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Speaker 1: is official. They worked late last night and early this morning.
Speaker 1: Agents involved hurdles finally crossed and eclipsed. Jim Harbaugh is
Speaker 1: the coach of the LA Chargers. It is easily the
Speaker 1: best current job available in the NFL because you have
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. Now. I talked about this recently. Next year,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Aaron Rodgers, Trevor Lawrence, Dak Jalen Hurts, Caleb Williams,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr potentially could all need a coach this year
Speaker 1: seven eight openings. One elite quarterback, Justin Herbert, who again
Speaker 1: as a rookie with the thirty six thirty second ranked
Speaker 1: offensive line with the Chargers. His rookie year, he broke
Speaker 1: all the touchdown records for a quarterback. So since then
Speaker 1: he has been under coached and undersupported. I was told
Speaker 1: last night a lot of people when I go out
Speaker 1: in the South Bay, Manhattan Beach, Tromosa area, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people down there that are connected to both
Speaker 1: LA professional football teams and both college teams, and there
Speaker 1: was an understanding. There was a real buzz last night
Speaker 1: that this was going to get done. Some thought it
Speaker 1: was going to be late last night, but most thought
Speaker 1: it would be in the morning. So when I went
Speaker 1: on the air today at FS one, I thought it
Speaker 1: was going to probably break during the show, and it
Speaker 1: was a few hours after. But I haven't confirmed now
Speaker 1: three sources outside outside of the Chargers operation, and it's hardball.
Speaker 1: You know. It's interesting with the Chargers. They have fifty
Speaker 1: one thousand season tickets. There's no question they don't want
Speaker 1: to sell out so far because they want because it's
Speaker 1: a warm weather city and people in their division Denver,
Speaker 1: in Kansas City and their AFC schedule, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of cold weather teams, so they like visitors coming and
Speaker 1: they can move those prices up based on how hot
Speaker 1: the Chargers are and how hot the visiting team is.
Speaker 1: So they'll never completely sell out the stadium, but they'll
Speaker 1: go to fifty five thousand season tickets. Harbaugh will sell
Speaker 1: three to four thousand season tickets here in the next week.
Speaker 1: And so the Chargers are a very healthy business. Sofar
Speaker 1: is a revenue monster. It's an absolute revenue machine, among
Speaker 1: the very best. I think it is the best in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. So where the Chargers were viewed
Speaker 1: as a team that you know, was on the thrift
Speaker 1: a little bit in San Diego. They don't need to
Speaker 1: be any more. They paid for Bosa Khalil Mack justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: and now they're paying for Jim Harbaugh and a brand
Speaker 1: new facility in El Segundo, which is not far from
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium for those who have not been to Los
Speaker 1: Angeles or don't know the kind of the geography there.
Speaker 1: I'll get to Michigan in a second. But this was
Speaker 1: the right choice. It is the best current job available,
Speaker 1: and you very rarely. I mean, when's the last candidate
Speaker 1: that eventually became a coach that was a sure thing.
Speaker 1: I mean Matt Lafleur was respected as a coordinator. There
Speaker 1: was no sure thing replacing Mike McCarthy. I mean Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy going to the Cowboys. He had a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: but that was not a sure thing. Dealing with Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones and it hasn't been a sure thing. Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 1: is about as sure thing as you get. I mean,
Speaker 1: even Belichick if he went to Atlanta tomorrow, there's no
Speaker 1: sure thing. I have a quarterback. Vrabel's a great coach,
Speaker 1: goes to Washington, what if they picked their wrong quarterback.
Speaker 1: This is a sure thing Harbaugh has worked everywhere and immediately,
Speaker 1: and this is not a terribly heavy lift. Sean Payton
Speaker 1: at Denver is a big lift. This is they have
Speaker 1: some cap issues and they also have, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the top picks, which they don't need a quarterback
Speaker 1: or a left tackle or an edge rusher, and that's
Speaker 1: what is over the top twenty picks in this draft.
Speaker 1: They could use a tight end. Brock Bowers will be
Speaker 1: available to them. They could probably move down two or
Speaker 1: three spots and still land brock Bowers and get a
Speaker 1: second or third round pick. What they need to do
Speaker 1: is hit on some draft picks beyond the first round.
Speaker 1: It's a very strong draft, so the first fifteen to
Speaker 1: eighteen picks are really good players. After that, you know,
Speaker 1: the percentages go down. But Harbaugh's ability to know personnel
Speaker 1: because of the last decade at Michigan is going to
Speaker 1: be incredibly beneficial. This is not a big lift that
Speaker 1: you've got to move off probably a Khalil Mack. You
Speaker 1: get more for Bosa, but they'll probably he's a little fragile,
Speaker 1: but they'll probably keep Bosa. I would guess move off
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack. You know, they may move off a Derwin James.
Speaker 1: Not sure what they do with Keenan Allen, Mike Williams,
Speaker 1: but what they need they have what the draft is
Speaker 1: furnishing at the very top, so they have the ability
Speaker 1: to move down several spots and accumulate more picks, and
Speaker 1: Harball will crush it with his picks. The other thing
Speaker 1: is they don't really have a situation where Dean Spanos
Speaker 1: is not a medaler. He's really not. Now. You could
Speaker 1: argue in San Diego they had a small staff, they
Speaker 1: didn't spend enough money. You can argue they were cheap.
Speaker 1: I don't view them similarly in Los Angeles and he's
Speaker 1: not a medaler. There's Spanos, kids are in the building.
Speaker 1: But again on the operational side, Tom Telesco had free
Speaker 1: rein to do what he wanted to do. Got Tom's
Speaker 1: good friend, never bad mouth the Chargers, loved his job.
Speaker 1: Wishes he wouldn't have missed on J. C. Jackson, But
Speaker 1: he furnished Harball with a lot of good players, and
Speaker 1: now they've got a really good pick. So this is
Speaker 1: really a perfect situation and a very easy lift hit
Speaker 1: on some draft picks. This is not Tennessee or Atlanta
Speaker 1: or Washington or New England or even Denver. We had
Speaker 1: a quarterback, but a massive cap hit. Herbert still a
Speaker 1: year away from being a punitive cap hit. They are
Speaker 1: about forty five million over. But again, you can circumvent
Speaker 1: some of that stuff by hitting on draft picks and
Speaker 1: moving on a couple of players. I think Harbaugh is
Speaker 1: just very unique personality. I've said this before. Both Harbaugh
Speaker 1: as you can't pigeonhole. John Harbaugh knows offense. Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 1: knows defense. When Harbaugh was in San Francisco, they had
Speaker 1: four top ten defenses with the Niners no top ten offenses.
Speaker 1: They were a mess. I don't think they'd had a
Speaker 1: winning season in eight years previous to Harbaugh, and he
Speaker 1: turned that thing around in year one Michigan. Year one
Speaker 1: Stanford I think took a couple of years, but he
Speaker 1: had some upset wins in the first year. So this
Speaker 1: is not a big lift. Boy, what a division. Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: Sean Payton, Jim Harbaugh. Those are really really good football coaches.
Speaker 1: You know, thinking about Michigan and I do think it's
Speaker 1: the right time to leave the NC Double A and
Speaker 1: sort of the ambiguous punishment it's never felt fair. It's
Speaker 1: never felt even handed. You know, there's no you know,
Speaker 1: there's a rule book by the NC double A, but
Speaker 1: it's really fuzzy. During the COVID year, I mean, people
Speaker 1: were just making stuff up. During the COVID year, Michigan
Speaker 1: pretty much just said this doesn't count. I think he
Speaker 1: goes down as a complete harbor, as a complete disruptor.
Speaker 1: He is uber to taxis in football. He has changed
Speaker 1: the game immediately. He's disrupted. Pete Carroll at USC Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll with the Seahawks. The Buckeyes were a dominant team
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten, and it took him several years
Speaker 1: to get it right and get the right quarterback. But
Speaker 1: usually where Jim goes, they don't have the quarterback right.
Speaker 1: Alex Smith was viewed as sort of a bust when
Speaker 1: he got to San Francisco. Stanford didn't have Andrew Luck.
Speaker 1: Michigan had some decent quarterbacks, but it was JJ McCarthy
Speaker 1: that was ultimately the big hit for him. He inherits
Speaker 1: his guy in Justin Herbert. So I just I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna work. I think it's gonna work fast. You know,
Speaker 1: in the AFC is loaded. But you know when you
Speaker 1: go back and look at where Harbaugh's got pack. The
Speaker 1: Pac twelve had Pete Carroll, and San Francisco had a
Speaker 1: mini Seahawks dynasty, and you know everywhere and Ohio State
Speaker 1: and college football was run by Alabama and Georgia and
Speaker 1: Ohio State and Clemson. Jim finds a way to cut
Speaker 1: through it, and usually pretty quick, Michigan will get a
Speaker 1: good football coach. The way it works in college football
Speaker 1: is if you have a legend and a legend leaves,
Speaker 1: you usually hiccup for a coach and then you find
Speaker 1: the right one after that. A lot of times what
Speaker 1: you do, and this is just so college football, is
Speaker 1: a legend leaves and a school, feeling loyalty to one
Speaker 1: of the legend's assistants, they want the continuity of the
Speaker 1: legend without the legend, so they hire a coordinator from
Speaker 1: the program, and it's a miss. He doesn't maybe have
Speaker 1: the gravitas. We've seen this at Bama in Washington. We've
Speaker 1: seen this throughout the course of college football history, as
Speaker 1: you hire the popular assistant or somebody connected to the
Speaker 1: icon who leaves. That's why I like Alabama getting Kailin
Speaker 1: de boor it's you know, no real connection. Perfect, that's
Speaker 1: the way to do it. I don't know who Michigan's
Speaker 1: going to hire. The Big Ten's never been stronger. Eighteen
Speaker 1: of those kids are leaving. Michigan's still a really healthy
Speaker 1: program and a huge brand. But you're not going to
Speaker 1: get another Jim Hardball. Alabama's not going to get another
Speaker 1: Nick Saban. They don't exist. And also you're seeing this,
Speaker 1: it's just a pain in the ass to recruit in
Speaker 1: college anymore. You saw at Villanova, Jay Wright had ten
Speaker 1: years to coach. He's like, I'm out, I don't want
Speaker 1: to deal with this transfer portal nonsense. Nick Saban could
Speaker 1: have coached, still great energy. I'm out, Let's go do television.
Speaker 1: I think Harbad looks at the transfer portal and the
Speaker 1: NIL and Jim is very pro pay the players, but
Speaker 1: right now it just doesn't have enough regulations and the
Speaker 1: players you're spending so much time. You now have two
Speaker 1: different recruiting cycles. It used to be one early February.
Speaker 1: Now there's two. You've got the transfer portal, you got
Speaker 1: the NIL. So those three elements have changed recruiting drastically
Speaker 1: over the last decade. When Jim took over, Michigan, it's
Speaker 1: just not as much fun. And as Jim gets up
Speaker 1: there in age, college football and college basketball is a
Speaker 1: young man's game. Getting up there, jennerity, you don't have,
Speaker 1: you don't have as much turnover in the pro ranks.
Speaker 1: You'll have a hot coordinator, but you know, the pension's
Speaker 1: better for assistant coaches in the NFL, and you can
Speaker 1: keep a staff together. And Jim's gonna build a really
Speaker 1: strong staff. He'll probably take a couple of defensive guys
Speaker 1: from Michigan. But this was this was in the works yesterday.
Speaker 1: Second interview with the Chargers. I was told very early
Speaker 1: in the process there was a little divide initially where
Speaker 1: a lot of the young staffers were all Harbaugh. They
Speaker 1: were totally pro horrible, and there were some older people
Speaker 1: in the organization that may have had Dean Spanos's ear
Speaker 1: a little bit that you know, we're interested in some
Speaker 1: you know, a Ben Johnson type. But the thing about
Speaker 1: the Chargers is some businesses just need a new boss.
Speaker 1: Some need a culture changer. Washington Commanders need a culture
Speaker 1: changer and a coach. The Chargers need a culture changer
Speaker 1: and a coach. I think Atlanta just needs a coach.
Speaker 1: I think they have a good owner, which McKay, really
Speaker 1: nice pieces offensively, they just need a quarterback in the
Speaker 1: right coach. I don't think they're a lousy culture. Washington
Speaker 1: and the Chargers just too many missteps. The Sdaly thing
Speaker 1: was a bit of a mess. It just it just
Speaker 1: feels like they have to kind of right this ship
Speaker 1: a strong. This LA market's crowded, man, It's it's a
Speaker 1: crowded market. People get distracted if you're not good. People
Speaker 1: have options. The beach, the mountains, Vegas is a forty
Speaker 1: minute flight away, Rams, Dodgers, USC, UCLA, Clippers, Lakers. It's distracted.
Speaker 1: You got to win, and so I think Harbaugh is
Speaker 1: gonna win his first year. I think he's gonna win
Speaker 1: a lot. I think they're gonna be a high end
Speaker 1: playoff team immediately, and I can't wait for it. It's
Speaker 1: the right choice. It's the best job. It's the only
Speaker 1: great job in this cycle. It's the only one. Washington's
Speaker 1: not bad. No quarterback, and you got to change that culture.
Speaker 1: So it's exciting. Harbaugh is such a unique I was
Speaker 1: at his first game at Mission again. They played Utah,
Speaker 1: and he and I had had a clunky interview at
Speaker 1: the other place, and we weren't in the best space.
Speaker 1: And over time, you know, Jim and I have gotten
Speaker 1: along much better. And he's whenever he's at Fox or
Speaker 1: doing something with the Big Ten, he'll give me a
Speaker 1: note and he's texted me a handful of times. His dad,
Speaker 1: I think, watches the show and sometimes Jim will say, hey,
Speaker 1: my dad said I need to text you and whatever.
Speaker 1: He's done that five or six times. But what I
Speaker 1: like about both John and Jim Harbaugh and have met
Speaker 1: Jim a couple of times. I like disruptors. I've defended
Speaker 1: Dana White for years, and people in my space who
Speaker 1: make people uncomfortable. And I think that's how we all grow.
Speaker 1: Discomfort is how we all grow. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: Sean McVay came into the NFL and said, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to plan any of my starters in the preseason
Speaker 1: and got nothing but shit. People's like, you're not going
Speaker 1: to be ready, this is not going to work. You
Speaker 1: have to hit They want eight no to start the season.
Speaker 1: And then by the following year a lot of young
Speaker 1: coaches said, yeah, Sean, Shawn's right, why am I starting
Speaker 1: my stars? In the preseason. They don't need to take
Speaker 1: a snap, and some of the veterans wanted to, but
Speaker 1: Sean McVay was a real game changer, a real disruptor.
Speaker 1: Some of the old heads still want to play their starters,
Speaker 1: but mcvay's like, what's the point. I'm not playing Andrew Whitworth.
Speaker 1: I don't even want Andrew Whitworth by September to wear
Speaker 1: pads in anything. Just just take the day off and
Speaker 1: show up on Sunday, right, like smart players, veteran players
Speaker 1: who come to the camp in shape. And I think,
Speaker 1: I think, I think that's what Harbaugh does. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny. He's an offensive coach, but I all of
Speaker 1: his teams have shared one quality, and it's not been
Speaker 1: brilliant offensive play. I mean, hell, Michigan didn't throw the
Speaker 1: ball down the field. I mean, Michigan looked like, you know,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight Michigan, you know, like they didn't throw
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. It was very much about
Speaker 1: power running and defense and you know, special teams and
Speaker 1: field position. The one thing Jim's teams have all shared
Speaker 1: is physicality. Very quickly people out West know this. But
Speaker 1: Stanford was so bad when he took them over, he
Speaker 1: were just I mean, it was like they were a
Speaker 1: Division two program. They're like an FCS. It was like
Speaker 1: two years later. They were just pushing people around. And
Speaker 1: Harbaugh has been coming out to California and stealing defensive
Speaker 1: lineman and offensive lineman for years at Michigan. And I
Speaker 1: think he's very comfortable with the West. He's coached San Francisco, Stanford,
Speaker 1: San Diego. It's fun out here. I think he likes it.
Speaker 1: He's intense. I think he's gonna fit. It's an exciting day.
Speaker 1: LA star coach, star driven, city star quarterback. Sounds like
Speaker 1: a movie script. Welcome again to the West Coast. Jim
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