What's amazing is that the people on this board are so concerned with this older veteran fizzling out, but many of the posters in this thread were proponents of other aged veteran who fizzled out and not so interested in discussing them. What happened to the dire need for the Bills to have veteran leadership?
I mean everyone including Sparano thought he was getting fired... http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/24/tony-sparano-to-official-review-play-or-im-getting-fired/
That is the funniest **** I have seen in some time. So it's not Sparano, who's the scapegoat?
The fact is Maybin is not an every down player. He's not even a '3rd down' or 'obvious passing down' player. He's an 'obvious long developing passing play where we know we can get him matched up against an RB' player. If you can get him in that position, he will pressure the QB every single time and do it quickly.
Maybin can make plays, but he can only do it one, very specific way and the play needs to be designed to promote him making the play. The Jets operate their defense in that way and are able to accommodate that.