During most NFL head coaching searches, interviews are not necessarily made public by the team and are instead conducted largely outside of the public eye. But that was certainly not the case for the Los Angeles Chargers’ most recent interview with Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh.
On Monday afternoon, the Los Angeles Chargers official account announced that the team had brought in Jim Harbaugh for an interview, confirming news reports from various outlets and making it clear that they have targeted him for their next head coach.
“we’ve completed an interview with Jim Harbaugh for head coach,” the Los Angeles Chargers official account said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
we’ve completed an interview with Jim Harbaugh for head coach
→ https://t.co/1Dza5nXsik pic.twitter.com/xdkMVhlepS
— Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) January 15, 2024
Obviously, this is a pretty significant announcement, especially considering teams do not typically announce head coach interviews like this, and the NFL world had a lot to say about it on social media as a result.
Source?!?!? https://t.co/9d7XiUFUiB
— Matt Brown (@MattBrownEP) January 15, 2024
It happened. It happened.
Now…we ride out 82 billion source tweets saying 83 billion different things https://t.co/FRUdOOHQxS
— Tyler Schoon (@tylerjschoon) January 15, 2024
There’s confirmation of the big 🐠 https://t.co/eBvKnsmObP
— Guilty As Charged Podcast (@GACPodcast17) January 15, 2024
I feel like we rarely see NFL teams announce their interviews with a college head coach https://t.co/e9LzE7JAiB
— Antonio Morales (@AntonioCMorales) January 15, 2024
Do NFL teams usually post stuff like this? https://t.co/raoVCKUNSl
— JJ 〽️ (@JJWolverines) January 15, 2024
Aren’t things like that typically private? 😂 https://t.co/qWqNm7XArg
— Skippy Cox (@Skippy15275) January 15, 2024
they’re dropping interview graphics now?? https://t.co/WerJpgFzTK
— chris (@chriswalz__) January 15, 2024
Obviously, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the team will ultimately hire Harbaugh, but the very fact that they were willing to announce the move on social media – and share a flattering article along with the post – seems to indicate that he is a very real candidate for the job.
