On draft day, networks, Billick score

0 Comments | USA TODAY, April, 2008 | by Michael Hiestand

NEW YORK -- While NFL teams need years to figure out if they drafted well this weekend, the picks can already celebrate -- like Brian Billick.

Fox will formally announce today that the ex-Baltimore Ravens coach, who debuted as a national TV analyst on the NFL Network's draft coverage, and didn't embarrass himself, will be a game analyst this season. He'll work both two- and three-man booths, says Fox's Dan Bell, but his on-air partners haven't been set.

Other draft winners: ESPN and the NFL's network, whose ratings for their simultaneous coverage presumably will rise because of a later draft start time this year and fewer minutes between picks.

Both networks sometimes missed live coverage, as they aired ads, of Commissioner Roger Goodell announcing...

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