With his own local media, Jim Harbaugh has grown terse, having covered the ground about his future often.
But while he didn’t exactly drop any clues in his conference call with Arizona reporters, he at least dropped his guard a bit.
When asked the inevitable question about how difficult it was to coach amid the swirl of reports about his future, the for-now 49ers coach said it wasn’t.
“The interesting thing is if you don’t look at the Internet and you don’t watch TV, you really do not know that it’s going on,” Harbaugh said, via Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com. “That has been exactly what I have done. Put the focus on the week of preparation, put the focus on the players and the coaches and what we are trying to get done here. It works if you really don’t pick up.
“On the way home, you don’t turn on the talk radio and you don’t look at the Internet, you can be completely unaware that anything is swirling. I walk by people and I see their faces. I know something is going on.”
There was a laugh after that part, and he was then asked what it was like to be the only American not watching TV or on the internet.
“There has to be another American beside myself,” Harbaugh said. “Don’t you think? Yeah, I bet there is. I would think there would be plenty of Americans who probably focus on another task at hand and dedicated to the mission they have and excelling and not having distraction.”
If there were, we might not be having as Merry Christmas here. So thanks Jim, for being unique.