Ravens, Harbaugh Agree To 3-Year Extension
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The Baltimore Ravens have signed head coach John Harbaugh to a three-year contract extension, keeping him in purple and black through the 2025 season, the team announced.
The 59-year-old inked a four-year extension in 2019 that is set to expire after the upcoming season. According an earlier report from ESPN, talks on a new contract started back in January.
"(I had) no interest in having him go lame duck on me here. It's not fair to him," owner Steve Bisciotti told reporters.
Heading into his 15th year as head coach of the Ravens, Harbaugh has a record of 137-88 and has reached the playoffs nine times, and his teams have won 10 or more games eight times.
Bisciotti, who's owned the team since 2004, feels like he's seen Harbaugh evolve as a coach.
"I think John's grown and grown and grown so it's kind of interesting. I don't feel like I'm just signing up the same guy," he said. "I think that's really a compliment to him.
The 2021 season was only Harbaugh's second with a losing record and the first since 2015, when the Ravens went 5-11. After jumping out to an 8-3 start last season, the Ravens, beset by injuries to key players and inconsistent play, lost the final six games of the season. But in five of those games, they lost by three points or fewer.
"I really liked the way that they stuck together (last year)," Bisciotti said. "There wasn't any infighting. They kept believing."
In 2012, Harbaugh guided the Ravens to victory in Super Bowl XLVII, only the second championship in franchise history.
He won AP Coach of the Year honors in 2019 after an NFL-best 14-2 campaign.
