That's basically my view.
I've not seen anything to show he's chucked it. He's been out best defender by a mile, if not quite up there with his own standards set last year. So, I can live with a story in the paper without getting hysterical about it and demanding captaincy stripped and all that.
From memory Dec didn't have an agent previously (think on a podcast he said it was him and his dad who discussed the current contract) but I am sure some sort of chat has happened with a DR journo to print the story. The actual quotes and wording of them I'll take with a pinch of salt.