Clarence Dennis: Last year, one year after not being named to the 2017 class, you said you had the chance to feel frustrated, confused, or grateful. Do you remember what you chose?

Isaac Bruce: I chose grateful, right? I'm the same. I'm choosing to be grateful and like I said, I've taken my hands off of it, I'm letting other people bring it up and if they ask me a direct question, I give them an honest answer and I just move on from there.

Dennis: After being in control of your play on the field for so many years, what is it like to have this out of your hands?

Bruce: I look at it like this — I think you still have control. Like those choices you just named, it could either be one of those three things, you just can't be both. You can't be frustrated and grateful at the same time, so I choose to be grateful. To be among the 15 finalists to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame with the greatest players to have played this game — some of those guys I grew up watching. It's humbling. That's what it is, it's humbling and you got to experience it that way.

Dennis: Is there anyone you would be particularly honored to join in the HOF?

Bruce: Dan Marino. I grew up watching Dan Marino, I grew up watching some other great players who played other positions, but I guess Dan Marino would be that guy.

Dennis: I have to ask, what are your thoughts on the 2018 Rams? I know they have drawn comparisons to the Rams of the early 2000s.