One-On-One with Eric DeCosta | Wednesday Mailbag
The MMQB NFL Podcast
SI NFL
3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Albert Breer talk with Baltimore Ravens GM Eric DeCosta in this special edition of the Wednesday Mailbag. Albert and Eric get into why he always wanted to be a general manager, how he helped draft some of the Ravens greatest defensive players, and the teams future with MVP Lamar Jackson
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| 0:00.0 | All right, well, this is the second one we've done of these and last week we had a coach, |
| 0:07.0 | we had Sean McVeigh from the Ramzan and you know, I want to bring in guys who I've known for a while who I've got a lot of respect for and I think can give people kind of a lot of a really good idea of how you get to the highest level of professional football and so this week we're bringing in a guy who's, |
| 0:25.4 | like Eric, I think I could probably, |
| 0:28.5 | like you live close enough to, |
| 0:30.7 | or you grew up close enough to where I live right now where, like, I can't walk there, |
| 0:35.4 | but I could probably ride a bike there. And I think, like every time we, every time we drive from |
| 0:41.3 | where my house is in Massachusetts to where my in-laws live, we drive right through Taunton, Massachusetts, which is where Eric Dacost is from. So we'll bring him in now. That's Raven's GM Eric Tocost. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome in. Thanks, Albert. Raven's GM Eric to cost Eric welcome in |
| 0:58.8 | Thanks Albert. I'm happy to do this and I'm happy to spend some time with you today. |
| 1:06.1 | All right, so let's start here. You know I did a little background work and I actually didn't know this about you, but I read somewhere that you actually wanted to be a GM from the time you were six years old, which seems really, really |
| 1:10.9 | young, you know, and I know a lot of a lot of guys |
| 1:14.2 | girl up dreaming about being a player dream about being a coach what do you think it was |
| 1:20.7 | like at a young age that made you like that made you gravitate |
| 1:24.1 | towards being a general manager? Well I just was always fascinated by how |
| 1:28.9 | teams were built and so for me you know growing up in Massachusetts, |
| 1:35.0 | there's a big baseball fan, Red Sox, Patriots, |
| 1:40.1 | to a degree, and the Celtics. |
| 1:42.4 | And there were some great teams, you know, in the late 70s and the 80s, you know, then I just really, it was always just fascinated by different personalities and different skill sets and how they all blend together to build something that you know is special and |
| 1:57.6 | and I was just you know and I think about specifically those Celtics teams |
| 2:03.7 | You know the different personalities of those teams |
| 2:07.0 | and the moves that they made and the players that they add and all those |
| 2:10.3 | types of things and I was just so always so intrigued by how does somebody do that? |
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