Harbaugh thinks fortunate, but RGIII was on his radar too

Andrew Luck and Jim Harbaugh, in their Stanford days. (AP)

Indiana -- Bay Area 49ers mind coach Jim Harbaugh knows an excellent quarterback as he sees one. Why? Begin with the truth that Harbaugh was an excellent signal-caller themself -- he performed within the National football league from 1987 through 2000, designed a Professional Bowl, led his Chicago Bears and Indiana Colts teams to playoff games, and it has his title in Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium within the Colts' Ring of Recognition. Like a player, he's possibly best referred to as guy Peyton Manning changed.


In the newbie as San Francisco's mind coach, Harbaugh reduced Alex Smith's negative performance habits and hang Cruz on the path for any very unpredicted visit to the NFC championship game. Obviously, Harbaugh is better-noted for the job he did with Andrew Luck at Stanford, but because he told the media on Thursday, also, he had his eye on Robert Griffin III in his prospecting days.

"I understand a great deal about Robert because we employed Robert from senior high school,Inch he stated. "Robert would be a 4. student, great parents, develops from a great home. He's had positive results at Baylor. You realize, past performance usually signifies future success, and he's had only past success. Which means you would predict great accomplishments later on."

Obviously, RGIII did not choose Stanford, likely to Baylor rather. "I can not wait to locate these men and discover why they did not arrived at Stanford," Harbaugh stated amusingly. "Confront Them!

"I had been really keen on Robert with the prospecting process, and that he made that call. I believe you've had an opportunity to become familiar with Robert to date and understand him a little. He makes good choices. He makes awesome choices. He's very careful in exactly what he is doing, and that i respected his decision and wanted him well."

When requested about his most well-known student, Harbaugh involved as effusive because he may be.

"You performed spades? Trump games? He's holding lots of bullets in many suits," Harbaugh stated of Luck. "She has all of the characteristics, really, psychologically, physically. He's as prepared as anybody that you are likely to find. He's great. What about that certain? She has lots of talent.

"I understand you are searching for summary sentences but ?- several things. What particularly? ?- All great. Like I stated, he's among the finest football gamers I have have you been around. Is the fact that adequate? And a much better person. Among the top-5 men I have existed. So he's only a pleasure to teach. Not likely to like playing against him. Not searching toward that."

Harbaugh seemed to be requested about being changed by Manning, the very first overall pick within the 1998 National football league draft.

"If you are destined to be changed by someone, that's an excellent someone to be changed by, is not it? I type of try taking some pride for the reason that. I believe that's the precise right word ?a amazing. That the career could be something which people discuss and remark about. As well as in a brief history of the overall game, you are speaking in regards to a quarterback whose career is going to be spoken about for 50, 100 a long time. He's been that type of player within the Nfl. Very amazing. Good word."

So that as lengthy because he had been so tolerant of quarterbacks, Harbaugh required the occasion to once more let everyone realize that yes, Alex Cruz is his guy entering the 2012 season.

"Yeah, Alex is our guy. That's well-recorded. He'd a significant season. Certainly like a coach, you are worried about several things. So when the quarterback's not signed and it is a totally free agent, leading with a lost sleep. But I am excited to become back at the office, very excited to become here and find out what type of improvement we are able to make from Year 1 to Year 2, and that i hope all of our men have the identical way."

Losing the NFC championship game towards the eventual Super Bowl champion New You are able to Titans would be a blow, but nothing might take from the amazing job Harbaugh did in the first season using the formerly directionless 49ers. That he's already back at the office and considering what his team can perform better isn't any surprise. Harbaugh isn't any-extras and all sorts of football -- he travelled coach towards the mix despite his go back to National football league success.

"Everything you are doing, you are doing the work for that second time," he stated about going from Year 1 to Year 2. "You are doing the work again. You've already experienced it once. You've experienced the rate of the overall game, the potholes, things that may come up. You are doing the work again. You have some muscle memory there. Also it only is for benefit of it, should you attack it. Which has been my experience. I've no empirical data to express at this time around. That's my own experience."

You might expect believe it or not intensity in the only guy to win the Comeback Player of the season and Coach of the season honours within the same amazing career.