While the quarterback debate will take up all the oxygen for the next three months, the Bears' decision not to take a swing at Jim Harbaugh might wind up being the biggest what-if of what should ...

Harbaugh would be the home-run hire if the Bears want to step to the plate and take that swing. Jim Harbaugh had a 44-19-1 record with the 49ers, reaching the NFC Championship Game twice and the ...

Jim Harbaugh has had great connections with his quarterbacks from colleges to the pros, and theChargers' Justin Herbert is soaking up that winning formula. Jim Harbaugh's QB connection started ...

Harbaugh played quarterback for the Bears between 1987-93 and was a QB in the NFL through the 2000 season. He got into coaching as the quarterbacks coach for the Las Vegas Raiders (then based in ...

1st-and-10: Jim Harbaugh showing Bears how it's done The Chargers are 2-0 for the first time since 2012 not because Harbaugh has taken $52.5 million-a-year quarterback Justin Herbert to the next ...

With everything the Bears have endured over the last decade, cycling through inept coach after coach, Harbaugh could be the stabilizer Chicago believes it needs to finally become a marquee team again.

Jim Harbaugh has had great connections with his quarterbacks from colleges to the pros, and theChargers' Justin Herbert is soaking up that winning formula.

(Editor’s note: This is excerpted from Mike Sando’s Pick Six of Dec. 30, 2024.) 3. For the Chicago Bears, would passing on Pete Carroll this year equate to passing on Jim Harbaugh last year?

Harbaugh's first seasons as an NFL quarterback were with Mike Ditka's Bears (1987-92). Ditka was the fire-eater whom Halas drafted in 1961. The Papa Bear gave him away, to the Eagles, in 1967.

1st-and-10: By George, let Bears hire Jim Harbaugh With a golden opportunity, Bears’ chairman George McCaskey needs to give his blessing and open the Halas Hall vault to hire a former Bear who ...

Regardless, the only tie the Bears will have to Harbaugh going forward is they drafted him in the first round in 1987 and he started for them through 1993 at quarterback.