Brian Billick Year Quotations

When you're a 2-4 football team, you go back to work and you work your way through. That's what's left of this team right now, ... What the rest of the year holds for us, we'll find out and we'll see what that means. This team will stay together, it will work and it will try to isolate the way that we can get better. That's the only approach I know how to take at this point.

But this year in the league, defense and running the ball seems to be the key. And this is coming from a guy who believes offense is the way to win a championship.

We view last year and this year as almost a singular process,

The good news is we've been down this road with Anthony. The qualifier is, with the year off Anthony had a lot of rust to knock off, and I think he's done that.

I've got a quarterback that's had a year off, ... I wanted to get as many viable snaps, game snaps, with Anthony Wright going into the Tennessee game that I could.

I had a quarterback that had a year off. He needed those snaps. I wanted to get as many viable snaps with Anthony Wright - going into the Tennessee game - as I could. Clearly the game was out of reach, but it was a tactical decision to get Anthony the reps.

I had a quarterback that had a year off. He needed those snaps, ... I wanted to get as many viable snaps with Anthony Wright ? going into the Tennessee game ? as I could. Clearly the game was out of reach, but it was a tactical decision to get Anthony the reps.

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.

Clarence has been outstanding in camp. He's heavier. He's faster. He's stronger and he's more confident all across the board. He carries himself in a totally different way than he did one year ago.

The hard part with that analysis (is), you don't know what those teams are going to be. What looks to be a tough run of playoff teams could end up the next year not being that.