Coach John Harbaugh is known around the NFL as a strict disciplinarian that gets the most out of his team through difficult practices and sometimes a lack of a personality. Harbs has never cared what people think mostly because he took a rookie quarterback to the AFC championship in his first year as the Ravens head coach and has returned to the playoffs in his next two years.
In 2011, Harbaugh seems to have softened up a bit. After a sloppy 34-17 win over the New York Jets, Harbaugh gave the Ravens the week off during their bye. It was a move that Ravens linebacker Jarrett Johnson said “shocked” him. Even after a win Harbaugh has been known to keep the team around to work on areas they need improving on. Instead he let Bryant McKinnie take off to South Beach for the week which has even me a little worried. Keep him off the boats.
In September, the Ravens debuted their new rally chant, the guitar solo from The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army.” The once personality-less Harbaugh was a part of a fun movement for Ravens fans in transitioning the famous soccer chant to M&T Bank Stadium. “We’re here to have a great time, man. So, if we get some good music and we get some good football and the fans get into it, the players and coaches love that,” Harbaugh told The Sun. “I’m inviting the fans to do that, so that’s what it was all about. They were pretty willing; we have great fans. It was awesome.”
Days off and interactions with fans… Who is this guy? It’s like I don’t even know him.
Whether someone upstairs got in Harbs’ ear or he decided it on his own, I think we all can agree that a more loose, less Bill Belichick-like John Harbaugh is better for everyone.
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I’ve gone through Sadler’s 7 step program as a reformed “Can’t Stand Harbaugh-aholic” and can tell you someone got in his ear. Remember when he came out with the “I’m not talking about injuries, so don’t ask” mantra in preseason? Now all of the sudden he can’t shut up about the injuries, how long someone will be out, you name it. I think the Ravens’ PR said to him, “look you’ve been to the playoffs 3 straight years, yet half of the people in this town can’t stand you. Let’s change this…” He still appears stiff as a board in post game and his jokes are not well timed, but he’s trying. I just think he’s not a very likeable guy. He’s like Al Gore. The more he tries, the bigger the hole he digs. But, again in Sadler’s program I’ve learned I don’t necessarily have to like him, but not to root against him. How am I doing Sadler?
Here we go! MGW’s starting his next “FLIP-FLOP”… The man “FLIP-FLOPS” more than a pancake does…
I compared the guy to Al Gore. I said he wasn’t likable. I said his jokes are not well timed. I said half the town can’t stand him. Where have I flip flopped? You have said yourself that you don’t root against the Ravens, despite not liking Harbaugh. The only thing I said was “I’ve learned I don’t have to like him, but not root against him” which would be rooting against the Ravens. Please explain where I flip flopped?
Read my comments MGW… Your getting like that idiot Spy… I said “Starting”… The key word in my comment was “Starting”… I didn’t say you “Already” flip-flopped… But I know when you start to…
And BTW, I used that Tabasco Sauce on my car windows and it does clean them and act just like “Rain-X”… Actually better as no water stays on the glass and it is clear as anything. Thanks for the tip.
And you probably lick your windshield when you get hungry………what a loser you are…………
@SPY – Now why would you go bust on one of the BSR’s “Gang of 10”? Ravens2488 has alot of “Brothers” on the BSR that watch his back like he watches theirs. I’m one of them.
Since you’ve been gone awhile “Sybil” where did you go? Jet-setting to “Nam” again? Still looking for one of those “Mail-Order Brides” that give you the friendly gestures and flirty aggressive body language that are entirely rooted in the fact that if she played her cards right, you would conceivably offer her a much better life in the States?
One other thing “Sybil”, you better get those lip blasters looked at cause they will spread faster then pinkeye in a kindergarten class…