I was listening to the NFL station on Sirius radio and former NFL GM Pat Kirwin said he was aware of teams that absolutely love Richmond QB Kyle Lauletta. He said one team who didn’t want to be identified knew from their 15 minute Combine interview that Lauletta was their guy.
Could that team be the Cardinals? Coach Wilks has said that his QB has to be a leader of men. Kyle Lauletta chose Richmond University partly because they have a super rigorous academic program on Leadership. It’s one of the most unique programs that studies leadership from multiple academic disciplines.
I thought that was very interesting to read, Holian. I didn’t know it, and it made me want to do some more research on Lauletta than I had already done.
By the way, Lauletta majored in the program you are referring to.
Both his dad and uncle played at Navy which you can only do if you are a member of the Navy Academy, so Lauletta grew up in a military family but according to himself he wasn’t raised with a very strict military discipline. He obviously knows some qualities from the Navy Academy, though.
The program that you refers to combines the science and knowledge about anthropology, economics, history, literature, philosophy, politics, psychology and religion to answer fundamental questions like who we are, how we live together and how we influence the course of history. I would say that if you understand that, then you are well qualified to understand the nuances of personalities and behavior in a NFL locker room. Also, the program attracts strong personalities with hopes of becoming leaders in various forms, so to succeed you must find a way to cooperate with big egos so the unit functions well together. Another trait a NFL quarterback has to master.
When Steve Wilks was introduced, Michael Bidwill used the phrase emotional intelligence to describe Wilks and one of the reasons they picked him. Some years ago, I studied emotional intelligence briefly, and though there is more things to it, it is pretty much the gist that you can identify, deal with and act according to your own and other’s emotions. As a major in that leadership program, Kyle Lauletta has to be really clever within emotional intelligence.
I obviously has no idea if the Cardinals plans to select Lauletta, and I don't even know if I would like them to, but I can say that in the last couple of hours I have become a lot more fascinated with him.