Kiko and Maxwell trade

Sounds like the trade is placed on hold due to Maxwell's shoulder injury. The trade may need to be re-negotiated or cancelled. Now that we crapped on Grimes and Maxwell may not happen the Dolphins need to find two starting corners

Uh oh...latest news is that the trade is back on!  Phins are apparently OK with Maxwell's shoulder.  Teams will swap first rounders...no other picks involved.  I am not a fan. 

I just read Maxwell told the Eagles he was fine and told the Dolphins he was injured.

Here is rotoworld's opinion on the trade:

rotoworld wrote:The deal was agreed upon Monday, but there was a hang-up Wednesday morning when the Dolphins were reviewing Maxwell's physical. He suffered a sprained SC joint in his shoulder Week 15 and missed the final two games. Maxwell allegedly told the physician that he still can't bench press or do a push-up, but the Dolphins laughably have still signed off on the deal. Eagles "GM" Howie Roseman has pulled off a heist, moving up five spots in the first round AND getting the Dolphins to take Maxwell's albatross six-year, $63 million contract.

Ugh. 

The more the Dolphins change the more they remain the same. Inept is to inept to describe how inept Miami's front office is!

Rumor has it that the DeMarco Murray trade involves the Eagles and Titans swapping 4th round picks...yet we're swapping 1st rounders for a mediocre injured corner and an injury-prone LB that hasn't done anything since 2013.  Thanks, Tannenbaum.   

We're missing out on what could be an elite draft pick for two players that may not even be Dolphins in 2017!  Horrible.  All I know is, if Bosa falls to 8 - which is possible - I will be extremely pissed off.

Here's the Dolphins medical staff signing off on Maxwell.

https://www.google.com/search?q=picture+of+person+in+intensive+care&biw=1600&bih=783&tbm=isch&imgil=pCKe5QsCr4qfTM%253A%253B-8AQKI3LG158fM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fen.wikipedia.org%25252Fwiki%25252FMajor_trauma&source=iu&pf=m&fir=pCKe5QsCr4qfTM%253A%252C-8AQKI3LG158fM%252C_&usg=__LlMPpzimKXHGmT0Z_LHzIOmU0I0%3D&ved=0ahUKEwj478j5h7TLAhVC6CYKHYYBAYUQyjcIMQ&ei=W1TgVrjWIsLQmwGGg4SoCA#imgrc=pCKe5QsCr4qfTM%3A

Love this article by the Herald. Look at the tight coverage we can expect from Maxwell in the picture!
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/article64946477.html

CarsonChris wrote:Here's the Dolphins medical staff signing off on Maxwell.

https://www.google.com/search?q=picture+of+person+in+intensive+care&biw=1600&bih=783&tbm=isch&imgil=pCKe5QsCr4qfTM%253A%253B-8AQKI3LG158fM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fen.wikipedia.org%25252Fwiki%25252FMajor_trauma&source=iu&pf=m&fir=pCKe5QsCr4qfTM%253A%252C-8AQKI3LG158fM%252C_&usg=__LlMPpzimKXHGmT0Z_LHzIOmU0I0%3D&ved=0ahUKEwj478j5h7TLAhVC6CYKHYYBAYUQyjcIMQ&ei=W1TgVrjWIsLQmwGGg4SoCA#imgrc=pCKe5QsCr4qfTM%3A

LOL  Gotta love it. 

"Doc, I can't even do a push up right now!" 

"That's great, Byron - welcome to the Dolphins!"

There was a Rumor going around that the Fins were getting a 4th rd pick also in the Deal, I saw that on Monday, I guess at 4:00 we will know the truth and than not like it at all.

Why couldn't these doctors had been on the Team when we looked at Brees. LOL

CarsonChris wrote:Love this article by the Herald. Look at the tight coverage we can expect from Maxwell in the picture!
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/article64946477.html

You think that's bad, watch this clip of Maxwell trying to tackle a TE:

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap3000000606017/Darren-Fells-takes-Byron-Maxwell-for-a-ride

My guess is the Dolphins fell in love with Maxwell when Matthews had that 70 yard gain against him when we played this year. He will fit right in with Thomas.

I Personally hope that Maxwell Plays Great In Miami, I saw him Play in High School and Him, Robert Quinn & Carlos Dunlap played at the same High School here in Charleston SC, They do a Football camp here every Year and they Help in Local Area, So from that Standpoint I hope He plays Great. Time will tell.

I hope he brings the legion of boom instead of the legion of bust to Florida

Agreed, FF.  And here's what really kills me about the trade: the Eagles were absolutely DESPERATE to unload Maxwell and Alonso...they absolutely NEEDED to dump that ludicrous Maxwell contract.  The Dolphins had them over a barrel.  There's no way the words "first round pick" should have even been uttered in that negotiation.  And yet, this is the best the Dolphins could do.  Funny how the Titans only had to swap 4th rounders to get DeMarco Maurray, who despite a bad 2015 season is twice the player that Maxwell and Alonso are.

I'm sure the Eagles (and the rest of the league) are still shocked that they were able to dump not one but two pieces of dead wood from their roster AND move to #8 in the draft at the same time.  This is one of the more one-sided trades I've seen in the last couple of years.  To find a worse trade, I think I'd have to go back to 2004 when the Dolphins traded a 2nd to the Eagles for AJ Feeley AND traded a 3rd to the Rams for Lamar Gordon.

And before anyone says "Wait! We got two starters in this deal!", I'll just say that the quality of those two starters is seriously lacking.  I think we downgraded...Maxwell is not as good as Grimes (yet he's just as expensive), and I personally don't think the 2016 version of Alonso is as good as Sheppard.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/03/11/howie-roseman-goal-of-eagles-deals-was-to-get-into-top-10-of-draft/

“I think we were fortunate at the combine because our suites were two doors down,” Roseman said, via Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Daily News. “We’d kind of talk about positions of need and what we were looking to do. Some positions they were looking for in free agency, that they were concerned whether they’d be able to find, we felt like we had some depth there, and over the course of time, it worked out.

so had the Phins been a few doors farther away, this might not have happened? how much you want to bet that teams will be fighting over who gets to sit next to the Phins at next year's combine - and be the one to get to take them to the cleaners on a trade deal?

Eagles executive Howie Roseman said the binge-and-purge of the team’s roster in recent days was more about getting into the top 10 of this year’s draft.

so clearly the Eagles recognize the impact value of the top 10 in this year's draft, why can't the Phins?

if only Miami had sat tight, i truly suspect both players would've been cut and could have been had for nothing.

mercury22nathan wrote:so clearly the Eagles recognize the impact value of the top 10 in this year's draft, why can't the Phins?

if only Miami had sat tight, i truly suspect both players would've been cut and could have been had for nothing.

Yep, I don't know why the Phins were in such a hurry to get this deal done.  I agree that both players would have eventually gotten cut - or traded for much lower compensation.

And like FF said, this seems like a repeat of JJ trading down in the first before the draft.  That time we missed out on Randy Moss...who will we miss this time?  Maybe Bosa or Jack.  That would suck.