Bill Landis

If this is James Laurinaitis, like seeing a version of himself, this guy sees the game like I do.

This guy has the instincts.

Like, and the thing, I mean, I covered James as a player, obviously, and it was always back then.

It's like, whatever, who cares about his 40 time?

Who cares about his agility drill?

His whole thing is he's so smart that he starts before everybody else starts.

Like, what if Peyton Pierce, what if Peyton Pierce is like that?

And that's the thing.

It's like, well, Sonny was kind of like that too.

And then Sonny also ran a 4-1 when he did it.

So it's like, oh my God.

But,

But what if that's what we're looking at, like a version of that?

I keep saying I don't want to go too far down the line with this, but I basically think James Laurinaitis sees himself, and by the way, James Laurinaitis was a three-time first-team All-American.

I think Raekwon is not a terrible comparison because Raekwon was a good athlete, but Raekwon was kind of like a thumper, right?

Raekwon was smart and he had instincts and he had an attitude and he would light you up sometimes.

yeah i mean he was also he was like uh wasn't he like the number one linebacker in his class yeah he's a five star so yeah yeah i mean yeah luke fickle he got here luke fickle like called him five star first day of practice was like yeah don't don't think you're too good and then mcmillan's like gonna be a co-starter for a national championship team and they're like okay you're good number 22 overall player in the 2014 recruiting class yeah um

Yeah.

Along the lines of covering James Laurinaitis, our buddy Stefan Kreischnick from Cleveland.com is apparently, I guess, is working on a story on James Laurinaitis.

And he said that he was like looking up James Laurinaitis stories in the Cleveland.com system.