Notebook | Jets DT Quinnen Williams Embraced Leadership Advice From Kobe Bryant Jets GM Joe Douglas and HC Robert Saleh Laud Analytics Team; ESPN’s Mel Kiper Bullish on Three Position Groups Mar 10, 2021 at 08:30 AM Quinnen Williams' Introduction to Leadership 101 course was led by an unlikely superstar: Kobe Bryant. The Jets' defensive lineman and Bryant -- who died in a helicopter crash last year with eight other people, including his daughter -- hit it off when Williams trained at Bryant's Mamba Sports Academy (since renamed) in Thousand Oaks, Calif. "Kobe helped me out a lot," Williams said last week on the "Good Morning America" show on the NFL Network. "I trained at Mamba Sports Academy, and he used to come in there every single morning at 4:30 a.m.. He said 'Q, meet me here at 4:30.' And I used to go up there and meet him at 4:30, but he'd be getting done with his workout at 4:30, and in my head I'm like 'Bro, like you told me to come up, so we could talk at 4:30 and you're getting done with your workout, so what time you really had to get here to work out?'