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790 The Ticket Confirms Harbaugh is a DONE DEAL.. Do you guys trust LeBatard/Stugotz?

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  1. Zach13

    Zach13 Season Ticket Holder

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    We now know the answer as to whether we can trust these clowns
     
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  2. Section126

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    That is not fair Zach13. Not at all. They had it RIGHT. period.
     
  3. Zach13

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    How did they have it right?

    They reported that Harbaugh was a done deal.

    Is he?
     
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  4. SICK

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    love ya desides, but we got duped. this sucks.
     
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  5. NyPhinfan

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    From all accounts...alot and I mean ALOT of people reported this as a done deal. People with very good sources who woke up this morning with egg on their faces and not very happy about it. Something happened...who knows? will we ever get the straight story? doubt it. Too many people were ADAMANT that this was in the books for it to be so far off. Sounds like alot of hand shake deals were backed off from....and alot of jumping to conclusions and trying to be the "first" one to report it was rampant
     
  6. Zach13

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    I only heard a few people adamant about it.

    I never heard Schefter, Mort, or La Canfora report it as a done deal.

    When Mort told 790 that it was "50/50" on the air they backed off right away.
     
  7. MarinePhinFan

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    They never reported that it was a done deal. I listened to the show again on podcast. They stated the entire time that a source of their's, who is rarely wrong, said that Harbaugh had agreed to a deal. After that they continued to use words like "apparently", "supposedly" and the such. Their source, and all the other sources were wrong.

    I'm assuming that Harbaugh told someone that he would take the job, Luck decided not to declare, and Harbaugh changed his mind. I think Harbaugh stays at Stanford.
     
  8. Section126

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    The story was that jh told his staff that he was headed to fins.

    That story is 100% accurate. Something happened to nix the deal
     
  9. Dorfdad

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    VONTAE WAS RIGHT! Now we build a dynasty!
     
  10. Samphin

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    Section, how do you know that that report is accurate? I think LeBatard got it wrong. Nobody's perfect. Which is fine, everyone got it wrong...especially the Dolphins.
     
  11. Section126

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    I have personal knowledge
     
  12. MarinePhinFan

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    My bet is Luck staying got Harbaugh to stay...
     
  13. NyPhinfan

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    Thats facsinating stuff. wonder what it could have been? According to Shefter it could not have been money....so family? change of heart?
     
  14. Dorfdad

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    and the reason I am rooting against them next year. I hope they fail miserably.. It's called Karma.. You should have struck while you were hot.
     
  15. Section126

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    I don,t have A idea.

    My theory is that the fins pulled their offer
     
  16. Samphin

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    Its a crock. LeBatard jumped the gun on faulty information and is now trying to spin it to maintain some sort of insider credibility. He blew it, pure and simple. Everyone blew it. From reports of Sparano being fired, to Harbaugh's contract to when and where they met. It is all nonsense. Ross put the full court press on and got played. Simple as that. He tried to replace Sparano with someone he thought was better for the franchise and couldn't get his man so he defaulted to the incumbant,

    Just admit to it and go on. No harm in that.

    I bet LeBatard's source either lied outright (which isn't uncommon from sources) which means LeBatard is off the hook (except that he didn't have actual confirmation, but hardly anyone does these days). or the source was mistaken. Perhaps Will Smith's "Going to Miami," song was on in Harbaugh office radio and people ran with it. Whi kniows? We never will.
     
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  17. Ronnie Bass

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    And it looks like we can thank Peyton Manning for that, PFT is reporting he advised Luck to stay another year at Stanford.
     
  18. RunRickyRun

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    Luck wouldn't have it, and as luck would have it---we wont.
     
  19. Stringer Bell

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    If I had to guess I would say Harbaugh just lied and started telling people hes coming to Miami just to apply some pressure to Stanford.
     
  20. Section126

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    No. the story was accurate. I am telling you that I know for a fact that it was.
     
  21. MarinePhinFan

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    Not true in the least. Listen to the podcast. Not ONCE did lebatard say this was a "done deal".
     
  22. Fin-Omenal

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    Thee...Ohio State University

    :pointlol:
     
  23. ToddsPhins

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    I bet all the bad press that Harbaugh was getting from this helped scare him away.
     
  24. MarinePhinFan

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  25. Rocky Raccoon

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    Why did we pull the offer?

    If it was fear of Harbaugh not liking it in Miami, then I'm glad they pulled their offer. We don't need another Saban debacle.
     
  26. Fin-Omenal

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    He likely really doesnt like our situation, couple that with Luck returning to school and money starts to NOT be the answer.

    Whatever, we didnt get Harbaugh doesnt matter anymore, what matters is we retained a guy whose team has openly criticized him and quit on him somewhere in the Lions game....

    A reliable source I know just told me THIS TEAM WILL SUCK NEXT YEAR.
     
  27. Zach13

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    Actually now Schefter is reporting that the Dolphins never made an offer.

    So we are to believe that Harbaugh told everyone that he was going to Miami before he ever received an offer?
     
  28. Coral Reefer

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    Agreed.

    Leretard has always been an arsehat.
    One redeaming thing out of this is that he gets exposed a little for basically rolling the dice being the first one to say "Its a done deal!" to look like he's master in his field. He would have loved to spend the next year telling everyone he's the one that broke the Harbaugh hriring.

    Back to Harbaugh I still fully believe this is all about Luck returning.
    He's got a chance to make a run at a Natl. Championship which would only increase the Paul Bunyan'esque aura he's built about himself.

    The NFL and all it's money will still be waiting for him next year.
    Hell the Phins may very well be bidding for him again next year as well.

    Harbaugh could go back with Luck, win a National title and end up with the same job he interviewed for this year.
     
  29. Section126

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    For the last time. What was reported by SEVERAL outlets, not only LeBatard, is that JIM HARBAUGH told his staff that he was going to be the next MIAMI DOLPHINS HEAD COACH.

    NOBODY said "done deal".

    I can vouch for the veracity of what LeBatard and many others reported. That is it.

    The guy's record is impecable in reporting these stories and furthermore, MY RECORD is impeccable reporting stories based on inside information...and I am TELLING YOU that what he reported is/was 100% accurate.
     
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  30. Zach13

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    I have a hard time believing that Harbaugh told his staff he was going to Miami without ever having received an offer from Miami.

    I do not doubt that you are relaying what you have heard but unless you are part of Harbaughs staff then you do not have first-hand knowledge.
     
  31. Section126

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    believe whatever you all want to believe
     
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  32. Da 'Fins

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    I listened to Harbaugh and typed what he said. First, he did say that Harbaugh told someone that he was going to be the next coach of the Dolphins. His main source, however - whom he said has never been wrong - said specifically, and I am quoting, "It's all but a done deal" - nothing more; nothing less! The implication was also that only the interviewing of the minority coach (or paying a fine) and the firing of Sparano stood in the way; but other wise there was an agreement. In other words, there were just the formalities to get through. That's as good as reporting that Harbaugh was going to be the next Dolphins coach. Further, he asked the source, "can I go on the air with that and use those words?" The source told him to go with it.

    Also, LeBatard was talking extensively about how "lonely" (His word) he felt as the only one who reported this - the same way he felt when he reported two days beforehand that LeBron was going to be going to Miami. He knew yesterday that he was a) reporting Harbaugh to the Dolphins; and b) that he was taking a big risk, going out on a limb, in doing so.

    To say anything other than that - if LeBatard did back off that today - is disingenuous and a lie. In fact DL was joking about the fact that Ross would blow off the league's minority interview policy and fly over NYC and drop the money (as well as his toilet waste) on their way back from Cal.

    Those are the absolute facts and anything else - it's bogus.
     
  33. Section126

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    Nobody said any different, anything but a done deal is the opposite of a done deal
     
  34. padre31

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    Funny thing is, if anyone bothers to listen to the Mort Christenson appearance on 790 the host point blank told him that Lebatard was reporting that Harbaugh had signed, and he said the information came from an email when Mort asked where Lebatard had heard that information.

    That is when Mort said "it is 50-50" on whether Harbaugh would be the Dolphins HC.
     
  35. Section126

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    Not true.

    LeBatard was tipped off via email and he then confirmed it with his most reliable source, top the point where both sources had the SAME details.

    The entire story consisted of Jim Harbaugh telling his staff that he had decided to accept the Dolphins job. and NOTHING MORE.

    MORT was the one that said that if he had to GUESS...he said GUESS, he would say 50/50 because Harbaugh had strong ties to the bay area.
     
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  36. padre31

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    Eh, take it up with whomever was interviewing Mort C, that is what was said Lebatard was reporting that...
     
  37. Section126

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    Listen to the start of the podcast.

    it is all there in audio. thank god for that.
     
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  38. Section126

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    That was stugotz. he was joking when he said that LeBatard just took a random email and reported it. Get real. PLEASE.

    listen to the start of the podcast.

    He got tipped off via email early on the day and he then spoke to his most solid source that confirmed everything right down to the finest detail. That is when he went with it.
     
  39. MarinePhinFan

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    Correct! Not ONCE did lebatard CONFIRM anything.
     
  40. padre31

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    And it did not happen, Lebatard was offbase it happens he did report that it had happened though, that is when Mort C said..where did that information come from.

    Which is why I thought it was a done deal.
     

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