The MMQB editor-in-chief Peter King shares which division he believes is the strongest in the NFL.
Somber day in the NFL. Not a lot of people around the league were tight with Hall of Fame defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy, the 1992 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. (Defensive player of the year awards: Kennedy one, Deion Sanders one, Champ Bailey zero, Julius Peppers zero.) Kennedy was closer to the security guys, the video guys, the neighbors on his block—some of whom didn’t know he was a football player.
When former Seahawks contract negotiator Mickey Loomis—who did the big deals with Kennedy’s agent for the nine-time all-pro player—was let go during a change in ownership late in Kennedy’s Seattle tenure two decades ago, the first call Loomis got was from Kennedy, wishing him well, asking if he could do anything.