Ravens Insider: READERS RESPOND: Ravens fans would be OK with hiring first-time head coach

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We asked readers if previous head coaching experience should matter in the Ravens’ search to replace John Harbaugh.

Several of the team’s reported candidates have never been a head coach, including Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, Dolphins defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver and Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak. Other candidates, like former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, have led NFL franchises.

Here are the results from our online poll:

• No — 57.3% (138 votes)
• Yes — 42.7% (103 votes)

Here’s what some fans have said about Baltimore’s search for a new coach (answers have been edited for clarity and grammar):

Hire Sean McDermott! — Will Shoken

Head coaching experience should definitely matter when you have a team that is ready to win now! Just like Harbaugh should have never given somebody with no defensive coordinator experience the keys to this defense when Mike MacDonald left! — Kendric Armstrong

Well, they better not come here either because we don’t have a quarterback. — Donny King

No, because they were all terminated at some point. — Wayne Frazier Sr.

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