Brian Billick Quotations

We spent next year's No. 1 to get a guy who was ranked 10th on our board this year, ... What's that worth? Unless we wind up in the top 10 of next year's draft -- and we think we're going to a better team than that -- we can live with that price. This building is pumped. We've added to our offense and our defense, and we've got a quarterback we can build around.

We've always talked about the pressure from the outside and contrasting that with Terrell Suggs . If that's a nickel role, you're talking 15-25 snaps. He's capable of doing more, but we have a lot of assets here to balance that out. If we can use him more, we will.

We both want that nasty, foul taste out of our mouths from last Sunday. All but early in the season, there's a lot riding on it right now.

We're going to be very supportive of Jim's looking and hopefully being able to procure a head coaching job. I think Jim would be outstanding. If indeed that doesn't happen, Jim will be back next year. Some of the speculation I've seen is just that, because Jim and I have already had discussions about some of the things we need to do.

We're getting done what we wanted to do, not withstanding the game.

We want to score more points, ... If the profile of the game dictates that we play good defense, special teams, run the ball and throw the ball effectively enough to keep a game under control, that's exactly what we'll do. Yes, we'd like to score more points. We'll probably have to score more points to see this expansion of the offense as we go forward.

We'll see where we are when we get to the quarter mark this week, when we get to the halfway mark. The NFL is all over the map. It's fun to watch.

So I hear they call you 'The Freak' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.

I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.

As Dennis Green used to say, there really is a time for pay and a time to play. And right now we're in the time for pay. That's just the reality of it.

If Russell Wilson gets outside of the protection and can scramble around, New England loses. If the Patriots keep him in the pocket, New England wins.

I told my team before we walked out on to the field in Tampa, I wanted them to stop and look each other in the eye - I mean really look each other in the eye because 10 minutes after we we're done beating the New York Giants, I knew that world would change; free agency, the business side of the business. I wanted them to appreciate this doesn't come very often. It may be the last time you have that opportunity.

There are no moral victories in the NFL. You win or you lose. We lost, but I've never been prouder to be part of a group of men than these guys.

We've been here before. Every team has at some point. You have to embrace the challenge. It's a tall order. It's an outstanding team, Monday night at their place. Our guys will show up, and be energized by it.

The process is what I am tired of talking about sometimes, ... At some point, everyone has to take responsibility for their actions.

This quarterback class looks pretty good. It looks pretty broad based across the entire draft. But I don't care how good an evaluator you are and what your track record is, you draft a guy in the first round, it's a crapshoot. It's 50-50. And that's the thing that will concern most teams. ... When one of us is wrong, we're kind of all wrong, and that tells you how iffy the evaluation of the quarterback process is.

This quarterback class looks pretty good, ... It looks pretty broad based across the entire draft. But I don't care how good an evaluator you are and what your track record is, you draft a guy in the first round, it's a crapshoot. It's 50-50. And that's the thing that will concern most teams. ... When one of us is wrong, we're kind of all wrong, and that tells you how iffy the evaluation of the quarterback process is.

There are varying opinions as to whether you do a surgery on this and there are prevailing opinions that say no, that the strength is good. That's something he and the doctors will have to sort through. Obviously, if they decide that it would put him in additional risk long term and if surgery is required, then clearly that would do him for the rest of the season.

When you're a 2-4 football team, you go back to work and you work your way through. That's what's left of this team right now, ... What the rest of the year holds for us, we'll find out and we'll see what that means. This team will stay together, it will work and it will try to isolate the way that we can get better. That's the only approach I know how to take at this point.

When you're 0-2, your whole world has to be about getting that first win and stopping that slide. A two-game losing streak to start the season, it can't get to that third game. That's a tough nut to crack if it does.

Make no mistake, Kyle is responsible for the way he reacted,

Last year, we felt we were a Super Bowl-caliber team. I think in just about every measure you can put out there, we're a better team than we were last year.

So I hear they call you 'The Freak?' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

Obviously we dodged a major bullet there, ... He seems to be doing fine.

More than any defense we've had, this fits Ray's ability. That's scary. The 3-4 maybe didn't suit Ray as well as the other defenses, but he embraced it anyway. ... He's been asked to adjust because of what's gone on around him. That's asking a lot.

No one's position is advanced ahead of the other's,

Obviously it helps. But this is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately league, so we'll see what he does this week, too. Can you follow up two good performances? It never seems to end.

Obviously it's hugely disappointing to play the way we did. All you can do is go back to work to correct it. There's no use in feeling sorry for ourselves.

Nobody would walk in there and instantly restore credibility to their program faster than Denny Green. I would imagine he'd be a very attractive candidate for where Washington is right now.

Only if we let it. Only if we believe what we read and see. I know the Jets aren't feeling sorry for themselves. I know the resolve that team has. That's a good football team.

Only if we let it, only if we actually believe what we read and see. I know the Jets don't think that way. I know that they are not feeling sorry for themselves.

One of the nice things about Kyle and Anthony is they have similar attributes. They're both active in the pocket, they both have strong arms, they both move around decently, so we don't have to change a whole lot.

I was fortunate. A lot of it has to do with fate. I knew coming in we had a good talent base. And that this is a good organization. But there were fewer obstacles to winning here than I thought there would be.

I would bet that Kyle's not ready to go this week. I'll wait on the doctors, but that one we're most assured of. What the time frame is beyond the week I couldn't say, but I can almost guarantee without being a doctor that Kyle won't go this week.

I would bet that Kyle is not ready to go this week; I'll wait on the doctors, but that one we're most assured of, ... What the time frame is beyond a week, I couldn't say. I can almost guarantee you -- without being a doctor -- that Kyle won't go this week.

If we had Musa Smith and Chester Taylor in 2001, we might have gone back to the Super Bowl.

If we're going to win, we're going to have to run the ball more, ... Therefore we'll have to be in games that are more controllable that we don't put ourselves in a position where we have to throw to catch up.

I don't know that Johnny wasn't looking at pictures of his kids in that little booth. I'm still an advocate of instant replay, but I've long been an advocate of taking it off the field. Let's take it upstairs. With the current system, I've got to expend a timeout, embarrass the officials and throw a red flag out on the field, let him go in and look at God knows what on the Internet and come out and tell me I didn't get a definitive view to overrule it.

I don't know who you compare him to. I think that makes people uncomfortable.

I don't know of a football field, pup, community, Pop Warner, junior high, high school or college that that's not a touchdown. But evidently not in the NFL.

I don't know of a football field -- pup, community, Pop Warner, junior high, high school or college -- that that's not a touchdown, ... But evidently not in the NFL.

I can do the math. You can't trade sevens for three, plain and simple. If you get an opportunity to score or stop them, you can't trade touchdowns for field goals, and that's what we did today.

I can do the math. You can't trade sevens for three, plain and simple.

I can almost guarantee you, without being a doctor, that Kyle won't go this week.

I am afraid I'm not going to be much help to you right now. I am not prepared to give you a lot of observations until I absorb this and look at the film and decide what happened and how we are going to go forward.

But this year in the league, defense and running the ball seems to be the key. And this is coming from a guy who believes offense is the way to win a championship.

Because we have a lot of young players that find themselves in situations, if not exactly like Jamal's ... You never learn more than from your own mistakes.

I have a sense that what this league does to a guy who plays that brilliantly is beat up on him pretty good.

I hate to make the move, but Orlando understands that's what we need to do and hopefully his presence still being around will help us out.

I feel very good about the core of this team. We have some very good athletes here. We've got some very good character on this team. That's a good place to start, and we'll augment it over the next six months in every way that we can.

I can't lock them up and put them away 24-7, ... He had free time, and I don't want to comment until we know exactly what happened. There are legal liabilities here. But anytime someone has free time, they have to act responsibly. You can't do it any other way.

I can only imagine how he must feel without that shadow, without that burden hanging over him. Just look in his eyes. I've never seen him more vibrant. There's more sparkle in his eyes, more energy.

Getting the ball in Jamal's hands more, which is always a point of interest for everybody, lends itself to the old adage that a back doesn't get cranked up until he gets to that 20th, 25th run. That may have something to do with it,

I don't respond to that. That's the most common observation, and I don't know how you quite substantiate that.

If Anthony Wright has a chance of going some place as a starter, he should and we'll encourage and help him in all that we can. Short of someone totally committing to Anthony under those terms, we very much want Anthony back. He understands that.

For those that look at my or any other player, and say, 'Gee, I don't like the way he does this or that,' I can't have a bunch of robots, ... And I can't dictate to 53 individuals that they show their passion and love for this game in a very narrow, rigid perspective of a 51-year-old man.

For Todd, it's time to go after it, ... We'll be prudent about it.

For me to determine that one set of actions vs. another based on my limited perspective in the way that I grew up or the way that I've conducted myself, you've got to be very careful about (that),

He went 23 of 39. If he were 21 of 37 and not thrown two of those passes, it would have been a (heck) of a day and a win. This is why I'm anxious to see the next three games. I learned and saw a lot in yesterday's game, both good and bad, not just about Kyle but about this whole football team.

He went two hard ones yesterday. We're trying to program what he needs, but at the same time not put him at risk.

He did some very good things. It showed he was in command of the game. He was much more fundamentally sound, calmer in the pocket that allowed him to make the better throws that he made.

He has to calm his mechanics down. When he does, he's pretty darn good. Maybe if we can play enough games, the league will beat it out of him to the point where, out of necessity, he slows down a little bit in some of the key fundamentals.

He has the size, the accuracy and the throwing action. He's a spectacular talent, but he doesn't look like anybody. So that tends to make us all nervous.

He is about defense . . . he is about passion, he is about winning,

He looked fresh, which you'd expect after not being here for the first week, ... We'll continue to push him through it and put him through his paces and see if we can get him through that next level of conditioning.

He looked fresh, which is what you would expect after not being here for the first week.

He never lost his cool. He knew he had to make certain plays in order for us to keep going. He was everything you'd expect out of a veteran quarterback. He just calms me. His effect on me is calming. He did that for me in 1998, and he's done that here as well. There's always that sense of, 'You know what? We're OK. We're going to be OK.' It's not a lack of urgency by any stretch. It's just a calmness.

When he's allowed to show up here, we'll go forward. I'm not completely 100 percent certain when that is right now. God and the U.S. government only know.

When he's allowed to show up here, we'll go forward. I'm not completely 100% certain when that is right now. God and the U.S. government only know.

To draw too many conclusions about anybody this early in the season, I don?t know if that?s real functional.

Haven't seen much of you in a while, ... We're just sitting here kind of below the radar screen.

Hard to say. The high ankle sprain is always a concern. It would be ill-advised to project at this time.

He's been told that there's a possibility of surgery since the injury happened. There was always that possibility. I don't know if it's any more viable now than it was before.

He's here plenty early to make an impact.

He's got to look at what he wants to do.

He's been a joy to have, a great addition to this club. We'd love to have him back.

Hopefully, we can run the ball equally as well, ... I'm sure Tennessee is focused on not letting that happen again.

Jamal Lewis is a force to be reckoned with. When it's all said and done, barring injuries, he will have a huge effect our ability to run the ball.

Jamal clearly had that rhythm -- good, tough, physical running -- and he got stronger as he went, which is typical of what you see.

Just make sure we walk across that street on Sunday,

Jim was brought in to make the changes that needed to be made schematically, emotionally, strategically and fundamentally for us to go forward in conjunction with some very good coaches. They collectively and Jim individually deserve all the credit for the improvements that we've seen. We've got a lot of work ahead of us.

I think the process is equitable. It's certainly not perfect. And management would be wise to be more inclusive in their perspective. But Marvin has been enriched by the fact that he has gotten to go through the process. I have no doubt in my mind that someone's going to wisely make him a head coach.

I think we're a better football team than we were last year, in every sense, ... This could very well be the best football team we've had since I've been here, which in essence says that we think we are capable, playoff, Super Bowl-caliber team. However, we did not make the playoffs last year. We don't have the right to talk in those terms. We've got a lot of work to do.

I think we've done things fairly intelligently. We've rebuilt without drastically slipping back at any one point.

I think what this defense did this season was diminished by people taking shots at who we played late in the season,

It had great strength, the point where he could probably play, but, on reexamination, from the long-term perspective, they decided to go with the surgery. I think they went about it the right way.

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Life's great for me. Expectations are low. I've got a Super Bowl ring on one finger and a $14 million contract in the other hand. We're doing it, we're doing OK. Life's good.

I think they signed him at 12:01. It's amazing you can put a contract together in one minute because, of course, there was no contact before then. He's outstanding.

It is always disappointing to lose, especially the last game. You have to carry that with you the entire season. We did not have the intensity and could not match the momentum swing.

Just a lack of focus, ... We'll work at it, and the next time they won't try to do those things.

Just a lack of focus. I don't know what to tell you. We'll work at it.

Jeff's done a great job, because he's already faced the biggest challenge a coach can face,

Kyle surely would like to throw the ball more, but he understands who the bell cow on this team is. Even though the numbers don't look very good, I'm very comfortable thus far with his decision-making process.

Kyle stepped up; it was his time to do it. Now, the challenge is to follow up.

Kyle's, for instance, would've happened in a swimming pool. The way that thing got pinned and turned had nothing to do with the turf whatsoever, ... What we're examining very closely, quite frankly, are the shoes. The players all want, just like the padding, as little a shoe, as light a shoe, as fast a shoe as they can get. But the shoe also is a very strong support mechanism for the foot.

Kyle has now started 16 games in his career. That's one season that he has behind him. So let's see where he goes from here. Let's just wait to judge this kid. The numbers aren't necessarily going to be there in our offense, with our formula of relying on the running game, defense and special teams. But the signs are there, and the kid is developing.

Kyle and Anthony are both athletic, and so is Josh. He fit our profile of what our team looks like. He's not a pure, drop-back passer, but that's not who we are right now.

I saw a tremendous player in Dwight Freeney playing at the top of his game and as dynamic a presence on the outside rush as there is in the game.