Steve Bisciotti is not playing around.
On Tuesday, at the first press conference since firing legendary head coach John Harbaugh, the 65-year-old owner of the Baltimore Ravens did not hold back.
Be it his thoughts on the coach who won him the Super Bowl to his belief that owners who pass down their franchises to next of kin are bad for the league, Bisciotti held court, and no one was safe from his verbal jabs.
Not even Bisciotti’s friend, Jerry Jones, owner, shotcaller, and ruler of the dormant empire that is the Dallas Cowboys.
Bisciotti talked about how much younger he was when he came into the NFL, and he’s seen how hard Jones has been fighting to get back to the top of the league in the 21st century, to no avail.
The Ravens owner doesn’t want that, and that’s why he fired Harbaugh, even saying that even if he had made it to the playoffs, it would have only bought him one more week of safety. If they had lost to the Houston Texans the same way the Steelers did on “Monday Night Football,” Harbaugh would have also seen the door.
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“When I see Jerry talking about what part of his anatomy he’d give up for a Super Bowl at 83 years old, I don’t want to be there,” Bisciotti said. “I want to win a couple of Super Bowls and get out. I’d love that to be in the next ten years when I’m 75. That’s my dream.”
He then joked that if he had won a few rings and was still a top team in a decade, he would probably prolong his retirement and the sale of the team until he was 76 or older.
It is now up to Bisciotti to find the next head coach of the Ravens, the fourth in the franchise’s history. John Harbaugh brought him one Lombardi Trophy and a consistent slew of playoff appearances, but, as he said in the press conference, he wants more.
Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys haven’t been to the NFC Championship since 1996. Bisciotti, as warm as he is about Jones as a person, also sees him as a future he does not want to represent with his franchise.
