Brian Billick
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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
baltimore chris early game next plans team wants week whatever
Chris will do whatever he wants this weekend. He and I will reconvene early next week and go from there. We've got a game to play this weekend, and I have a team to orchestrate. Chris will make his plans accordingly and be back to Baltimore on Monday.
baltimore chris early game next plans team wants week whatever
Chris will do whatever he wants this weekend, ... He and I will reconvene early next week and go from there. We've got a game to play this weekend, and I have a team to orchestrate. Chris will make his plans accordingly and be back to Baltimore on Monday.
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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.
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channel (its) passion and intensity in a positive way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You could spend the entire offseason preparing for what New Orleans does to this point, ... But if they're a zone team, they could decide, you know what, we're going to blitz every down. In preseason, it's really about you and what you're trying to do than what's the opponent doing.
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You can only imagine, if you can put yourself in that circumstance, carrying around in the back of your mind the consequences of where Jamal found himself. Now that that is totally behind him, it would only make sense that Jamal's mind is truly free to be focused on his job.
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These are grown men, I can't lock them up and put them away 24-7. He had free time. Until we know exactly what happened -- there are legal liabilities here -- but anytime someone has free time they had better act responsibly. You can't do it any other way.
brought confidence people structure wrapped
This is all orchestrated for Kyle, this playbook, this offense, because he has to be successful. We have every confidence he can be, not only with the people we brought in, but with the structure we've wrapped around him.
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.