John Harbaugh known as the transfer to launch embroiled kicker Justin Tucker a “complex decision-making process,” however echoed the chorus from Ravens common supervisor Eric DeCosta that it was “a football decision.”
Tucker was launched by the Ravens earlier this month amid an NFL investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by 16 therapeutic massage therapists from eight totally different spas and wellness facilities across the Baltimore space.
Harbaugh advised reporters Wednesday that the choice — which included the pinnacle coach — to launch Tucker was made together with president Sashi Brown, proprietor Steve Bisciotti and DeCosta.
“You’re talking about arguably the best kicker in the history of the game. And like we said, it’s multi-layered. It’s complicated,” Harbaugh mentioned. “However ultimately, all of it comes again to what it’s important to do to prepare to your group to play the primary sport. I believe in the event you step again and try all the problems, all of the ramifications, you possibly can perceive that we’ve received to get our soccer group prepared, and we’ve received to have a kicker able to go. And that was the transfer that we determined to make. So in that sense, it’s a soccer choice.
“Now we have to spend all of our focus and our time to get these kickers ready. We’ve got a competition going on. We’ll get those guys ready to go make kicks. That’s all I’m thinking about, from my perspective, is we’ve got to have a kicker out there making kicks. And what’s the best way to get that done.”
The Ravens had beforehand indicated that they’d wait till after the NFL completed its investigation into Tucker, however modified their stance after the group made the choice to draft kicker Tyler Loop within the sixth spherical of the draft in April.
DeCosta known as the transfer a “football decision” in an announcement on the time of Tucker’s launch.
Tucker has denied the allegations, which have been first reported by the Baltimore Banner, and known as them “unequivocally false.”
