If you're
a regular reader of
the FanHouse it won't come as any surprise that
Brian Billick's skills as an
offensive playcaller are regular fodder for ridicule.
Ray Lewis isn't a member of the writing staff in these parts, although I'm sure we'd all welcome him with open arms, nor is he an offensive player but neither fact stopped him from
raising questions about what Billick's doing with his clipboard during his weekly radio show.
"We knew he [Willis McGahee] should have touched the ball when you have a fourth-and-one. Old-school football is old-school football. If there is a yard I need to get, there is a running back, a fullback and an offense that is meant to get that.
"You can't make oranges be peaches. It doesn't change. It will never change. That's what Billick has to ask himself, why we keep putting ourselves in those situations. In the Cincinnati game, that cost us with those same decisions."
It's one thing when I say he is making the wrong decisions but when a leader of Lewis' influence and experience calls him a dope it doesn't bode well for Billick or the team. The 2005 season went up in smoke because of backbiting and sniping inside the locker room and yesterday's outburst might be a shot across the bow of similar trouble this season. At some point during this bye week Billick has to stop trying to find peaches and concentrate on the oranges that he's got if he's going to juice up Baltimore's play in the second half.Sorry, No Photos
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 16)
10-23-2007 @ 11:10AM
Steve said...
Josh, wanted to thank you for cutting and pasting and re-re-re-reporting what has already been reported. Keep up the great cutting and pasting and re-re-re-reporting.
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10-24-2007 @ 12:51PM
jwbecotte said...
I don't understand how this guy still has a job. It has never made sense. He was hired because of his offensive genius and yet he consistently puts one of the most mediocre offenses on the field year after year.
With a battered and aging defense, I can't see Billick being around too much longer.
As for Ray Lewis: It always amazes me when players openly criticize their coaches in the press. It never works and it shouldn't be tolerated. The NFL should treat this the same as they do with the officials - with fines and suspensions. If a player is that unhappy they should sit themselves out.
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10-24-2007 @ 1:41PM
BUD said...
Ray Lewis is a piece of you know what. The hell with him he needs to climb back under the same rock that Vicks under and they need to stay there.
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10-24-2007 @ 1:45PM
mivolfan said...
Honestly, what is Ray Lewis thinking?This (Billick) is the guy that vehemently defended Lewis when his Thugicane self decided to allow his friends to kill a man. Billick should get a free pass for LIFE, because no one outside of the Ravens organization thought Lewis was anything more than a murderer at that point. It isn't Billicks' fault that Jamal Lewis is now a Brown.
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10-24-2007 @ 1:45PM
dan said...
WASN'T LEWIS TIED IN WITH SOME MURDER A FEW YEARS BACK?
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10-24-2007 @ 1:57PM
Gern Wormstead said...
Ray Lewis is a total idiot. That doesn't mean that what he said isn't true, Billick needs to go. What a total disaster that team is without any offense, and why bring a high-priced running back in if you won't give him the ball?
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10-24-2007 @ 2:02PM
TommyG said...
So what if Ray Lewis bashed his coach? At least it will give him something to think about, because his play calling really does SUCK!! Even the year they won their Super Bowl(with Trent Dilfer I might add) - didn't they have a span of games where they didn't score 1 TOUCHDOWN! And I'm talking like 4 games they didn't score a touchdown, but expected their defense to win and kick field goals on special teams. I really don't know how this guy has a job, but when you think "BALTIMORE" you think "DEFENSE". Ray is right.
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10-24-2007 @ 2:04PM
Jaymen said...
I hope Ray Lewis doesn't murder the coach... I hear it get easier to kill with each victim
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10-24-2007 @ 2:04PM
arf said...
Isn't Ray Lewis one of Jerry Lewis's kids ??
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10-24-2007 @ 2:05PM
gypsy said...
Ray Lewis is a great player and a great person, everyone makes mistakes, they have a team that can win and Billick can't seem to figure that out. You can't live in the past so what Ray Lewis was accused of years ago dosen't mean that he is a bad person, he was accused not found guilty.
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10-24-2007 @ 2:11PM
westmond said...
I don't imagine anyone would ever hire Ray Lewis to be their head coach. Ray needs to stick with what they pay him to do, and I don't think it's to be a sports "common tater".
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10-24-2007 @ 2:12PM
p said...
I hope that Ray Lewis doesn't try to kill him
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10-24-2007 @ 2:13PM
GreatR said...
Gypsy: killing a person is not a mistake unless the is an auto accident or something. Shooting someone outside a bar is murder.
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10-24-2007 @ 2:14PM
Jodi said...
Okay, Die hard Ravens fan here. I have a few things to say to the folks that commented.
Ray Lewis is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Defensive player in the NFL. He is looked up to by all of the NFL, players, coaches and fans. He should be respected and treated like a man that knows what he is talking about. He should be allowed to speak his mind. He is not ridiculing his coach, but calling it like he and the fans see it.
Also, Brian Billick is an offensive genius. (Look at what he did in Minnesota and what he did for us last year) True, the Ravens are struggling this year. There is no doubt about that. But, as someone that has watched this team struggle and still have a winning season, you will not hear me complain. We have a brand new running back, a quarterback that is injured and half of our Defensive team is injured. Cut them some slack. And I for one, will still be there every Sunday to watch how they improve. (And they will)
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10-24-2007 @ 2:16PM
mam said...
Players like this guy, who are thugs and criminals with the IQ of a bag of grasshoppers, have ruined the game forever.
To hire a-holes like this in the first place is crazy.
Players of his ilk, who can't follow directions, can't keep their giant, testosterone bloated mouths shut, and are always one move from being imprisoned, have ruined football. I can't let my kids watch a game that used to give me goosebumps.
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10-24-2007 @ 2:17PM
suzie said...
For Ray Lewis to criticize ANYBODY is beyond me! It's not like he has uh, any INTEGRITY!!! And yes, he was "tied" to a murder in Atlanta after the Super Bowl a few years back and YES, somehow he managed to get a deal or something - don't remember all the ugly details but he walked.
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10-24-2007 @ 2:22PM
mack said...
brian billick and his offense has to go, without their defense baltimore would be in last place. the defense time and time again has to keep them in the game. and please get rid of kyle boller and mcnair. and for once get a real quarterback. i applaud ray lewis, he is really a winner and wants his team to succeed.nothing wrong with speaking out.
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10-24-2007 @ 2:22PM
mike martin said...
killer ray should be criticising the food in prison and watching billick coach the ravens from his steel chair on death row. killer ray and OJ got off for killing humans, but michael vick will get a prison sentence for killing a dog.
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10-24-2007 @ 2:22PM
lenny said...
Ray Lewis is a killer....Doesn't anyone remember Atlanta...
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10-24-2007 @ 2:24PM
Bills Fan said...
I'm a Bills fan and the only reason the Bills won Sunday was for two reason:
1. Kyle Boiler ... worst then any QB the Bills have ever had! Thank you Kyle !!!
2. Brian Billick ... and I thought the Bills had problems with coaching !!! Thank you Brian
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