What's your "How are they here?" Moment when looking at a team interested in your services?

I am old school enough to remember when Madden used to have NFL classic teams available. I believe they abandoned it as to not have to pay individual retired players outside of owning the NFL rights and access to all current players. I’d love to see classic teams back in a similar manner that NBA 2K does with classic NBA teams. Does anyone agree this would be a nice feature to renew ?

How do you pass? No matter what I do they are covered. I can rush 150 yards try PA and I get sacked instantly. My players can be 8 yards open but the second the defender touches them the ball falls out of their hands. THESE ARE NFL PLAYERS THEY CAN HOLD ON TO THE BALL. I feel like I’m going crazy.

I’ve been playing for 3 weeks now and online head to head is so awful. Had a dude chew clock for 2 straight quarters out of halftime, I didn’t get the ball once and wins by kicking a field goal. This has happened like every one in 3/4 games I play… how is that even fun? Most of these guys only run the same formation of cheese plays.

I’ve always been the guy that thought MUT was the best mode/part of madden. I spent money, grinded, sweated, and had fun. However, lately I just lost the spark for mut. I’ve become really busy with school, work, life, etc. I used to be able to play each weekly release, 1-2 hours a day, grind and sweat. Now I’m lucky if I can play 1 game a day. I just couldn’t keep up with the green of EA and the fast rate cards get outdated. It exhausted me and lowkey I just gave up and stopped playing MUT. I was wondering what I wanted to even do on madden. I just decided late at night I’ll start a dolphins rebuild offline franchise. Lo and behold it’s been the most fun I’ve had on madden. It’s like the best aspects of MUT, without the sweats, EA greed, having to worry about not being able to play on a constant basis. I slept on franchise for the longest time before I realized how good it actually is. I was so invested in free agency I almost lost track of time. Franchise just showed me how flawed mut is, sure I can’t have the best players in every spot, but I never even had that in MUT. It’s just so much more fun. It’s motivating me to lead every nfl team to a Super Bowl at least once.

Hey guys,

I just started making some videos doing a Giants Franchise Madden 27. This is episode 2, coming off a Week 7 W against the Texans! Join as I get belligerently drunk and high and play this bs game called Madden! Please watch if you have time, any engagement is greatly appreciated 🙏🙏 skip to 5:50 in the video for the start of actual gameplay. Hope you enjoy!

NFL MADDEN 2027 FANTASY LEAGUE

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Was this used every yr or does it change each year?

This is nebulous, but as someone who played the game religiously from Madden 08 to about Madden 13 - the current day version gameplay feels so uncanny and simply not as fun.

It's hard to put a finger on but an example to illustrate my point- hit stick feels underwhelming on defence. To me, this is the one fun thing about D, trying to kill the opposing QB/runners lol. I'm not asking to bring back the helment-popping-off feature, but it used to feel way way better to successfully hit stick.

This could be a mixture of sound in game too, but I liked the way the OL/DL would kinda just smash into each out in the old 08-ish era games.

Some positives, spin moves/jukes as a ball carrier are great. I also love that they have the real players from the game on the sideline (finally), it was cool seeing Cooper DeJean signal a first down for my Eagles offence.

Anyone else feel this way? I think in the pursuit of lifelike game play, there is a risk it becomes a bit too realistic and therefore tedious.

I am definitely washed at the gameplay, just to get ahead of anyone else rightly pointing this out lol.

What have they done to my boy aj

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On '27 I am so uniquely terrible at it. I put in my backup QB who has greater strength than my starter. And my o line strength is somewhere in the 80s generally.

That said usually my QB just immediately dives at the Line of Scrimmage for no gain. Ive resorted to running the wildcat for direct RB hand offs or any QB run that doesn't start the horizontal bar just give myself a chance.

That said id be open to anyone's tips. I play offline Franchise mostly.

Waiting for 27 to be cheaper.. wondering if anyone has a favorite slider set from Madden 26 for franchise mode.

Tried Sabos gameplay mod but it’s not working well. Maybe I’m doing something wrong but made it very arcadey. Must be a mess up with the latest version of the game and his last release.

Anyways, please let me know what made you had a good football playing experience!

I am a Madden player going back to the original SEGA genesis. I religiously bought Madden yearly for the last 30 years, but as of late I’ve just been playing the previous years game. I enjoy grinding in MUT and I also do franchise mode. Not having up to date rosters is no big deal for me and there are plenty of online players on Madden 26 as a great example. I plan to get 27 when it’s 75% off after the Super Bowl. Saying that , how long does EA typically support older games before then pullmaerver support ?

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Hello,

I'm French and I only know about 5% of what American football is. I tried Madden 26 to see if it was fun, but I feel like 90% of the game is loading screens and the AI playing for us. Am I right, or is this just due to my inexperience with this sport?

For some reason when he’s in the HB spot he jumps up to a 94, I’m not sure if this is a glitch or what

My punter fumbles when I hit the kick meter in the red. I usually hit it there, and have never seen this. I found it pretty funny, and it had no impact on the outcome.

Playing a game last night and in crucial sistuations the screen would jump. This seemed to throw off the timing of my play and caused me to miss passes. Thoughts?

For the life of me, I can't find EJ Smith anywhere. I'm a Cowboys fan; I grew up watching his dad and I wanna add him to the Dallas roster and build him up to be the next great Cowboys RB

I can't tell if this is the best win or the worst win of my life but I've definetly never seen anything like it

Created a team with the intention of trading my fantasy team to one team and subbing in my team builder team. Playing a game in Play Now here and there.

Is that possible? What’s with all the CPU-generated guys on team builder? Where do they go? Am I trading those guys for my guys? Now there’s a bunch of phony players amongst the ranks?