All signs point to a certain outcome for Alex Anzalone, and he seems to be getting right with it.
When Brad Holmes and Dan Campbell took on the Detroit Lions' rebuild in 2021, familiarity became easy to lean to. For Holmes it was getting Jared Goff, who he'd had a hand in drafting when he worked in the Los Angeles Rams' front office.
Campbell, and surely to some extent defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn, influenced the decision to sign linebacker Alex Anzalone. The trio had spent some years together with the New Orleans Saints, and as Campbell might say Anzalone is/was "made of the right stuff.