GM Candidate: Joe Hortiz, Director of College Scouting; Baltimore Ravens

[The Marshall Plan]

This is My Guy for the GM job.

Joe Hortiz the current Director Of College Scouting for the Baltimore Ravens.

Qualifications:

1) 19 years with the Ravens working his way up from scout.
2) Baltimore is a team, with the exception of a couple years, that is always competitive. Yes there are a variety of reasons for that, but the guy scouting out the draft picks has to play a huge part.
3) I'm really hoping that Hortiz is a Hispanic last name so that the Diversity Officer is pleased. Everybody wins with this hire I guess.
4) Being with the Ravens he also worked with Ozzie Newsome a lot.



http://www.ravenspr.com/coaches_personn ... HORTIZ.pdf

[Ditka’s dictaphone]

This is My Guy for the GM job.

Joe Hortiz the current Director Of College Scouting for the Baltimore Ravens.

Qualifications:

1) 19 years with the Ravens working his way up from scout.
2) Baltimore is a team, with the exception of a couple years, that is always competitive. Yes there are a variety of reasons for that, but the guy scouting out the draft picks has to play a huge part.
3) I'm really hoping that Hortiz is a Hispanic last name so that the Diversity Officer is pleased. Everybody wins with this hire I guess.
4) Being with the Ravens he also worked with Ozzie Newsome a lot.



http://www.ravenspr.com/coaches_personn ... HORTIZ.pdf

This guy!

He gets soup

[Middleguard]

I can't find his age, but I'm guessing just shy of 50. I doubt he qualifies as minority because that's never mentioned and (as you pointed out) it can be significant. The only thing that troubles me is that, like Pace, he only has experience with one team.

[Xee]

Looks like Sports Mockery had a similar take in November:

https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-b ... deep-dive/

[The Cooler King]

Mods, can we separate subjects to differentiate confirmed candidates verse wish list or speculative ones?

[The Marshall Plan]

This is My Guy for the GM job.

Joe Hortiz the current Director Of College Scouting for the Baltimore Ravens.

Qualifications:

1) 19 years with the Ravens working his way up from scout.
2) Baltimore is a team, with the exception of a couple years, that is always competitive. Yes there are a variety of reasons for that, but the guy scouting out the draft picks has to play a huge part.
3) I'm really hoping that Hortiz is a Hispanic last name so that the Diversity Officer is pleased. Everybody wins with this hire I guess.
4) Being with the Ravens he also worked with Ozzie Newsome a lot.



http://www.ravenspr.com/coaches_personn ... HORTIZ.pdf

This guy!

He gets soup

The Honorable Mr. Hortiz not only gets soup. He gets bread without paying extra.

AND...

He gets the French Armoire.

[wab]

Mods, can we separate subjects to differentiate confirmed candidates verse wish list or speculative ones?

I'll work on cleaning some of this stuff up.

[The Cooler King]

Mods, can we separate subjects to differentiate confirmed candidates verse wish list or speculative ones?

I'll work on cleaning some of this stuff up.

Thanks! At the pace the Bears are at this forum page is gonna run 3 pages deep with candidate threads in a day lol.

[Grizzled]

This is My Guy for the GM job.

Joe Hortiz the current Director Of College Scouting for the Baltimore Ravens.

Qualifications:

1) 19 years with the Ravens working his way up from scout.
2) Baltimore is a team, with the exception of a couple years, that is always competitive. Yes there are a variety of reasons for that, but the guy scouting out the draft picks has to play a huge part.
3) I'm really hoping that Hortiz is a Hispanic last name so that the Diversity Officer is pleased. Everybody wins with this hire I guess.
4) Being with the Ravens he also worked with Ozzie Newsome a lot.



http://www.ravenspr.com/coaches_personn ... HORTIZ.pdf

Make it a clean sweep, let him be hired and bring in Greg Roman.

[wulfy]

The Honorable Mr. Hortiz not only gets soup. He gets bread without paying extra.

AND...

He gets the French Armoire.

BUT .... the bigger question .... is he ..... spongeworthy??

[The Cooler King]

Now rumored to be on the now very long list.



Even with the short format of these opening interviews, this is gonna take a while, jeez.

[The Marshall Plan]

@Hema2.0

I'm sorry bro, but I gotta go with My Guy now that it's serious.

[Hema2.0]

But I did the damn mock press conference without a drop of soup on my tie. Plus I found all the damn Y's too.

Oh well, being the HH greeter has its perks too.

[The Marshall Plan]

But I did the damn mock press conference without a drop of soup on my tie. Plus I found all the damn Y's too.

Oh well, being the HH greeter has its perks too.

The dream can still become a reality.

We need an HC too!