Per Jay Glazer, multiple teams plan to contact Ravens about trading for John Harbaugh. The Denver Broncos could be in play.
The Denver Broncos will be looking for a new head coach in 2019 after firing Vance Joseph after two seasons.
There will be many candidates named as possible replacements. One possibility is Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh.
Here’s the thing. The Ravens appear to be content with keeping Harbaugh. It doesn’t look like he will be fired to start off 2019. That means that if a team, namely the Broncos, wants to take him as their next head coach, they would have to make a trade with Baltimore to make it happen.
As ProFootballTalk explains, Glazer didn’t name any teams as possible suitors for a Harbaugh trade, but with Denver looking for a new coach, it makes a lot of sense.
The Broncos would be getting a coach with a .592 regular-season win percentage at 100-69, a 10-5 playoff record (.667%) and an overall record of 110-74 (.598%).
Harbaugh also has one Super Bowl victory on his résumé. He led the Ravens to a Super Bowl win over the San Francisco 49ers in February of 2013, after the 2012 regular season.
He has had the pleasure of coaching multiple Hall of Famers, including Ray Lewis and Jonathan Ogden. The Ravens have sent 21 players to the Pro Bowl since Harbaugh became the coach back in 2008.
A trade for head coaches is not at all common, but it is not impossible.
A couple of well-known head coaches have been traded in the past, including:
Jon Gruden (Raiders to Buccaneers — two 1st-round picks and two 2nd-round picks, as well as $8 million).
Bill Parcells (Patriots to Jets—1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th-round picks).
Bill Belichick (Patriots to Jets—1st, 4th, and 7th round picks).
Harbaugh likely won’t draw that much compensation. But as a Super Bowl-winning head coach, and with the success he has had during his tenure with the Ravens, it is not a big surprise that a team is willing to trade something for him.
With the Broncos posting back-to-back losing seasons for the first time since 1972, making a move as bold as trading for a head coach may just be necessary.