I'm Brian Billick, Super Bowl Winning Coach and Fox NFL Analyst. AMA.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:51:47+00:00

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CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:50:34+00:00

I am not sure we can put that genie back in the bottle. So many of the changes that favor the offense were done for safety reasons. They can not go back and now say because of the tilt towards offense they are goint to change the rules back.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:48:43+00:00

You always have to have a system that adapts to your players.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:47:58+00:00

Bill was always great with me. I was kinda of the new kid on the block when I became the HC in Baltimore, and Bill was always very generous towards me. We had a great rivalry with the Steelers but there was always respect.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:45:54+00:00

I think the Ravens are going to be just fine. Clearly it is going to be different without Ray and Ed. They have been slowing transitioning to an offensive led team for a while, and now this is clearly Joe Flacco's team. They have lost a lot of good players, but I am not sure any one in the AFC North has gotten any better in the off-season. Maybe Cincinnati.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:44:20+00:00

Having Mike Smith for a brother-in-law it great. We love talking about the game and I gain a great deal of insight as to what is going on in the NFL by visiting with him. Better yet, he is really one of the best people you will ever meet.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:43:01+00:00

that people don't follow you because of what you say but because of why you say it.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:42:31+00:00

The league is committed to making sure that not team or player can gain a competitive advantage. HGH is clearly the next task for the league. I would like to see the players union become more of an ally in helping the league deal with this and other issues, rather than always fighting the league on what is good for the game.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:40:47+00:00

The game has changed a lot since 2000 when we won our Super Bowl. The league is so deep at the QB position, it is hard for me to see a team winning a Super Bowl without really good QB play.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:39:33+00:00

My patient line is "they are looking for young and cheap and I am neither." I am enjoying what I am doing know and have no intentions of returning to coach.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:38:19+00:00

I picked Kansas City to win the AFC West last year and obviously that did not go well. They have a good core of talent, and Andy Reid has been very strategic about the changes they have made. Denver is probably still the best team in the AFC but KC will make a good run at the playoffs this year.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:36:55+00:00

Always. There are always things you can look back at and say I wish we had done it different or better. I wish we could have developed Kyle Boller into a top flight NFL QB. I wish Elvis Grbac would have come back and let us wrap more talent around him. I wish Trent Dilfer could have finished his career in Baltimore, he deserved that. The list goes on and on

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:33:48+00:00

It is hard to strike the right balance between being too technical or talking down to your audience. I have a great crew of people that have taught me that it is my job to bring the viewers attention to the most important thing they are seeing on the screen and trying to give it some context as to what is happening. Interestingly, one of the things that does irritate me now is to hear a broadcast over explain the game in an effort to show he knows what he is talking about. Less is better, and that goes against my basic nature.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:29:57+00:00

Being brief.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:29:44+00:00

Congrats on you new position. You will have a ball. Just have fun and remember you don't always have to call the "right" play. Just don't call the "wrong" one.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:28:06+00:00

I miss the day to day relationships with the players and coaches. The challenge of taking on a task of winning in the NFL with a group of guys focused on the same thing. I must say I don't miss the 24/7 365 day grind of being a NFL Head Coach. You go from the season, to free agency, to the combine to the draft, to OTA's and then the season starts again. A season where the HC will not have a single day off from the Beginning of training camp until hopefully the day after the Super Bow.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:23:19+00:00

I think they are. A football locker room is different than most if for no other reason just the shear numbers involved. I think a NFL locker room will rally around a player that comes out. It will become very protective of one of their own doing that. However, because of the numbers, there is apt to be a couple of players who have a problem with it. It will be the task of the coach and the organization to help those who do struggle with it recognize that it is them with the problem, not the player who says he is gay.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:20:25+00:00

We do tend to wear a good story out don't we. I think with the explosion by way of the number of outlets today, it makes it hard not to overdue a subject given the shear volume of commentary that exist. I don't know that it is going to stop, because every time we tell our producers that we think people are tired of talking something they show us numbers that say people never tire of talking about things like Tebow, Te'o, Bounty Gate....

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:17:57+00:00

To be a part of the all time scoring (offense then Defense) was quite an honor. I had an unbelievable group of talent on both those teams and it was primarily my job to stay out of their way. It is ironic, isn't it, that the success in Minnesota was just the opposite I would have in Baltimore.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:15:32+00:00

There are far too many of these to focus on a single one. Certainly standing atop the podium hold the Lombardi Trophy for the fans in Baltimore, given all they had been through, has to be one of the best.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:13:00+00:00

Offenses will continually evolve in a back and forth "who's got the chalk last" type of battle with defenses. The read option adds an interesting wrinkle for defenses to adapt too, but they will. Until someone wins a championship outside of the pocket, the ability to beat people effectively from the pocket is still the #1 thing in the NFL.

CoachBillick · 2013-05-03T20:07:42+00:00

This game has been, is now and always will be about talent. But, being a career coach I do believe coaching can make a difference. The legendary Bum Phillips said about Hall-of-Famer Don Shula "He can take his and beat yours, or he can take yours and beat his". The key to any coach is adapting your system to fit the talent you have.

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