The Atlanta Falcons were right in the thick of the John Harbaugh sweepstakes until they weren't. Late last night, the Super Bowl-winning head coach was officially hired as the next head coach of the New York Giants before Arthur Blank and Matt Ryan even had a chance to get him inside the team facility.
The Falcons' odds of landing Harbaugh were always slim, but several conflicting reports led fans to believe they had a better shot of pulling off the upset than they actually did. The Giants were always the frontrunners, but I don't think anyone saw them as the landslide favorites they turned out to be.