I think it says more about Payton's ego than Russell's abilities, personally. We'll see - if Zach Wilson becomes pretty good in Denver, I'll be surprised, though.
As if we can possibly evaluate him a mere few months into his tenure as actually being in charge, almost half a year away from the first real football where he's in charge with...
I can't vote on this, it's too tough. Browner for starting it, tie between Sherman and Kam for maintaining it. Maybe the edge goes to Sherm for mouthing off so much in beautiful glorious ways and pissing off so many non-Seahawks fans to really help bring some extra notoriety to the table, though?
To clarify, my comment was about the "easily first ballot" part. I agree he's a lock for the HoF, and I have no qualms about him getting in on the first ballot; but you're kind of making him out to be in the LB GOAT discussion and I don't think he is. For whatever reason, he was a media darling...
I'm not so sure I agree with the "easily" part. His stats are great, but he had a lot of years with frankly a lot of crappy tacklers around him. When you don't have serious competition for a lot of tackles, it's easier to be a huge tackle numbers kind of guy. Whereas Bobby for much of his career...