Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald knows John Harbaugh well. Macdonald worked for the recently fired Baltimore Ravens coach for eight seasons, beginning as an intern in 2014, and eventually becoming the Ravens' defensive coordinator in 2022 and 2023.
It is safe to say that Seattle's coach owes a lot of what he knows about the NFL to the former Baltimore coach. But after 18 seasons as its head coach, the Ravens decided the time had come to let Harbaugh go.
This was the case even though he had led the organization to the playoffs 12 times, and as recently as 2024.