Blogging the Boys Weighs in on Brett Maxie

by Jimmy on Jan 11, 2012 9:00 AM CST in Tennessee Titans News

Jim Wyatt broke the news last night that the Titans have requested permission to talk to Brett Maxie of the Dallas Cowboys. Maxie was apparently only in charge of the safeties in Dallas, not the whole defensive backfield. I asked Dave Halprin of the Blogging the Boys for his thoughts on Maxie:

I don't have much on Maxie, he's been in the shadow of Dave Campo with responsibilities only for the safeties. The Cowboys let Campo go a few days ago and already hired a new secondary coach, but the word is they would like to keep Maxie if he wanted to stay. Our safeties used to be dreadful, but have been a little better recently. As a whole, though, our secondary has been sub-par. People think Maxie is respected by the players, and attribute a good work ethic to him, but the fact they didn't promote him to overall coach of the secondary is curious if they thought that much of him.

I might be wrong, but that doesn't sound like an upgrade.

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Really sounds like they are blaming the poor safety play on coaching

I think Griff and hope will be back next year

by E-Locker on Jan 11, 2012 9:02 AM CST reply actions

I doubt it

Hope is easily replaceable and is getting up there in age. Someone will likely offer Griffin more money than he is worth.

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by theologic on Jan 11, 2012 9:15 AM CST up reply actions

always maah

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by DonFrancisco on Jan 11, 2012 9:15 AM CST reply actions

I knew that would draw you out.

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by Jimmy on Jan 11, 2012 9:54 AM CST up reply actions

I've never heard of him....and I live in Cowboy country.

But with most of the focus on the offense (or should I say the “lack of it”), we didn’t hear very much about the defense this year. I think our secondary is only going to improve next year regardless of who coaches them, soooo, this is not a very big deal. I just hope we don’t have to play Tim Tebow next year….:-)

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by titansfan4ever on Jan 11, 2012 9:25 AM CST reply actions

Haven't heard of him either.

You’d think GAC would be all over it. Well maybe in today’s drive home I’ll hear about it. (Are Nashville’s radio shows on the Titans as annoying as Dallas’ on the cowboys?)

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by oilertitan on Jan 11, 2012 10:40 AM CST up reply actions

This reminds me of last offseason.

Most of us were pretty “maah” about Jerry Gray, too.

You’re right that not getting an internal promotion doesn’t look like a good sign, but sometimes, if the players are bad, there’s nothing you can do about it as a position coach.

If he’s a guy that fits the attitude and personality that Munchak is looking for, that’s probably as important as anything else.

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by TennesseeTyrants on Jan 11, 2012 10:00 AM CST reply actions