[mooby]

I have a big problem with franchise mode, it sucks to the extreme. Before I begin let me just say that I play on All-Pro, in past versions I liked it the most because it's not as hard as All Madden but it's not as easy as the normal. I'm 3 seasons in in my new franchise with the Skins and I am the only team that resigns my players to deals longer than 3 years. I looked at every other franchise in the game, and all of them had no more than 4 guys signed to deals longer than 3 years, compared to 15 of my guys who had a deal longer than 3 years. Anytime a team signs a player that wasn't an original 1st round draft pick by them the deal is for 3 years or less, and the turnover in the free agent market is crazy, I estimate that 75 percent of all the players in madden hit the free agent market after their deal is up compared to 25 percent of the players in real life.

And some of it's just stupid. For example, both Carson Palmer's and Philip Rivers' contracts expired in the same year, and Palmer went to San Diego through free agency (3 year deal, go figure) while Rivers went to Cincinnati through free agency (do I even need to say it, 3 year deal). As for the 1-4 guys on each team that have a deal longer than 3 years, every single one of them was a draft pick in the first round by the team that currently has them. It is so unrealistic and stupid it's crazy.

And another gripe I have is that some franchises do things the exact opposite of the way they would in real life. The Cowboys for instance, build by the draft and add a few key parts through free agency, but in the game, they sign like 20 mediocre free agents to 3 year deals and all their drafted players once their deals are up they don't resign them. In 3 seasons they've gone from being one of the top franchises to having everyone but 4 players have a rating between 65-80, and one of those four players is Mat McBriar, and the only reason he's still on the team is cuz his deal hasn't expired yet. Every team in the league only resigns like 25 percent of its' about to be free agents, and they only resign them to 3 year deals anyways and bring in a bunch of other players for 3 year deals as well.

Overall each year the quality of the players in the league declines, most of the draft picks end up being busts and then they get cut and go to another team where they continue to decline. I'd just like to see each team have more players progress, I'm the only team that actually has players progress from year to year, all the other teams have like 1 or 2 players that progress very little from year to year.

And my last gripe is about the stats. My stats are excellent, mainly because it's so easy to play when 3 quarters of the league is shit. But quarterbacks don't put up good stats at all, usually there's like 1 quarterback that throws above 25 touchdown passes and even guys like Brady and Manning put up average stats. And I hate the running game, mainly because the best running backs in the league average about 2000-2500 yards when they are healthy for the entire season, and they also usually have somewhere between 400 and 500 carries for one season, which is entirely unrealistic.

Overall EA dropped the ball on Madden this year and I don't even know if I'm gonna want to buy it for next gen when it comes out in August because it sounds like a lot of people have issues with the next gen versions as well. And this is the last time (I hope) to be bitching about this game because eventually it's not gonna be worth buying it