Colts’ restructuring leads to another change with departure of longtime personnel adviser

Colts cut job of longtime personnel adviser

INDIANAPOLIS — A longtime player personnel official for the Indianapolis Colts has left the team in a front-office restructuring.

The team says the jobs held by 71-year-old Dom Anile (AH-neel-ee) and several others in the scouting department have been eliminated

Anile was director of football operations for the Colts from 1998 to 2003, then was assistant general manager for scouting in 2004 and 2005. Since then, he had been a consultant for player personnel.

Team president Bill Polian has often cited Anile as a key to the team’s successful drafts and considers Anile one of his closest friends.

It’s another major change in an offseason that has already included the retirement of coach Tony Dungy.