Maxwell - end of the road in view?

JMP wrote:Maxwell is just horrific...such a waste.  I'm not much of a Culliver fan, but he has to be better than Maxwell.  Putting Maxwell on the bench is an automatic upgrade, regardless of who replaces him.

I now have a better understanding why it was Byron Maxwell was playing so poorly earlier in the year ...

Stated simply, he wasn’t familiar enough with the defense to make it work for him.

The way it was explained to me, Maxwell played best in Seattle because they asked him to do the same thing every single play. The Seahawks made Maxwell a Cover 3 cornerback on the right side every single time.

But the Dolphins play multiple coverages and Maxwell simply wasn’t getting that.

“He has to understand how the coverage works to benefit him and he wasn’t sure,” Joseph said, “and now he’s sure. I think he knew what he was doing. But he didn’t know exactly where his help was and how each call would help him play better. It’s different than playing Cover 3. Now he understands how it will help him. And he’s playing well with his mind again.

“I told him, ‘Bro, you’re going to be somewhat of an older corner one day. And how you survive is with your mind, not your legs. So he’s learning to play with his mind.”

CB Byron Maxwell was once again the lowest-graded player in the Dolphins' secondary. After going back and forth with WR Brandon Marshall in the media earlier in the week, Marshall was able to grab 4 of 6 targets for 31 yards against Maxwell, while also drawing one penalty on the afternoon. Marshall was open a number of times, including for a TD, but Crazy Arm Fitzpatrick missed him time and again.