TA: I can understand you asking about using Max instead. That would give quite a violent fixed rate, initially, uncomfortable at best, then TR's would keep it at that rate. My thinking was set 3, apply TR's and feather the brakes to achieve a rate that can be varied to suit. It was certainly less than Max, and used for only a short distance. I used the QRH advisory distances as a start point. Sometimes I used this with AB 2 and it seemed to work to shorten the distance just that smidgen when AB 2 was too long and AB 3 was unnecessarily short. It seemed to work and avoided a sharp stab approaching the turn off; i.e. it killed the energy early, but gradually, and then I would release my feet and allow AB's to do were thing. It was not akin to riding the brakes. The pressure I felt I was using was less than disconnect.
My query was it seemed to work, but was that an misconception or was it not even a possibility?