[Jets] Titans' Kevin Mawae Speaks Up About Eric Mangini

As Titans center Kevin Mawae prepares to play his former team, the Jets, he's speaking up about why he never played for Jets coach Eric Mangini. According to Mawae, who was the Jets' representative in the NFL Players Association, Mangini didn't want him around because Mangini knew that Mawae wouldn't let Mangini get away with violating league rules related to what can be required of players. "The last thing you want is a guy that knows all the rules in there and I definitely would've been one of the guys to call him out on it," Mawae said on a conference call with New York media members. "It all boils down to accountability. You want a player to be accountable and the player wants the coaches to be accountable, and I think that may have been an issue there." Mawae also said that his old teammate Pete Kendall was traded to the Redskins because he, too, would have been the type to speak up rather than silently accept whatever the coaches demanded.

Source: Michael David Smith, NFL Fanhouse