Madden 2005 Player Ratings!

OL has decent ratings too (despite a horrible horrible year under the steve), jacobs low, coles has a 99 in speed... rock is an 86 (too high, but no complaints), betts is 76.

tim goes from a 37 last year to a 69, great for a 3rd QB.

maybe the generosity is cause gibbs and co. make everyone better ;)

they under rated the cards WRs a bit though, boldin is only an 89? sucks for them i guess.

Reserve OT Kenyatta Jones is a 76! Wow, I'll have to take a good, hard look at this guy during camp. He seemed to move pretty good in the minicamps, but I want to see how he does with live hitting.

I agree that Friedman should definitely be higher than a 65. He's undersized and not terribly strong, but the guy is smart, uses very sound technique, and plays with a lot of heart and fire. He should only be a few points below Raymer in my opinion, maybe a 75-76.


Otherwise, most of the ratings look about right. I was disappointed that ESPN failed to recognize the absence of the true FB position on Gibbs' depth chart. They have Rock at fullback, and you can't change him to a RB. Nor can you change a TE to a fullback, which is what I did in Madden '04 with Cooley (whom I created in last year's version) and the other guys who will play H-back. They really need to provide modifiable depth chart structures to accomodate special, unique positions like H-back.

I still want to see the playbook.

I can't wait to run all my friends over with Portis!! I like the rating!!

wow, thats so awesome. I hope those are all accurate. Our team is going to be awesome in Madden. Some are al ittle generous but its what they expect they will do this year, 2k5s ratings suck, absolutly suck. Im starting to not like that game at all the more I play it, cant wait for my Madden!!!

HTTR, thank you so much for finding that. I look all the time to see if there is something posted somewhere. The Skins are going to be great in the game, McCants at a 79 for a third receiver. You can immediatly trade brunell and one of the safeties fo ran end. its going ot be awesome.

Dockery and McCants kinda got the shaft. We will just have to see when the first updates are out!!!

what makes you think they got the shaft, I thik both of those are extremely generous. Dockery was quite possibly the worst guard in the league last year, bar none. He was stepping on people, loosing game. He showed signs of not messing up towards the end of the year, but nothign great. To give him a ranking in the 70's isnt bad, they are assuming that bugel teaches him how to use that monsterous body of his.

And 79 for a third receiver is pretty good. McCants caught the ball in the redzone last year, and was clutch for us at times but he wasnt out there breaking tackles and out running people. you pretty much didnt get much out of him unless he could score. Im also glad Jacobs is ranked as a 74, thats pretty good considering he didnt plya at all.

Wow, I forgot about thrash, hes ranked as an 81, so that means technically McCants is a 4th string receiver at a 79, with a fifth at a 74. Plus McCants and Jacobs can both go up in preseason. Acutally, im not sure how old McCants is. But I tell you guys that you should start Jacobs as your number 3 guy, and trade Thrash. Jacobs can go up for three preseasons still. Gardner can still go up for the first preseason. Between Thrash, mabye McCants, a safety and Brunell you should easily be able to pick up a good end.

or you can play cheap and sign guys like Jason Guildon taht are going to be ranked in the 90's and are still free agents in the game, then trade them. But my friend and I dont do that type of stuff. We are good enough at the game that we need challenges. Its tempting to not trade any players and run with the actual roster, which I might to. But there is so much depth at some positions that you really dont need. Apparently madden fixed it so palyers dont drop like 14 just because they didnt start. Its hard to get backups a lot of stats in the old maddens.