The Miami Dolphins cut Brent Grimes on Monday after three seasons with the team.
The cornerback had an solid run with the Dolphins, putting up strong numbers his first two seasons and pulling off the impressive feat of being selected to the Pro Bowl all three years he was in Miami.
Grimes will turn 33 in July though and was set to make as much as $8million next year, so the Dolphins decision to cut an aging and possibly overpaid player made sense to fans, especially after the team acquired Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Byron Maxwell on Wednesday.
Those were not, however, the only major reasons the team decided to cut Grimes as they also wanted to get rid of the person closest to the football player – his wife Miko.
Miami Herald columnist Armando Salguero reported that many in the Dolphins organization had grown sick of Miko’s Twitter attacks of the team’s coaches and her husband’s teammates.
And the Dolphins are not alone in their distaste for Miko and her social media ways it seems, with three NFL general managers saying on Thursday they would not sign Grimes because of her behavior.
Grimes is now three days into free agency and has yet to be picked up by a team.


