Baltimore Ravens deny Eric DeCosta looking to explore possibility of moving elsewhere – NFL News
Baltimore Ravens director Eric DeCosta has denied reports hinting at that he was seeking to depart the Ravens to pursue prospects for other positions at other teams in the National Football League (NFL), and his assurance of remaining loyal to the side received
a backing from his team management including his employer, the Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti.
Reports emerged earlier in the week indicated that DeCosta was a potential candidate for many sides in search for new personnel in their management departments, respectively.
The reports claimed that he was interested in exploring the possibility of moving in any new role elsewhere.
He was specifically hinted to be at the target list of the Indianapolis Colts for a general manager (GM) slot.
Colts owner Jim Irsay fired his GM Bill Polian following their poor performance in the NFL season 2011 and was reported to have shown contentions for interviewing DeCosta among other teams’ officials to fill the vacant post.
The Ravens management, while speaking on the rumours for the first time on Friday, January 06, 2012, categorically refuted the reports that Eric had been nurturing such an ambition as to consider any other side for any of the available positions, including
the Colts’ GM post, over his current team, the Ravens.
"Since this franchise started in 1996, we've established a strong history of retaining our most important executives, players, coaches and personnel experts," Ravens GM Ozzie Newsome said. "Eric, who has had opportunities to interview with other teams recently
and over the years, is another one we want to keep and will keep. He has chosen to stay with the Ravens, and we're excited that he will.”
Newsome, who turns 56 in March this year, has never hinted at weighing his options for a retirement from the GM slot at the Ravens. However, DeCosta is considered a natural contender to be next in line as a Newsome successor, and he apparently has been rewarded
by his employer for his loyalty to the team through an upward revision in his pay scale.
Bisciotti has again backed the director for continuing with his team, saying he should not have any reasons to seek to switch over the side to join any other outfit in the league.
Bisciotti said: "I think Eric is smart enough to see what happened with Phil [Savage] and George [Kokinis], and he'll probably limit himself to consideration of just a handful of jobs.”
A number of teams’ owners seeking to rebuild their sides in the post-regular-season period have reshuffled key positions in administration and management through hiring firing of respective personnel.
The Indianapolis Colts leads the group by having fired its vice chairman Bill Polian and his son general manager Chris Polian.
Jim Irsay, Colts’ owner, is now in search of a potential candidate for the GM slot and Eric Decosta has been tipped as a bright prospect for him, but not anymore.
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