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The Beat with Aaron Wilson - RAVENS V. BENGALS CONFIDENTIAL

With Steve McNair & Marvin Lewis
Posted On: 11/5/06
Written By:  
Aaron Wilson
RAVENS V. BENGALS CONFIDENTIAL
Ravens Confidential
 
Three downs with Steve McNair
 
1. On what Brian Billick brings to the offense: “When Brian came in, he asked me what I like to throw and what I like to do and we put it into the offense. They did a good job of protecting me, and I think Brian did an excellent job keeping their defense off balance with keepers and with play-action and with running the football. When you run the ball as efficiently as we did, then you can do a lot on offense."
 
2. On mixing up the offense: “We have a few formations where we can run three different things. We can run the waggle. We can run the play-action, and we can also run the football out of it. That's what Brian has brought to this offense. He's showing things and doing different things out of it.
 
"When you get the defense thinking one thing and then do another, then you've already got half the battle won and you just have to get out there and execute it."
 
3. On the offense having higher expectations now: “That's what I told the guys. I was talking to the receivers, and we set the bar high and we know what we can do offensively. We just have to keep it up, and I think the guys need to have that mentality from here on out to get the job done regardless of what situation or what predicament we are in during the game."
 
Bengals Confidential
 
Three downs with Marvin Lewis
 
1. On players questioning the play-calling: "They just experienced that a couple of weeks ago in Baltimore. When you lose, you've got to question everything. It's not unfamiliar for the players of any team to go that way and you see it happen across the league. Any question of play-calling is just a question of attitude because they have to go execute no matter what play we call. They also get led down the line with questions like that."
 
2. On whether running back Jamal Lewis has declined: “Again, I think too much is always made of the running back. That's the thing that always happens to these runners. They are the same gifted runners when they get 1,500 yards or when they go for 60 or 70 yards in a game. Too many times you guys take shots at them that way, so I'm going to let it go at that."
 
3. On dealing with the distraction of his players' multiple legal problems: “Those things haven't really affected the core of our football team whatsoever. We have only had one player who ever plays any snaps that has had any problem with anything and the rest of it has been really not an issue for our football team. That has not really been bothersome. We played two weeks without Chris Henry. We'll play the rest of the year without him if he doesn't figure it out. Hopefully, he has because he's paid a heavy price."
 
Aaron Wilson covers the Baltimore Ravens for the Carroll County Times in Westminster, Maryland

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Posted On: 11/5/06
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