Brian Billick
Brian Billick
Brian Harold Billickis a former National Football League coach and commentator. Billick spent nine seasons as head coach of the Baltimore Ravens from January 19, 1999 to December 31, 2007; he led the Ravens to a 34–7 victory over the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV, the franchise's first Super Bowl appearance. He was also notable for being the offensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikingswhen they broke the then scoring record in the 1998 season...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth28 February 1954
CityFairborn, OH
serious
I'm told that it's not serious and it's typical.
confidence faced worst year
If you can do it, if you can come out of it whole at the other end, then you have a confidence about you. You've already faced the worst of it, and that confidence just grows, and by the end of the year you're a factor.
allowed calm games gotten last mechanics needs outside pocket protection stay
In the pocket he's been pretty sound. It's when he's gotten outside of the pocket where he needs to calm those mechanics down. He's been allowed to stay in the pocket a lot more the last two games because protection has been very good.
became deal direction elvis given heading indication jim leverage onto perceive potential pushed reason situation
I don't perceive this is as much of a problem, but if it became one then we'll deal with it. If Elvis and Jim wanted to use this situation as leverage to be pushed out onto the market, they could. But I have no reason to think that they want that. Is there the potential for them to do something else? Yes. But we've been given no indication that it's heading in a direction they're not comfortable with.
gotten since solid supposed
Chad's very solid for us. Since the day he's gotten here, he just does what he's supposed to be doing, when he's supposed to be doing it, how he's supposed to be doing it.
channel intensity passion positive
channel (its) passion and intensity in a positive way.
aggressive class condense eight hopefully miss missed school summer took weeks
Hopefully he'll get in quickly, ... With a quick, short, aggressive camp, this is like the summer school class you took where you condense eight weeks into four. If you miss one of those classes, you've missed a lot. If you miss one of these workouts, you've missed a lot.
bigger bring mind next stick team
He told his team that he didn't mind if they were 0-3, just bring a big stick, ... They need to bring a bigger stick next time.
dictated dominant lewis number ray somebody thinks thrives
He thrives off that kind of challenge. Ray Lewis is too intelligent to let his self-worth be dictated by someone else. Yeah, there's always somebody who thinks you can do it better. And he's 30. But he has a number of dominant years left.
calls entire line offense
He's like no other quarterback in the league. That's what makes him so dynamic, ... There's so much they do at the line. They don't do a lot personnel-wise. They don't do a lot formationally. Everything he does, he calls the entire offense from the line basically.
addition depth great huge obviously pickup running special time
He's a huge addition for us, particularly on special teams. Obviously at this time of the season, to have depth at running back is pivotal, so it's a great pickup for us in that regard.
attitude brought excited handled pressure proud team week
I'm excited, excited about the way this team responded and proud of the way they handled the pressure all week long, the attitude they brought into the stadium, ... They responded just the way you wanted them to.
basically begin cleared hesitation stage sure talked
I just basically talked to him about what we're doing and made sure he wanted to still be around for this stage of rebuilding. We just talked football. Just cleared the decks. I wanted to tell him what's going on and make sure he was comfortable with it all. We didn't even begin to talk numbers, but there was no hesitation on his part.
good recognize
I'm accountable. I'm responsible. Make no mistake. We recognize what we did, and don't feel good about it.