“Brian was everything you want a linebacker to be,” Smith said. “First off, that leader. That voice. The guy who’s out in front. He’s an imposing figure. Every play they see a 6-4, 260-pound, 6% body-fat guy in front of you. And Brian was a guy who knew what he was supposed to do. You expect that guy, in big games, to come through. If we needed him to make a big hit, he did that time after time. .. You expected that out of a first-ballot Hall of Famer.