Hardest team to rebuild??

[spikedmayo]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

i think an underrated rebuild team is arizona

just did one season with them

carson played pretty bad then retired so im left with no qb

the offensive line is horrible
no legit rb
dont have a threat at tight end
they have larry fitz (but i traded him to a contender in the pats)
andre roberts is a free agent so you may or may not want to resign him

they dont really have any passrushers on the only notable player in the secondary is peterson, mathieu's early success in real life hasnt shown much in his madden rating

[queenie.paula]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

IMO none of them are hard if you are playing CFM because of the XP you can get with or without practice and if you need a QB then get pretty much any in free agency or wait til the up coming draft where you can get a good to great QB, I really hate the XP system cause you can make any crappy player into someone good or great, you shouldn't be able to make someone faster or jump higher...ETC, but that's just IMO

[Trelocke]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

IMO none of them are hard if you are playing CFM because of the XP you can get with or without practice and if you need a QB then get pretty much any in free agency or wait til the up coming draft where you can get a good to great QB, I really hate the XP system cause you can make any crappy player into someone good or great, you shouldn't be able to make someone faster or jump higher...ETC, but that's just IMO

To be fair, what you can substantially improve through XP has significantly improved this year. The cost of increasing stats like speed and jumping ability is extremely high and comes with the disadvantage of not being able to increase other, more important stats. I've yet to spend XP on something like speed because it is simply so cost prohibitive. I agree, it seems rather silly to be able to use something like XP to increase a player's speed (or other purely physical trait) but I imagine some people like to have that control and I think EA struck a decent balance between making it too cheap to pass up and too expensive as to never be able to do it.

[GtheQB128]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

id say the Jags. Nobody wants to make any trades for anyone on their roster, and its hard to build draft picks.

[purplerat]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

i think an underrated rebuild team is arizona

just did one season with them

carson played pretty bad then retired so im left with no qb

the offensive line is horrible
no legit rb
dont have a threat at tight end
they have larry fitz (but i traded him to a contender in the pats)
andre roberts is a free agent so you may or may not want to resign him

they dont really have any passrushers on the only notable player in the secondary is peterson, mathieu's early success in real life hasnt shown much in his madden rating

yes AZ is pretty horrid. In my Online CFM I wanted to take either them or the Rams because of course the first 2 people to pick teams took the other two NFC West teams and I wanted to show them up. But for as much as I wanted the challenge I couldn't stomach the Cardinals roster so I went with St Louis.

[dmankey1]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

What about a good team that has a decent/good defense to work with. Offense isn't a big deal cause I can work with that through play calling but im not great at calling the D.

[canesfins]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

What about a good team that has a decent/good defense to work with. Offense isn't a big deal cause I can work with that through play calling but im not great at calling the D.

The Browns have some nice players on defense.

[ajra21]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

IMO none of them are hard if you are playing CFM because of the XP you can get with or without practice and if you need a QB then get pretty much any in free agency or wait til the up coming draft where you can get a good to great QB, I really hate the XP system cause you can make any crappy player into someone good or great, you shouldn't be able to make someone faster or jump higher...ETC, but that's just IMO

Tend to agree though I don't think XP is a bad idea. Just needs to be scaled back. 1000 max for practises if players start.

[Madwolf]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

The Panthers are decently hard to rebuild.

Obviously having Cam is a big help, but the rest of the team is in shambles.

Their WR position is a mess outside of Smith, who is sure to retire fairly quickly in most dynasties.

Their O-line only has LT Gross, and C Kalil as any real contributors, and Gross is on the edge of retirement like Smith.

Their LBers are good, but both Davis and Beason are injury prone.

There are no serviceable CBs to speak of.

[RogueHominid]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

I was just looking over the rosters today for a challenge team to use and the Jags look god-awful from top to bottom, excepting MJD.

Maybe the Raiders are that bad too, but as a fan, I'm biased so I tent to see more in the cupboard there than in JAX.

[TheDelta]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

I was just looking over the rosters today for a challenge team to use and the Jags look god-awful from top to bottom, excepting MJD.

Maybe the Raiders are that bad too, but as a fan, I'm biased so I tent to see more in the cupboard there than in JAX.

No you're absolutely right the Jags are in a MUCH worse position in the game than the Raiders. MJD is a great RB ingame, yes he's injured often IRL but in my experience season ending injuries occur much less often in the game and you can control the risk by running smart with hin.

Too often, people mix up their real life opinions with Madden. Pryor isn't the most accurate QB, but that doesn't matter even half as much as in real life because in Madden, you'll be making the passes, so if you're good with the sticks, you can be very accurate with Pryor. Add the fact that he's one of the fastest QBs in the game and you have a very servicable starter.

Same goes for a lot of other players on the roster, yeah they may not be the best in the NFL, but in Madden, a lot of them are fast, which is still the most important attribute. They have a lot of holes on defense, that's true, but as far as offense is concerned, the Raiders have a very strong team in Madden.

The Jags, on the other hand, have almost nothing. Their QB isn't particularly mobile, Blackmon is slow both ingame and in development, MJD is a good but no elite back and their defense is bad as well.

[dmankey1]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

I ended up going with the Jags but with a twist. I wanted the challenge but at the same time I wanted to play with players I wanted. I went through all the rosters and found players at each position that had traits I wanted. Paying no attention to their OVR unless it was above 90, in which case I excluded them. I ended up with a team that will work for me. Most of the players have less than 4 years in the league and I have about 42M of cap space. the team is 78 off and 79 def currently and my first game was a challenge but I pulled it off 35-25 against the Chiefs. I managed to do this without really hurting any one team, I made sure I traded players with similar value and if I couldn't (because of various trade rules) then I would end up doing trades between multiple teams to balance it out. I think it will turn out interesting. Has anyone else done something similar?

[dag_19]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

With the Jags, they have Scott as a pretty good QB. Great ACC, OK SPD, strong arm, workable accuracy. His OVR is low, but that's due to his ****ty AWR. I'm in year 2 and my drafted QB went down, which lead to my discovery of Scott. Doing it all over again, I may have spent that QB pick on another pass rushing LB.


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[dmankey1]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

I like to have a solid, mobile QB so I sent MJD to the Niners and brought in Kaepernick. Still in his rookie contract so he has much less blow to the cap. I've got Blount and Bell at RB with Knile Davis backing them up. Davis brings some speed that Blount and Bell both lack slightly. Other than that, I went with a speedy group of D'backs that can recognize plays quickly. Speed at LE and RE and pure strength at DT. Balanced LBs that can pursue a RB around the corner and shut down a TE across the middle. I think I'll have a successful season if I don't have a bunch of injuries cause most of my back ups aren't that great

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[onetonmartin]

Re: Hardest team to rebuild??

Raiders are probably the most fun to rebuild.

You start with Pryor and a ton of cap space for the 2nd offseason. McKenzie has gutted all of the fat and theres some young players to build around.