Brian Billick — he in all of his self-proclaimed ”offensive genius” – should pack an emergency exit bag, because his days in Baltimore are nearing an end.

Last we checked in on him, he was screwing up pass/run decisions on his way to loses. As of today, his Ravens are 4-6 and his inability to score has continued. Baltimore is ranked 26th in the league in points scored. And, worst of all, luck is not on his side.

As the Browns trailed 30-27 closing in on the final moments of regulation, Phil Dawson lined up and nailed one of the most bizarre field-goals ever witnessed in the field of play. The ball bounced off the left upright, fell onto the crossbar, and bounced backwards into the end zone. The two referees underneath the goal posts were baffled. One gave the incomplete signal as the other one questioned what the ball actually hit. The referees never left the field, as they went to confer with each other, but the Ravens headed into the locker room assuming they won the game.

Although the play was not reviewable, one of the goal post refs determined – correctly — that the ball had bounced off the crossbar, which meant the field-goal try was good.

The refs throw up the “it’s good” signal. Fans subsequently booed the refs. The very comfortable Ravens players were summoned from inside their comfortable “we just won!” locker room and proceeded to lose very quickly in overtime — by yet another field-goal.

In the post game press conference, Brian Billick was fuming mad for the series of events. His not-so-subtle complaint –

“We talk many times in training camp about preparing your team for the inevitable things,” Billick told reporters Monday. “I was remiss in covering what we do when we’ve won a game, go into the locker room and are told to come back out again. That’s not one scenario that I’ve covered. So, I don’t know that I had them adequately prepared.”

These bizarre moments happen in the NFL and aren’t exactly covered in the “NFL Refs For Dummies” booklet. The refs needed to confer and eventually got the call right — and Billick’s team was on the bad end of the “fixin’.”

Such is life.

Be it his bad luck or a little thing we call “diminishing skills,” Billick knows the end is near. The writing’s on the wall and now, even the ball seems to be screwing with his lifestyle. So no one is surprised for his excessive dwelling on the refs’ management of the bizarro field-goal correct call. Hell, had he turned into Mike Gundy on the postgame podium, no heads would have turned.

Billick is on the ropes. Scratch that — he is on the other side of the ropes, laying injured after being tossed into the crowd. Ever since their Super Bowlsome time now, Ray Lewis and his highly-feared defense covered up for Billick’s inadequacies. But now, tired of holding in the worst-kept secret — that Billick is no longer good at what he does — even Lewis himself has had enough.

Jim Fassel took the fall last October for the Ravens’ poor offense. Now, the Ravens are running out of scapegoats. Sooner or later the Ravens will point their blaming fingers in the right direction.

Until that point, expect Billick to dwell on Dawson’s field-goal for what seems like a lifetime.

Get used to hearing the following two words quite a bit — “Why me?”