New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick also recommended Harbaugh to Bisciotti by phone during the interview process. He impressed team owner Steve Bisciotti and Vice President of Player Personnel/General Manager Ozzie Newsome. He was not considered one of the favorites for the position because he had no head coaching experience at any level and had never been an offensive or defensive coordinator in the NFL. ![]() On January 19, 2008, Harbaugh was appointed the third-ever head coach of the Baltimore Ravens after Jason Garrett, the team's first choice, decided to stay with the Dallas Cowboys after receiving a raise and a promotion to assistant head coach. ![]() This fulfilled his request to head coach Reid and improved his chances of landing a head coaching job since executives at that time viewed special teams coaches as unqualified to move up to head coach. In 2007, after serving as Eagles' special-teams coach for nine years, he became their defensive-backs coach. In 2004, he was mentioned as a possible candidate to replace Gary Darnell as the head football coach at Western Michigan, where he had earned a master's degree and was an assistant football coach from 1984–1987. As such, he is in the Sid Gillman coaching tree. He was first hired in the NFL in 1998 by the Philadelphia Eagles' then head coach Ray Rhodes, and was one of four assistant coaches retained by new head coach Andy Reid in 1999. Harbaugh attended college and played varsity football as a defensive back at Miami University, where he graduated in 1984. John Harbaugh graduated from Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during which time his father Jack was an assistant under Bo Schembechler at the nearby University of Michigan. John Harbaugh was born in Toledo, Ohio, to Jackie Cipiti and Jack Harbaugh. Outside of winning Super Bowl XLVII, Harbaugh has guided the Ravens to four AFC North division championships, three AFC Championship appearances and a franchise-best 14–2 record in 2019. He is also the only head coach in NFL history to win a playoff game six of the first seven seasons of a coaching career and has the most road playoff wins by a head coach (8). Harbaugh is the only head coach in NFL history (since 1970 merger) to win a playoff game in each of his first four and five seasons. His 19 playoff game appearances are the second-most by any head coach in the NFL since 2008. In his fifteen-year tenure as Ravens head coach, Harbaugh has led the Ravens to eleven winning seasons and only two losing seasons. Harbaugh has led the Ravens to 158 wins (including playoffs) since his tenure began in 2008, the fourth-most wins in the NFL over that span, and has surpassed Brian Billick for the most wins by a head coach in Baltimore Ravens franchise history. John and the Ravens beat his brother, Jim, and the 49ers at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on February 3, 2013, by a score of 34–31. Jack Harbaugh, Jim and John's father, served 45 years as a college defensive coach, an assistant coach, and a running backs coach. Harbaugh and his younger brother, former San Francisco 49ers and current University of Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, are the first pair of brothers in NFL history to serve as head coaches. Previously, he coached the defensive backs for the Philadelphia Eagles and served as the Eagles special teams coach for nine years. John William Harbaugh ( / ˈ h ɑːr b ɔː/ born September 23, 1962) is an American football coach who is the head coach for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). Special teams coordinator & defensive backs Running backs coach & outside linebackers
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