Brian Billick: This Year's First Coaching Casualty

ESPN - Owner says Billick will not return as Ravens coach - NFL (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3175037)

Im shocked!!! I thought he might get 1 more year considering the glut of qbs on the market next year.

Way overdue.

I agree with Matty. This guy has underperformed for years. They have had the league's most consistently inept offense and he was brought in as an offensive guru.

It's no surprise...he definitely needed to go.

1 down few more to go.

he just put so much trust into his qbs,this was inevitable!!!anybody think that cowher maybe intrested in this job???

No surprise knew that one was coming, after last year I thought he would be gone. He just couldn't find the right QB.

for someone that was anointed an offensive genius when he was in Minnesota, his Baltimore teams were/ are big time under achieving. long over due

Part of his problem was that, in the year they won the SB, Billick played the "Everyone hates us and it's us against the world. So F*** the world." Eventually, that just became a way to blame the team's shortcomings on someone else - the refs, the media, other teams, etc. It was never Billick's or his player's fault. Eventually, you could just see the players saying "hey, it's not my fault we suck, I'm a superstar".

Billick created a culture where personal accountability and team accountability ceased to exist. When things took a bad turn, instead of pulling together, the team fell apart and, as a team, the players just didn't have any heart. IMHO - that was all Billick.

needed to go...

years in the making...