Now that the “Mr. excitement” (Pete Carroll) era is
over. Can rookie Hawks’ Head Coach Mike Macdonald return them to the Promised
land? (The Tomaso Collection)
But does it really matter What Time it Is? Or that
the Harbaugh’s and Mike Macdonald know each other?
Naturally, after finishing my two part No
Fenders riveting Football prose. I learned that Jimmy HarBooBooBaugh’ (Harbaugh) left Michigan underneath a cloud
of NCAA Violations, a la Pete Carroll going from USC to the Seattle Seahawks over
a decade ago, Wayback’ in 2010.
As Harbaugh leave the Wolverines after nine
years in Michigan, and at age 60, surely is in the zenith of His Head Coaching
career, Righto?
Whilst speaking of those Seahawks. Seattle’s
first pre-season game August 10th just so happened to feature the Hawks
traveling to SoFi Stadium to play the Los Angeles Chargers. Which Seattle
decisively won 16-3, albeit it was just pre-season competition…
Yet interestingly, the game featured Jay Harbaugh,
son of Jim as Seattle’s new Special Teams coach, under rookie Seahawks Head
Coach Mike Macdonald’s tenure.
As Jay spent nine years With
Poppa Bear’ Jim at Michigan, before they both left the Wolverines program. With
Jim now being the new Head Coach of the Los Angeles Chargers.
Reportedly the last time this father-son duo
competed against each other was when Dad Jim was the Head Coach of the San
Francisco 49ers against His brother John’s Baltimore Ravens in Super bowl XLVII.
As Jay was just beginning His coaching career under His uncle John’s tutelage
as a Offensive Quality Control assistant. As the Ravens defeated the 49ers 34-31,
in a game which featured a 34 minutes “impromptu”
Blackout, Err power outage in the Mercedes-Benz
Superdome in New Orleans on February 1, 2013 while the Ravens were leading
handidly.
And in another episode of “Six Degrees of
Seperation”. Macdonald, who at age 37 is reportedly the current youngest NFL
Head Coach. Spent considerable time with the Baltimore Ravens between 2014-20.
Beginning as a Defensive Quality Control Assistant. Then as a Coaching intern,
Defensive assistant and Defensive Backs coach.
For 2021, Macdonald became wait for it,
Tuh-Duh! Michigan’s Defensive Coordinator under Jim Harbaugh.
Before
returning to the Ravens as it’s Defensive Coordinator between 2022-23 prior to
becoming Seattle’s Head Coach…
And that’s way, mucho more than I wanted to know about Football! Since I didn’t even know that Jim Harbaugh had been hired by the Chargers Wayback’ on January 24th until hearing about Harbaugh’s NCAA recruiting rules violation just days before the NFL pre-season began via the Indianapolis Star’s Sports section, Hut-Hut Omaha!
