know through people in football that
the Chargers job was being looked at by,
you know, Harbaugh and Sean. Oh yes right. Oh yeah. They were
that was I believe from what I've learned that the top of
their list. So
you know, I guess I find it kind of like
you know suspicious that okay, we start to hear the Brandon
Stanley is good for now and that's it and he's going to be
there next year and then
that comes out and made me think like oh man Jim was
really looking at that Chargers job and that looks like it's
not happens when he wanted right and I'll stay. That was
what he wanted, right? That's one, Peyton wanted,
and so on that Harbaugh wanted. Yeah. And look, they would have
had a hell of a steel, cage, death match. If that job had
come open
and I said earlier, we'll talk about it. Some point, let me
just make the point. Now, this is the one point, the one
point. I think we may have discussed this yesterday.
I can't remember the past, really 72 hours have been a blur,
but I remember the giant pack meeting. The Vikings. That
wasn't a blur in the 72 hours. Sorry. Go ahead. You've, you've
got to factor in.
You've got to, I saw, I had an itch on my forehead. You have
to factor in
the
the Pack moving forward and I vaguely recall saying this to
you yesterday,
what does it take to recover from what happened Saturday
night? Yeah, how long does that loss, right? Linger in the air?
How long does it affect your team
next year? The year after I think the Super Bowl 49,
the Fateful run versus pass. Sure. Citizen that was made to pass
the ball and how, how Pete Carroll
he did. He did the rounds on The Today Show in the morning
shows, he was Following in his misery, trying to hit the reset
button. Anything he could to
get back to how it felt before. That moment, the 28:3 Falcons
collapse. I feel like there's still dealing with that. Six
years later, I'm telling you,
it's that, that it's not just well, the players are behind
him and we're happy with the structure and we're made
progress as a team. And we finally made it. The plowed 27.
Nothing is not going to go away. That's one of the factors
in all of this and we'll see what happens
in 2023. But but yeah Harbaugh and It may work out perfectly
for Harbaugh Chris because Payton takes a job this cycle.
If things don't work out for the Chargers next year
and they make a change
in comes Harbaugh
with, you know, and who knows what a want financially, maybe
he won't want a ridiculous amount. That's one of
the factors that that we were kicking around as it relates to
Peyton. Well, Dean Spanos isn't going to pay him,
20 million a year, 25 million a year, whatever. Well, maybe
Payton wouldn't want that. Maybe Peyton would be content
to take less if it means working with Austin Herbert and
stacking the deck for himself toward becoming the first
coach to win, Super Bowls with two different teams and maybe
make a bunch of money off that. Take over Sean. Mcveigh's
Chunky Soup gig and any other endorsements that may come as
way Beast. Aftershave
for example. Yeah, I watched all the Rocky movies last
apparently, all those moments are rallying around.
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