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Mike Pettine: 'Jim Harbaugh rumours have no impact'

Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine says that reports the club tried to snag Jim Harbaugh as head coach before him have "no impact" on him.

Mike Pettine has revealed that reports that Jim Harbaugh was approached before him to take the head coaching job at the Cleveland Browns doesn't bother him.

The 47-year-old was appointed as the Browns' head coach earlier in February, after the club searched for a successor to the fired Rob Chudzinski for over a month.

A report suggested that the Browns were ready to send multiple Draft picks to the San Francisco 49ers to procure Harbaugh, something which the club have strongly denied.

Pettine told reporters: "[It] has no impact on my job moving forward. I shot the messenger a little. I used a word proceeded by the word flying. And I don't give a rat's."

Pettine is the Browns' third head coach in as many seasons.

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Jim Harbaugh head coach of the San Francisco 49ers enters the practice field during the San Francisco 49ers rookie minicamp at their training facility on May 10, 2013
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