
By John Dame (johnsdame@comcast.net)
As a head coach in the National Football League, John Harbaugh will always have his haters. However, after this season, which was full of emotionally crushing losses and disappointments, he was STILL able to get his team ready to be menacing in the postseason.
This speaks quite a lot to his talent in the motivation department. It should be extremely hard for a team to come back from multiple regular season losses that resulted from stupid mistakes. In spite of their adversity, Harbaugh’s Ravens kept plugging away in their journey toward the playoffs.
In the CBS broadcast on Sunday, Jim Nantz continued to refer to Harbaugh’s message to the team throughout last week: that they are much better than their regular season record. The NFL is all about confidence and toughness. In each of Harbaugh’s two seasons with the Ravens franchise, his teams have shown each of those characteristics.
To say he has had his miscues this season would be a major understatement. Regardless, the purple and black are now in the divisional round of the playoffs. Harbaugh and the Ravens’ coaching staff way out-coached the greatest coach of the last decade.
He has won more playoff games in his first two years than Brian Billick did in his final seven years as Ravens head coach.
Harbaugh's a great playoff coach.