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Originally Posted by O.city
So for the pro Billick guys, what happened to him after they wont he SB?
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Elvis Grbac.
It's amazing just how much Grbac's cowardice !@#$ed over the Chiefs and Ravens.
Billick saw Grbac throwing those pretty deep passes off play-action in KC and thought he could upgrade on Dilfer to perhaps re-create those deep tandems he had in Minn. with Cunningham chucking it deep to Moss. Grbac, for everything he did poorly, did have a nice deep ball.
Then Grbac got paid and showed his true colors - a pussy and a quitter. He refused to take a pay cut, so the Ravens released him and when they did, he quit. If he wanted to be a football player, he'd have restructured his deal and stayed with Baltimore, but when he refused and quit, he left the Ravens in an
incredible lurch.
When he walked in 2002, they had no choice but to aggressively pursue a QB that could come in and play immediately. They had to scramble in 2002 and (shocker) Jeff Blake and Chris Redman weren't the answer. With a SB caliber defense, the needed someone under center and couldn't try to do the late round, draft/develop thing for even a single year. They needed a QB and they needed one immediately for the 2003 season.
So they used a 1st rounder on a guy that many did believe was the most talented QB in the draft that year. And they had to give him his 3 years to develop. And let's be honest - Boller was the only defensible QB choice there; everyone after him was utter shit.
Elvis Grbac's cowardice is the disaster the undid Brian Billick. That and desperation born of the wasted 2002
after the Grbac debacle.