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November 19, 2007

Billick's Monday news conference

Selected quotes from Ravens coach Brian Billick's Monday news conference.

On injuries:

"The biggest concern right now is Trevor Pryce. They are doing all the imaging right now to find out. It’s a pectoral muscle, (either) strained (or) torn. We’ll find out. The prognosis right now isn’t very good. Outside of that we’re in pretty decent shape."

On the field goal by Cleveland’s Phil Dawson at the end of regulation that was initially ruled no good:

“I think it’s prudent the processes we go through in the NFL are in effect. We’ll lodge the normal concerns we have, not only with the way the end of game was administered, but a couple of calls leading up to that and let the appropriate people handle it. For us, it’s a matter of moving on. [It was] very disappointing, surely as unique a circumstance that I have ever been a part of. There’s nothing I can add in terms of what they did, what did they see, what actually happened, what should have been done. I’ll let the officials communicate that as I’m sure they will.”

On whether any realistic chance of the playoffs have disappeared for the 4-6 Ravens:

“It’s gotten away only in a sense that we’re certainly not where we want to be. You hold on to whatever competitive perspective you choose, individually and collectively, you’ve got to take the mentality that we’ll run the table with six wins. You have to do that. Unrealistic? Sure, like any team, but you have to take that attitude. Then you find out after San Diego where we are after that.’’

On the offense in the second half:

“We have to look at the things we did in the second half, whether by circumstances or by how we chose to attack it. We did some awfully good things. Some subtle things we did in the second half that we did in the first half, which are encouraging. And that’s what we’re going to have to look at. The things that Kyle (Boller) did well, and we have to enhance on that. Willis (McGahee) ran very, very well. Certain styles of things Willis continues to do very, very well and we’ve got to tap into."

On whether the Ravens were emotionally ready to play overtime after thinking they had won in regulation:

“They had to be. When you’ve lost, supposedly, and now you’re given a chance to say, ‘You got a shot’ That’s a wholly different mindset than (when) you’ve won -- ‘Oh no, no, no, we’ve got to do it again.’ Now that can’t be an excuse. They’ve got to be able to go back on the field and perform as well. They deserve the credit they get for winning the game. There’s a huge difference between the mindset. In all the years I’ve done this, we’ve talked in training camp (about) preparing your team for the inevitable things that happen: the loss of a key player, the rash of injuries, the change at the quarterback position, the losing streak, the winning streak, all those things you cover in training camp. I was remiss in covering what we do when we’ve won a game, go in the locker room and are told to come back out and play again. That’s not one scenario I’ve covered. I don’t know if I had them adequately prepared for that.’’

On not running the clock down past 26 seconds before allowing Matt Stover to kick the go-ahead field goal:

“We were on the 30 on a cold damp night, we have a lot of faith in Matt Stover. We were trying to get the yardage and we had a little out route that kind of got away from us. Had we completed that, the idea was by the nature of the route, if caught, would have bought us another five, six, seven yards and gotten out of bounds and allowed us another call if we chose to. Didn’t turn out that way and fortunately Matt came in and hit it. You’ve got to hope that you can cover kicks well enough and make that a longer field that it doesn’t allow a team to come back. Obviously we didn’t get that done.’’

Posted by Don Markus at 4:18 PM | | Comments (6)
        

Comments

I was a little encouraged be the movement of the ball but almost turned the game off by the end of the first half,due to poor plays or lack of execution of the plays. Billick does not bare that this week, alone. As they struggle from week to week. I hope they learn as much as possible for the up coming year since Billick knows he will still be here. The fans are not likely to sit through another first half in the distant future. They also must coach the difficult scenarios that crop up much better, i.e. hurrry- up offense, late kick off's to the opponent when only a 3 pointer to win is needed.

I cant take it. Billick continues to make excuse after excuse. "We were on the 30 on a cold damp night"...Please.......

With all the talk of cleaning house with some of the veterans (Ogden, Flynn, Rolle, Mason etc) I'm surprised that Todd Heap's name never comes up. We should either attempt to trade him and get some of Magahee's draft picks back or just flat out cut him. I understand by cutting him we would take a small penalty in terms of the salary cap, but we could sign someone who makes 1/3 of what Heap does and he'd be more reliable. And of course we do have Wilcox and Quinn S to rely on as well.

Sorry ladies, time to turn in your pink Heap jerseys. Most of you are tougher than him anyway. I said before, you would have to cut Ray's leg off for him to miss the Steelers game on Monday night. Heap is just not that tough or competitive. Trade him to the NFC before he loses even more value, like Tejada

Here's one of the biggest reasons we lost,paraphrasing the genius,"you hope you would cover the kickoff well enough and make it a longer field."Why,when we hadn't covered well enough all night do you even go that route?Not,I should have run the dam ball,my bad,I know I've made the same mistake over and over but I really thought it would work the 900th time.Sorry Billick has to go,this is awful!

It will happen again. An existing rule will be broken ultimately to validate the true outcome of a game. Fine. Wait until it happens to the Patriots or Packers (the current media darlings). When THEY lost as a similar officiating result - let's see where the media stands...For some reason, I believe we will hear, "The Patriots / Packers were robbed!!! The NFL rules and must be followed! Yes, the other team probably won, but the integrity of the EXISTING NFL rules MUST be respected!!!"

Be patient it will happen...

I can't believe Jason is a living breathing human being!! Cut or trade Heap???? We would have NO offense if we did that. He's the best thing we have on offense! I don't know what Jason is drinking or smoking but he's out of his head . Cut Heap!!!!! He's nuts!!

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