John Harbaugh

Harbaugh recounts seeing Jameis Winston working out at 5 a.m. with gospel music playing at full volume.

“the last time I saw Jameis was a couple days ago in the weight room, 5 in the morning with the gospel music blaring, full blast. It was energy, man. It was pure energy”

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Harbaugh describes putting 'relentless persistence' and 'finish everything all the time' signage in the Giants facility to set the mindset.

“I put up relentless persistence. It could have been persistent relentlessness. That was a little too long for the wall”

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Harbaugh says the Giants signed sixteen free agents while spending at a mid-level rate, which he views as good value.

“We were right in the middle, and we signed 16 guys with that. So I think the Ravens had about the same, and they signed eight guys”

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Harbaugh says the Giants are constructing an entirely new offensive system with their own terminology and schemes.

“We're building an offense out that has never been seen in the history of the National Football League. I mean, like literally because we're building the New York Giants offense”

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Harbaugh says he never seriously considered taking a year away from coaching after leaving Baltimore.

“one of the thoughts I did not have was not coaching. That was really not a thought”

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Harbaugh says the 2025 season may have been his coaching staff's best work despite the results.

“I thought, honestly, as a coaching staff, it might have been our best job this year coaching this team”

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Harbaugh says a coach does not own his job and should focus on doing it rather than keeping it.

“You don't have a job. It's not your job. You don't own it. I guess you rent it maybe is what people say. You just try to do the job, not keep the job”

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Harbaugh relays his father's advice that a coach knows it is time to quit when everything about the job is distasteful, and should then coach two more years.

“Everything about it is just something that is distasteful to you. You hate it. When you get to that point, you coach for two more years, then you'll be done”

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Harbaugh says Seattle had the best special teams in the league and that the Seahawks are the model of team he wants to build in New York.

“They built the kind of team that we would like to build here. I mean, if you watch the way they played, that's the kind of team that we would like to build in New York”

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