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Thread: Brian Billick employed again ???
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01-25-2008, 09:41 AM #25Veteran Poster
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01-25-2008, 10:49 AM #26
Re: Brian Billick employed again ???
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01-25-2008, 11:15 AM #27Legendary RSR Poster
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01-25-2008, 11:53 AM #28
Re: Brian Billick employed again ???
Yes, starting him instead of Chris freakin' Redman. We would have won the goddamned Super Bowl with Chris "I wasn't ready to play" Redman!
Whatever Billick's contributions behind closed doors, he was *not* the gm, and personnel is the gm's responsibility. Blaming Billick for personnel decisions is like blaming the Vice President for stuff the President does.
I should probably let you guys hate unreasonably on Billick, now that he's gone and getting paid for sitting on his front porch, but it's irritating. Oh well, carry on.Festivus
His definitions and arguments were so clear in his own mind that he was unable to understand how any reasonable person could honestly differ with him.
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01-25-2008, 11:58 AM #29Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Brian Billick employed again ???
Originally Posted by HoustonRaven
Of course Billick had some input into some of these decisions, but stop turning him into the personnel guy. He wasn't.
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01-25-2008, 12:05 PM #30
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01-25-2008, 12:40 PM #31
Re: Brian Billick employed again ???
**AHEM!!**
I'll take the time to step away from you cats bickering like a bunch of old hags at Bingo Night in South Baltimore and get back to the actual (gasp!) TOPIC of this thread.
I don't think Billick will step back into the shark tank as anything less than a HC and not unless the situation fits his specific parameters <--(Billick-speak).
Also, I feel it's too soon for him to do so and that he'll need a couple of years to lick his wounds and collect his money, all while raising the IQ of whichever NFL program he decides to let employ him...
I know I'll be watching attentively with pen and pad whenever he's on...
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01-25-2008, 12:59 PM #32Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Brian Billick employed again ???
If the Ravens had drafted Leftwich and he didn't pan out, as he hasn't panned out, then I bet our "fans" would be saying that Leftwich was Billick's boy but Ozzie wanted Boller.
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01-25-2008, 02:12 PM #33
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Losac, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you play NFL football with the team you have, not the team you want.
I really hadn't pegged you for one of the ones who thought Redman should have been starting, and was evilly ruined by Brian Billick. It's not like Redman *ever* did anything to make me wonder, but perhaps the fact that Redman was once again on an NFL team this year is justification in your mind for second guessing that decision made six years ago.
Color me wrong, I guess.
If you *are* one of those folks then I don't care to discuss it anymore, no offense.Festivus
His definitions and arguments were so clear in his own mind that he was unable to understand how any reasonable person could honestly differ with him.
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01-25-2008, 02:43 PM #34Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: Brian Billick employed again ???
No team focuses on ONE player. They didnt target Leftwich and nobody else. Billick has a long track record with pac-10 schools. Boller had is eye.
When did I say he is the personnel guy??? Just because he doesnt make the final decision doesnt mean his input ranks low. He was the chef (as is Harbaugh now) and has the biggest say on what ingrediants he wants.
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01-25-2008, 03:01 PM #35
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No.
No no no no no no.
No.
Houston stating things as fact does not make them so.
Sorry.
Billick did *not* have responsibility for drafting when he was here as head coach.
Nevermind that we were literally desperate for a quarterback, because of the early departure of Grbac, and we needed somebody who could take snaps. We got someone at pick 19 who is still in the league, five years later. Other teams have done worse at qb with better picks.
Boller was *Ozzie's* pick. However much Billick may have liked him or disliked him, he was Ozzie's pick. It is not the Vice President who signs a bill into law.
:brickwall:Festivus
His definitions and arguments were so clear in his own mind that he was unable to understand how any reasonable person could honestly differ with him.
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01-25-2008, 03:09 PM #36Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: Brian Billick employed again ???
Uhh ... I never said he did.
I agree. Arent we saying the same thing? Yes, of course, its not Billick alone. I've said that and will always say it. But his input is much larger then you give him credit for. Teams do not become succesful with GM's who are in the coaches way -- see down 95 with the Maryland Redskins.
Are you saying that Billick simply got players handed to him and was told to make due with what he got?
That's not very realistic and if Next Man Up is accurate, that's not a realistic assumption on your part.
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