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Brian Billick Discusses Life After The Ravens

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Reporting
Mark Viviano

Some tough talk by Brian Billick, the Ravens head coach who led them to the team's only Super Bowl.

Sports Director Mark Viviano reports despite a disappointing 5 and 11 season, Billick says he still hasn't been told why he was fired.

The Billicks are a football family and, like all who work in the profession, there's the inevitable day the coach gets fired.

Mark Viviano:  I don't know that there's a handbook.  How did Brian Billick handle getting fired?

Brian Billick:  Your first instincts have to be concern about your family and how they're going to process it and recognize all the things that go along with it, to make sure, particularly my youngest daughter, to know that we're OK.  Don't worry. 

Mark Viviano:  Share with us your reaction, Kim, when you heard Brian was fired.

Kim Billick:  That instant, you just break down and your heart just breaks.  It was like they had torn my heart out of my chest.  I want everyone to love Brian, win, lose or draw.  I just want everyone to like him and when someone says they don't want you anymore, it just hurts.

For the Billicks, Baltimore, and most in the NFL, the firing did come as a shock because ownership had told Billick just weeks before that his job was safe.

Mark Viviano:  Steve Bisciotti told us he acted on a gut decision.  Do you have a desire to find out from him why you were fired?

Brian Billick:  I've always been one that moves on very quickly.  I don't see the value in sitting around, feeling sorry for yourself or second guessing things that have already happened.

Mark Viviano:  Does it affect your friendship with Steve Bisciotti?

Brian Billick:  It's hard to say.  It's still new enough.  As I go forward, I don't doubt that Steve and I will interact with one another.  I have a huge amount of respect for him.  I'm very thankful for what Steve's done for my family.  Obviously what has transpired since then, again, that's one of those things that I tend to move on very quickly.  I can imagine there will come a time when Steve and I will sit down and visit with one another and go forward.

Mark Viviano:  What would you want for people to look back on and say, "This is what Brian Billick did for the Ravens"?

Brian Billick:  I would like to think that the people here feel like I became a part of them.  There were good times and bad times but there was an obvious passion for what I did.  Yes, there were successes and that's something they could be proud of, how I represented them, the organization, the city as a whole.

Billick says he still wants to coach in the NFL and even if he gets hired elsewhere, he and his wife vow to ultimately settle in Maryland, a place they've adopted as their home.

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