Billick Fired as Ravens Coach

Seattle Slew · 12-31-07, 04:16 PM

Bilick didn't make many friends around the league. Wonder where he lands from here.

Sportsgirl · 12-31-07, 04:16 PM

Miami?

Tricky · 12-31-07, 04:26 PM

Originally posted by Sportsgirl

Miami?

Parcells bringing in Billick?? Not in a million years.

SBR Lou · 12-31-07, 04:32 PM

Billick needs to take a year off. He should clear his head, something is not right with him lately.

minet123 · 12-31-07, 05:28 PM

Heading to the "Block" now to celebrate

Seattle Slew · 12-31-07, 09:25 PM

He did some TV work a few times when the Ravens weren't in the playoffs.

Bet the Baltimore media isn't sad to see him go. He seemed like a real prick in the PG news conferences.

Doc JS · 12-31-07, 09:48 PM

A couple of observations:

Billick is not the offensive genius that he and everyone else thought he was coming out of Minnesota. Clearly, in hindsight, that was more Moss/Carter, etc. than it was Billick.

Nobody wins for long in the NFL without a quality QB. Yes, the Ravens won a Super Bowl with Trent Dilfer. Yes, the Bears got there with Rex Grossman. But when you look back at the Super Bowl winners you see a lot of Bradys, Mannings, Farves, Montanas, Aikmans, etc. Now, it's certainly fair to blame/criticize Billick for not finding/developing a quality QB during his tenure as Ravens coach.

As much as it pains me to sorta defend Billick, I'll end with this:
Is Billick a signifantly different coach this year at 5-11 than he was last year when he was 13-3 and awarded a contract extension?

Doc

slacker00 · 01-01-08, 04:32 AM

Good point about the contract extension, Doc. It was probably coasting on reputation & pretense. Billick probably had that job as long as he wanted it. This season, with his increasing antics & the team's tailspin, he was basically begging to get fired.

I never liked Billick. When he was OC in Minnesota, I never understood his "genius". Sure, they had a good year, but they also had some unique talent assembled on offense at that time. Not like there was a long running track record of accomplishment by Billick at that time. Then he goes to Baltimore and the offense really does nothing in his 9 years there, albeit the defense was as good as anyone EVER for those same 9 years.

Billick just seems like a poor man's Mike Martz with a little Mike Tice sprinkled in there, in my opinion. Maybe I'm missing something.