Anything is possible, but Maxx has been very reliable & straightforward. Don't know why he'd want to start messing with us now.

And the fact is, this fits what John has shown us about himself despite what those who think he has a "winning" edit say -- he stated day one when he demanded to be called Cochran (which is why I refuse to do it) that he wanted to be "known" -- not win -- "known." And he's been playing for 3 more days ONLY never, ever to win. All we've EVER heard from him is what he can't do -- I can't go in the water, I can't dive, I can't be in the sun, I can't go to RI & duel a middle aged "b!tch" (his word choice), I can't, I can't, I can't.

He can't play an effective double agent either, so to buy himself 3 more days (again, his M.O.), he flips for real. That's definitely going to get him "noticed" but he can't be loyal & he definitely can't win either.

Student of the game, my foot. He was almost assuredly F3 with Jim, Keith, Ozzy and Dawn (and probably Whitney too) if he'd stayed loyal to Savai'i especially after they ALL decided to spare him a pre-jury exit (and he surely would have lost the RI duel to Christine -- he told us that himself). Now, I seriously doubt he makes it past F6. He's doing the Fincher "they wanted me out so to hell with them" thinking that only someone who doesn't understand Survivor at all would think -- the same reasons for wanting him gone pre-merge are the exact reasons to keep him post-merge. If he had stayed loyal, he could have pulled the "I've grown out here" card and gotten some votes at F3, if not the win itself.